This Stuff is Like Heroin

Not that I’ve ever tried heroin, but I imagine it’s even more addicting than my favorite snack of all time:

This is my Waterloo — snack-wise, anyway. Good old, Smartfood cheese popcorn. I LOVE this stuff. I can eat an entire family size bag by myself. Now that’s pretty disgusting that I’m even admitting that here. So, when I rejoined Weight Watchers recently to get rid of some of those pregnancy pounds, I vowed to never allow this stuff in the house again. I seriously think that Smartfood took the place of cigarettes, after I quit smoking in 2003. Of course, ciggies were fat free, and Smartfood is NOT.

Except….I love it so. And so does my husband. My dearest hubby told me I should NOT deprive myself—just try to exercise restraint. Heh, easy for him to say. But you know what, he’s right. So I bought some tonight–on sale, buy one get one free. *gulp* Talk about playing with fire…

An important facet of Weight Watchers is observing portion control by reading the label. So I read the label–and nearly cried. One serving –1 3/4 cups–is 4 Weight Watchers points. Not bad at all really, considering one serving of Doritos is DOUBLE that in points. So as far as snacks go, cheese popcorn is not the worst stuff I could be eating. But still–can I stop at JUST ONE SERVING? I measured out exactly one serving, using my trusty measuring cup. Found in my cabinet, a cute little bowl that holds EXACTLY one serving worth of Smartfood. So I poured it in there, and took hubby’s advice to ’savor every bite’, eating it slowly. One.kernel.at.a.time…

I did exactly that. And you know what, I actually DON’T feel like shoveling the rest of the contents of the bag into my face! I feel satisfied. Wow. Maybe I’m being silly posting about this, but Smartfood is the MOST tempting snack to me–something that could definitely knock me off my program if I let it. But I didn’t. Not today, I didn’t.

I passed the willpower test with Smartfood….for me this is HUGE.