{Sweet turned sour in .1 mile}

I walked by the rack with these lil' puppies on sale for 2/$1.00.

I thought, wow....haven't had those in.....I don't know......like forever!

Hmmmmm....I've been good and responsible. 

Can't remember the last time I had a soda, or a donut, or a full size candy bar, or even real sugar in my coffee.

Yah, go ahead girl!!!!!  Give yourself a treat! 

YAY for me!

I am salivating before I can even get my groceries unloaded.

I grab the little package of youth memorabilia, and take them into the driver's seat with me.

Use my teeth to make the perfect dispense-o-matic pour hole.

"Damn these are good!"

"MMMMMMM....why do I deprive myself of these loves????"

Now, I'm putting 3 and 4  bits in my mouth at a time, thinking:

Licorice is generally fat free....AND, these are just little itty bitty things.....They are "Cherry", so I'm pretty sure I'm getting some good vitamins.  I'm still being semi-responsible........

right????!??

With my last two in the package, and a mouth full of red joy, I read the "nutritional facts".

AND!!!.....AND!!!!.....AND!!!!!!!!!!

I just ate 220 calories from the parking lot to the main road.

kckkackkkuhhlkkkkkk

((choking))

What The........????!?!?!?!?!?

Do you know what I could have had for 220 empty calories???

~3 beers

~sugar cereal

~a special coffee from Starbucks

~probably even a Big Ass Burrito!

All of which would have been totally worth the side effects.....

I'm not a freakily obsessed calorie counter, but I do know what 220 calories of crap does to my gut!!!!!

It's NOT a pretty sight, let-me-tell-you!

I should have known there is nothing good about a candy that has IBS in its name!

Now I'm gonna have to cap my consumption for the rest of the day.

So much for my Mexi-food yum fest and the XXL margarita I was planning on consuming in honor of Cinco de Mayo.

Maybe I'll compromise and just do the shot of tequila!

os maldicen puntas de caramelo!!

translation:  curse YOU candy nibs!!

((fist pumping to the sugar Gods))