more on eating

Reasons why going to work is hazardous to my health:

• free donuts at any given moment
• free breakfasts on Friday, usually involving donuts
• oversized tin of butter cookies within 3 feet of pod quadrant
• honey-roasted peanuts within arm's reach
• lightly salted nuts, also within arm's reach
• tantalizing Twix in vending machine
• free pizza from oh-so-generous great grandboss
• coworkers taking requests for what kind of cookies and candied nuts to bring in on Monday
• leftover cookies from Fabulous Holiday Party, left on counter at work & intended for consumption by coworkers, not self
  
• fresh baked muffins in each morning, only a 2 minute walk away
• Starbucks drinks, made on campus in deli car
• persuasive coworkers who like happy hours
• platters of cookies and soft drinks at each marketing town hall meeting
• Swiss Miss hot chocolate and cider packets in break room

My weakness for all of the above items spells disaster, the results of which I can now OFFICIALLY SEE in the strange new folds of my abdominal region.

All this, and yet I hope the holiday season never ends...