Why I’ll never have Dunkin’ Donuts Chocolate Chunk Cookies again.

You know my love for chocolate, and how it conflicts with weight loss. Well, there are some foods that I’ve built up a resistance to, and chocolate or anything that contains chocolate, isn’t one of them.

Or so I thought.

Let me tell you a short story. When I was in high school, namely sophomore year, my breakfast was a steady diet of Dunkin’ Donuts chocolate chunk cookies. They were 6 for $2.50, and I got a Dunkachino along with it. How I didn’t develop diabetes then is nothing short of a miracle. But back then, these cookies were tiny. Well, not that tiny, but compared to the ones that they sell for $1.59 a pop that are literally the size of my hand and are 540 calories a pop, they were mini-me sized. I eventually did away with the 6-cookie-a-day-for-breakfast habit and opted for something more breakfast like–bacon, egg, and cheese on a bagel with ketchup and hot sauce with a Sprite on the side–the following year. Yes, not much better, and I admit that I do get that sometimes these days, sans the cheese, egg yolk, hot sauce, and Sprite, but it’s breakfast-like.

Since that year (which was 2001), I didn’t mess with the chocolate chunk cookies. I just saw them go from “normal” sized cookies to these mutant-sized bastard children of cookies. Today, I decided to buy one just to see how it tastes. Mind you, I don’t give up chocolate very easily. I can go longer without it, but if I have a craving, I won’t deprive myself of it. That’s the bane of diets–deprivation. So I ate one of these cookies (6 of them would run me about $8, and would also cost me an entire day’s calorie intake–and then some). The chocolate isn’t worth it. I felt like total shit after that.

Guilt? No, I literally felt like total shit. Nauseous. Since these are the MSBC’s, the sugar content is about 10 times the usual amount. That was the first thing that got to me. I have a sensitivity to salt, and if something is too salty, I will know very quickly. With sweets, it isn’t as quick, but this one was like…whoosh. It got to the point where I had to stop eating it. I was on my way to Manhattan; the last thing I wanted to do was get too sick and be so far away from home.

I can strike that one off my list. Right next to McD’s 10-piece chicken nuggets. I can still eat that however; just not too much of it. I’ve subjected myself to the 4-piece.

Never say never? Yeah, I can definitely say never. I never felt like that eating anything as quickly as I did. Oh well, I went 7 years without touching the stuff. I can do it for another 50.