Week Long Experiment

I've been trying to lose weight since the end of college. It's been a struggle and I've had my ups and downs (literally). I have been to a psychologist, nutritionist and I did Weight Watchers for 4 years. I had gained weight my senior year of college when I moved off campus and enjoyed ordering in with friends. My first real job (where I still work) has candy. Not crappy candy, but Snickers and Twix and Krackels etc... This has been a nightmare. I can't even count how much candy I've had the last five and a half years. It's gotten worse since we downsized and the candy is right down the hall. I need an outlet; a way to talk about it and keep myself from gaining more weight, so I have started this blog. It's really just for me to ramble on about me. Me and my horrible writing skills.
I decided yesterday to photograph all the food I eat and post some of it to show myself I'm doing well. I have also decided I will not eat any more candy. How will she do this you ask? How, when a psychologist, nutritionist and WW could not? The answer is simple. I will take the candy back to my desk, any amount I want, and then put it in a giant ziploc bag. It sounds so silly, but the thrill I get when I grab the candy is what I love. The anticipation.  I have been doing this for two days now and It's working great. I ate only one Snickers on the first day.
It is never a matter of hunger, I always have healthy snacks. I can actually see the candy piling up in the bag I keep in my lunch tote. My Week Long Experiment is to discover how much candy I normally eat in a five day work week. I will take a picture of the whole stash, then divide it into five piles to represent days and then into groupings of 2-4 (the number of snack size candies I normally eat at once). It will be interesting to see what happens.