Lucky for me, RMOMROX reminded me of an issue that often comes up when you're trying to eat healthier -- how do you deal with those foods that you just CANNOT resist?

For instance, I can go a good, long time without eating sweets. But put some tater tots in my face, and it's gorge-city!

Everyone has one of those treats that they just can't say no to, or just can't say "that's enough." The pull is just too strong. Luckily, there are strategies to help cope with those temptations.

Let's talk about those fluffy, crispy, delicious tots. Used to be, I would pre-heat the oven, and dump the contents of the bag onto the cookie sheet. When they were done, I'd shovel pile onto each family members plate. Always, a handful or two remained. When clean up time came, I disposed of them - right into my belly. Can't let them go to waste, right?

Now, before I bake them, I check the serving size, and dole out just the right amount for each of us. No leftovers!

That's one technique - don't have any more on hand than necessary. Another is to make those temptations inaccessible, or even just more difficult to get to.

I have a friend who loves chocolate. This temptation makes Halloween a very trying time. She locks the candy in the trunk of her car until it's trick-or-treat night! That doesn't seem like a big deterrent. But the fact that she would have to put on her shoes, and a coat, get her keys, and walk out there in the cold, is just enough to do the trick.

For other people, it might mean keeping the ice cream in standalone freezer out in the garage, or stashing cookies behind the soup. One could even freeze individually-portioned cookies or pieces of cake, and then take one out in the morning, to defrost for after dinner. Sometimes removing the immediacy is all it takes.

Some folks just don't have any of it in their house in the first place. I have another friend who loves salty snacks. Her husband does too. But he isn't ready to give them up. Just having them in the house is too much temptation for my friend. She told her hubs, that if he wants his chips, he can buy them, and keep them at work.

Many parents will say that they MUST have sweets, junk food, and other "kid food" in the house, because they have kids. But if you think about it, if you don't want to eat junk, do you want your kids to eat it too? On the other hand, we want to make them happy. We get tired of begging them to eat that broccoli. It's a tough row to hoe.

But that, my friends, is a topic for another day.

In other news, 3.8 lbs of the 5 pounds I gained over the holidays are already gone! In fact, when I logged my weight this morning, I got a little slap on the wrist from Weight Watchers, saying I was losing too fast.

I'm not too worried about it. I played two hard games of soccer yesterday.That earned me 25 Points -- Yikes! It also left me a bit dehydrated. I wouldn't be surprised to see a pound or so come back in the next day or two.