Cupcakes are Always a 10

You might notice I refer to cupcakes a lot in my blogs? That is because I find them super delicious. Nothing as a dessert remotely compares. I am actually not even a dessert person...don’t really care much about it in general. But cupcakes get me. Not all types either just the plain vanilla with vanilla frosting. So delicious.

Yet herein lies the problem.

I am a fairly controlled eater. Breakfast, protein snack mid morning, healthy lunch in general, fruit or low fat pudding afternoon, smaller dinner. During the week anyways. Weekends I get off track quite a bit. I am also pretty good at my food “rules”. On weekdays anyways. These rules for me maintain my weight in general. Don’t help me lose..but help me maintain overall. And I could stand to lose…but deprivation at this time and point in my life just does not sit well with me (is there ever a moment to want to deprive yourself of deliciousness?)

So one of my rules that I am pretty good at following is that during the week (not weekwnds and vacations) I don’t really break the above eating pattern in any given day….unless….

A food is rated over an 8.5 for me and/or my wanting, craving and need for it is over an 8.5. On a scale of 1-10. And that does not happen too often because either most foods I rate below an 8.5 or my stomach is not craving it at that high level because I am not hungry enough. Or both. My gift to myself is that if I want it badly enough or am hungry enough, or it is yummy enough..I always get to have it guilt free.

Again this doesn’t happen too too often.

Except that I work at a company who is obsessed with cupcakes.

And cupcakes are always a 10.

Honestly in the last year here every corner I turn there is a cupcake and the super delicious ones too. Every brand we launch we get offered a cupcake. Every new renovation that is done there is a celebration of a cupcake. Every act of social responsibility comes with a cupcake. Birthdays in the office? Cupcakes. Desserts before Christmas? At the coffee machine cupcakes.

What happened to boring old strudel and coffeecake? I used to be able to pass that by without a bat of an eyelash.

Or a plain old pen with an inscription? Or some kind of stale white cake or something?

Ok now let’s be clear..If you are reading this and have anything to do with decision making at this particular company don’t get all excited now ok? Don’t go changing anything just because there happens to be a blog on it? I am a talent that likes to be nurtured with frosting is that clear enough? Although this pattern is not too great for the waistline is very very good for retention and motivation. If you take the cupcakes away I would personally be in danger of looking for a job elsewhere. I have come to expect them!!

So no I have no resistance when it comes to cupcakes and they will always be a 10 (only the yummy vanilla ones with perfect frosting that of course my company buys because they are always the best at buying the best).

It does not help matters yesterday when a colleague and I go to another cupcake celebration and I take a napkin and take two and offer her one and she says:

“No I can’t do it. Too tempting. I am full because I had a lot of carrots for lunch and carrots are high in sugar”

Carrots!! You are full of carrots? You would give up this delicious cupcake because you had one carrot too many in your stir fry? I honestly almost asked her if she felt like she needed to lie down in the nurse’s office. And then I ate both cupcakes myself obviously.

(yes she weighs about 6 lbs so clearly she is doing something right,,but still..get a life skinny minny girl!)

That did not compare however to the time when my colleague from Swiss and I stayed at once of the fancy smancy hotels that greet you with a plate of yummies as you check into your room. Mousse, mochas, cupcakes, angel cakes fruits etc.. On a perfect little tray.

I practically ran up to my room as I knew what was awaiting me and threw out the whole tray right in the garbage and kept the two cupcakes. When we met later for dinner my colleague laughed at me for that and said “I did the opposite-I threw out all of it except the fruits”

And you could not have saved the tiny little cupcake for me and brought it in your purse (oh ya you are a guy..ok stuffed it in your pocket?)

Is this guy perfect? Is that 6 lb girl perfect? What is wrong with these people??? Don’t they like food at all?

Anyways thank goodness that chips and cheesies and cheesecake and ice-cream don’t have this same effect on me or I would be one big girl. Thank goodness it is small harmless cupcakes that get me going in this manner. And hopefully by next year the cupcake craze the world is going through will turn around and change into something less of a 10 (I don’t know if that is a hope, a prayer or a fear I have)

My other obsession is cups of grapefruit and hey guess what..I am on a new medication and grapefruit is now a no no and can’t be eaten. How unfair is life? To deny me this 70 calories perfectly healthy daily treat?

Some people in this world love food and others would just as well pop a pill and get the meal over with. Clearly for me food is a joy. Especially a good cupcake washed down with a cold and delicious glass of milk.

Suddenly I am hungry. You?