My Cheetos Experience

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I mentioned in a post last week that I had a few bags of snacks left over from

our trip and I had looked at them and thought that it would take us quite a

while to eat them all.

The other night I got hungry before bed and usually when that happens, I'll have

some cereal. I went to get my cereal in our pantry and there were those snacks.

I saw the bag of Cheetos which I had bought on our vacation and never opened. I

really wanted some of those Cheetos but told myself that I should have the

cereal, it was late at night and I didn't need something so fatty late at night.

I continued to get my cereal ready but kept really, really wanting those

Cheetos. I had once read about Geneen Roth having a similar experience in

Breaking Free From Compulsive Eating where she had wanting something and had

something else and ended up grazing all night because she wasn't satisfied.

Since the Cheetos kept bothering me and I REALLY wanted them, I finally told

myself that I'd better just go ahead and have them if I wanted them that badly.

I sat on the couch, opened the bag, took a Cheeto and closed my eyes while I ate

it. It was absolutely divine and I loved it. I continued to slowly eat the

Cheetos with my eyes closed and after about 8 or 10 of them I noticed that they

didn't taste as divine anymore and I was able to stop eating them and put the

bag away.

I had read of similar experiences but had never thought that it could happen to

me. I'm so thrilled that it did.

Just thought I'd share.

Sharon