Starling Fitness: Daily writings on Fitness, Diet, and Health

Last week I wrote an entry about how when you want a cupcake, eating a fiber muffin just won’t do. I suggested mini-cupcakes:

• Starling Fitness » Mini Cupcakes

Of course, there is another option, but the thought is so hard for me to deal with that I didn’t even think of it when I wrote that entry. Eat only a quarter of a cupcake. Worse still, throw the rest AWAY!

This is one of the hardest things for me to do.

Maybe it’s because I was starved as a child and the thought of only eating a quarter of a cupcake when I could scarf down the whole thing just seems like sacrilege to that still starving child within me.

I have wanted a REAL cupcake every since the cupcake fad back in July. Seriously, I’ve wanted a cupcake for MONTHS without eating one. For New Year’s Eve, we made some using a recipe from the famous cupcake bakeries in New York. I had to see what I had been missing.

On New Year’s Eve, my sister did something shocking. She cut a cupcake into quarters and only ate a fourth of each flavor (we had three). I just watched her do it in disbelief. She didn’t really care for any of them, so the whole night, all she ate was less than one cupcake. I ate three, by the way…

So, when we were down to the cupcake leftovers, I tried it. I had eaten one cupcake a day for a few days, trying to keep my intake at a healthy level, but I was low on points that day. I had about 200 calories left. I remembered my sister cutting her cupcakes in quarters, so I tried it. I figured I’d eat a fourth and if I wanted more, I would eat a half.

Funny thing, is… it actually worked. After my quarter of a cupcake I felt just fine. I left the rest to eat later, but by the time I came back to it, it was stiff and stale. I took a picture of it and then threw it in the garbage can. Ironically, throwing it in the garbage was FAR harder than just eating a quarter of a cupcake.