What Was I Thinking?

Yesterday one of my cute little students held up a plastic sack to me and said, "Here's your Girl Scout cookies you ordered, Mrs. T."

Oh.
Crap.

Those were the first two thoughts in my mind.
I remember ordering them in November, in a moment of weakness.  I wanted cookies then.  And she's one of the sweetest kids I've ever had.  It was hard to say no.

So I didn't.

I said yes.
To two boxes.
Of my very favorite Girl Scout cookies:  Thin Mints and Peanut Butter Bliss.

Why is it, just when you try to get ahold of your life, and really become disciplined, that terrible, evil temptation comes barging in your life in the hands of an 8 year old?  Well, maybe that's not how it happens for you, but it did for me.

So, I did the only thing I could think of at the moment.
I locked them in a closet.
It worked for the duration of the day.  Out of sight, out of mind.  I didn't think on them again until I had to open up the closet at the end of the day to get my coat and purse, and then there they were, staring at me in all their glorious Girl Scoutyness.

Because the sky was pouring down buckets of snow, and my windshield wipers kept freezing up so I could barely see, I did not have the manual dexterity to break into the box of cookies while I was driving, which is exactly what I did last year when I bought Girl Scout cookies.  Thank you crappy weather for helping to save me from temptation.

As soon as I got home, I put them on top of the fridge, still wrapped in the plastic bag, until I could figure out how to consume them without going crazy.

I counted the points for a serving of each delectable type of cookie:  4 points for two of the peanut butter cookies, and 4 points for four thin mints.  Wow, that's 8 points if I want to enjoy both of them.

I had enough points to eat the cookies if I wanted...but I wouldn't be able to eat dinner.

Choices.
Choices.

I chose to eat dinner instead.  And I'm glad I made the responsible, mature, adult choice.
I went to bed feeling satisfied that I didn't give into the temptation, and determined to make a plan for fitting them into the next day's food lineup.

So that's what I did today.  I planned my daily food intake around being able to have 6 cookies.  It was awesome.  When I finally had them today, along with a cup of fat free hot cocoa, they were deliciously exquisite.  I even placed them ever so delicately on one of my best Japanese porcelain plates so they would even look pretty.  I savored every single morsel, and I didn't have to feel a bit guilty because I had counted them and tracked them, and I had enough points to eat them.

Dorian-1, Temptation-0