Candy Corn

I have been staring at a bag of candy corn sitting on my television for the past two or three days. Let's get something straight, candy corn is one of my many weaknesses. The fact that I haven't been able to eat it so far has been a miracle. Usually I dive into them the day that I get them, but I'm trying something new. I'm trying to restrain myself.

I've always wondered why humans have these cravings for things, why we are all so diverse in our likes and dislikes. For example, I could like pizza and be craving it, but my friend Jenna could hate pizza to her very core and be craving a big scoop of ice cream instead. Yes, I did learn in psychology that our hypothalamus is telling us what our bodies want and need, but why those specific things? This leads me to my next question: why is it so hard to not eat it?

When our bodies want something, our mind tells us to eat it, to tear into it like there's no tomorrow (which there might not be if you eat too much of something awful for you). We, as humans, need to condition ourselves to not just dig in, to sit back and let the desire for it build, and then it will be all the more satisfying when you do it. This is what diets are for, I suppose, and I think I finally understand them. By only rewarding yourself every so often, you find that you love that food that you crave even more than when you ate it every single day.

Back to the candy corn, now. I have been trying an experiment. It is a diet of sorts (mainly just a break from candy corn). I ate an entire bag in two days, and now I bought another one. I will see if I can wait for awhile (perhaps about 5 days) to even begin eating it. Then, I will try to eat it slowly, to savor it. Perhaps I will even buy another bag afterwards and not eat it for a very long time, like two weeks. This will hopefully make my love for candy corn even stronger.

I love the holidays. Thanks for reading! Happy almost Halloween!