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2008-07-11 4:44 PM

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Subject: The vending machine is evil!!!!!!!!!!
I don't regularly eat junk food, but just now I wolfed down a Hershey's bar from the vending machine.  BAD!!!!!!  Every once in awhile, the chocolate calls to me.  I try to tell myself it's not that bad, 230 calories, but for some reason I feel way more guilty about it than I will about the giant beer I'll probably have later.  


2008-07-11 5:38 PM
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yes most deffinately. i hate that damn thing.
2008-08-12 9:36 AM
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The vending machine and I are on a first name basis.  I used to spend $10 a week on crap from that darn thing.  There is a lady in my office that has that ever-guilty chocolate craving every once in a while and her solution is to keep FatFree Chocolate Pudding cups in the fridge at work.

2008-08-12 10:20 AM
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I had the same experience with a Twix bar yesterday.  Every so often, they start calling my name and I have to have one.  I hate the vending machines.
2008-08-12 10:24 AM
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Well, at least you won't be sitting at your desk fantasizing about it all day, then run to the store after work and buy five. Wink

We all give into the vending machine demons sometimes... 

2008-08-12 10:26 AM
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mmmmm...fat free chocolate pudding with some peanut butter. I keep a box of Cheerios in my desk. It keeps me from hitting our vending machine. I go there for a sugar rush to get me through the last hour of a 12 hour day when I am out of my cheerio stash.

Time to pick up some trail mix from Wild Oats.



2008-08-12 3:09 PM
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Thankfully the vending machine at my office has stood empty for months and the candy on the desk people have left the company so I've been saved of late.  But I have been known to run to Sonic for an ice cream cone during lunch when I'm really having a rough day...
2008-08-16 3:03 PM
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My solution? Don't have any spare change or dollars on you. And always have a more healthy option as a snack - a stash of oatmeal squares, or some carrots, or whatever.

 

Don't sweat 230 calories every so often, eventually you'll sweat them out

2008-09-04 3:11 PM
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I guess i"m lucky.  I dont like sweets.  But i am still overweight.. I love appertizers...  Does not matter what kind..  Chicken wings are my fav.. I can eat a whole vat of them...  I say the appertizer portion on the menu is EVIL.... Anybody else???
2008-09-05 2:40 PM
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Thaitri - 2008-09-04 3:11 PM

I guess i"m lucky.  I dont like sweets.  But i am still overweight.. I love appertizers...  Does not matter what kind..  Chicken wings are my fav.. I can eat a whole vat of them...  I say the appertizer portion on the menu is EVIL.... Anybody else???


Mmmm...potato skins! Mozzarella sticks!! Fried raviolis!!! Yup...I'm a sucker for appetizers, too. I do try and avoid them, however. Usually I attack the bread basket first. But in regards to the OP...yes, vending machine(s) are evil. We have 6 of them at my work (I work at a college). One is just ice cream, another one is sandwiches and other assorted crap, and the remaining are your basic chips/cookies/candy variety. On the rare occasion that I succumb to the vending machine urge...I tend to stick with something like Twizzlers or pretzels. Yes, I actually try and justify that Twizzlers are healthier than M&M's since they have no fat! LOL Yeah, right.
2008-09-05 3:51 PM
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I have been known to succumb to the chocolate in the vending machine. Fortunately, it is not convenient to my cubicle.

BTW, if you haven't tried unsalted, plain nuts - you must try. I am amazed at how different the flavor is in unroasted cashews versus the oily, salty kind. So good! I have been snacking on those and dried fruit when I have a craving for potato chips or chocolate.


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