When Indulgence is a spoonful of peanut butter, something in your life has gone terribly wrong.

When indulgence is a spoonful of peanut butter, something in your life has gone terribly wrong. But how to identify the wrong turn?
Oh, that's right. Perhaps it was the fat-flush diet. Or it may have been the "30 days to a thinner you" diet plan from that magazine that you hate. I don't think that diets are for people like me. By 'people like me' I mean, people who will dip anything (and I do mean anything) in honey mustard, people for whom a large pizza is a meal for two, and people who may or may not have had a weekend-long celebration to honor the introduction of the big mac snack wrap at Mcdonald's.
It's not that we don't want to be thin. We do, and are in fact not-so-secretly abhorrent of fatties. But when a plate of cheese fries arrives at our table, no amount of abhorrence can keep us from gobbling them down like there's no tomorrow.
One would think that simply giving up cheese fry binges and honey mustard obsessions would be enough to make us fatties feel good about ourselves, and yet... it isn't. I've found that when attempting to diet, I go all out, balls to the wall.
I recently found myself in an eating regimen that included no bread, no caffeine, and very little fat. One of the few fattening things I was allowed to eat was 8 almonds. Just 8. And that was meant to be a 'treat.' When you're sipping hot water (no tea bag, no coffee grounds- just hot water) waiting for it to be three o'clock so you can have the long-awaited 8 almonds, you realize that something just isn't right.
I think that perhaps the hardest thing about dieting is the people around you. I became hyper-aware of the people around me, constantly eating cupcakes, fudge, candy, you name it. It was when I started fantasizing about taking a cupcake from a coworker's hand and shoving it in her face that I admitted to myself that I had a problem. I think you can monitor how your life is going by what you consider an indulgence. Indulgences should be normal things like cakes, cookies- anything of the desert persuasion. If your indulgence of the day is anything in the nut or legume family- it may be time to reevaluate your life.