I went grocery shopping yesterday after a full day of work (so I was a bit tired). Even before I got there, I’d decided that I was going to buy myself a treat. I was thinking a brownie of some sort. So I started looking at the different options, which all, of course, have the calorie counts. I wasn’t really expecting to consume quite that many on one smallish item. So I decided against that.
But I did run across something in the cereal aisle that looked interesting, so I bought a box. It was “Girl Scout Thin Mints” cereal – not sure who makes it, but I know it is a “limited time” production. I love Thin Mints and I love snacking on cold cereal, so I figured it was a good bet. Anyway, I opened them on the way home, since I didn’t have a brownie to eat.
And I ate, and ate, and ate, and ate them. One after another after another. I’m sure I had at least four servings of them, one handful at a time, before I got home and put them away. I would have been better off just buying one of those 500 calorie brownies and enjoying what I was really in the mood for. Because, although the cereal was really, really yummy, it wasn’t what I was really craving, so it never quite satisfied me. But I kept trying, yes I did!
When I got them home, I measured them out into ONE serving bags, which I can use as a reasonable snack (100 calories) when I have some extra calories left at the end of the day. And I learned the lesson that it is better to just eat what I am craving than try to substitute something close just because I think I’ll save calories. Because in the end, it may not.
That’s a great lesson!