It’s Girl Scout Cookie Season and It’s Only $3.50 for a box of cookie bliss
How can you resist?
Not many do for over 200 million boxes of cookies are sold each year! How can you support your local Girl Scout troops AND enjoy your Favorite cookies without sabotaging your fat loss results?
1. Moderation
Isn’t this term always used when it comes to eating the foods that derail us from our fat loss results? Yep! And for good reason.
You see, eating cookies – or any sweet treat for that matter – is not what prevents results. Rather it is how much and how often you are eating them.
When you choose to implement a sound nutrition plan, eating foods that support fat loss at the very least 80% of the time, then having a serving of cookies here and there will NOT cause you to gain weight.
Eating cookies after every meal, in between meals or every day….in addition to other poor eating habits is what causes weight gain. When you get your box or two or three of Girl Scout Cookies, decide right away how they will fit into your nutrition plan.
2. Portion Size
A Fat Loss Nutrition Rule of Thumb….never eat right out of the box. This applies to healthy and not so healthy foods. Why? You Lose Track of HOW Much you are eating!
To prevent overeating your Girl Scout Cookies, portion them out. Just because the box or sleeve is open does it mean you keep eating. Grab your snack size baggies and pre-portion them all out ahead of time.
3. Cookie Calories still Count
It does not matter if a cookie is fat free, sugar free, suddenly has no trans fat or is made with real Ocean Spray premium cranberries…cookies still have calories!
FYI on Trans Fat….Companies are only required to disclose trans fat if there is more than 0.5 grams per serving. If you choose to eat more than a couple servings you are eating trans fat.
Take a Look at My Favorite Girl Scout Cookie….Thin Mints!
A serving size of Thin Mints is 4 cookies
Calories: 160
Fat: 8 grams
Saturated fat: 5 grams
Sugar: 10 grams
Ever eat a whole sleeve of these? Be honest…for I have. An entire sleeve of thin mints comes in at a whopping 560 calories and 36 grams of sugar! Not exactly fat loss friendly! These cookie calories can quickly add up!
Read the label and be aware of the serving size.
4. Savor The Moment
Girl Scout Cookie Season comes around once a year…so savor them. Do not grab them by the handful and much them down mindlessly – you are missing out!!!
When you decide to have your Girl Scout Cookie Treat avoid any and all distractions. Be in the moment. Chew slowly and even announce how dang yummy they are! I do this quite often….with any yummy food actually – oh the looks Patrick and Tyler give me ; )
5. Out of Sight, Out of Mind
If boxes of cookies are sitting out on the counter, the kitchen table, the dresser in your bedroom…..of Course you are going to be constantly tempted to reach in and grab a few, over and over again. And this is the type of eating habit that gets you into trouble.
Along with pre-portioning and planning out WHEN you will have your Girl Scout cookie treat put them away UNTIL then.
My favorite place….and actually enhances the flavor of Thin Mints… The FREEZER! Keeps them freshly tucked away out of sight!
When it comes to your Fat Loss Plan and the yummy treats that tempt us throughout the year you absolutely CAN enjoy your favorites….just takes some mindfulness and planning ahead.
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The freezer is where ALL of the cookie boxes go when they arrive at our house. We’ve been known to dig out a box of Thin Mints for the following winter holidays! (No, we don’t get *that* many!)
Something neat too is that you can purchase boxes of cookies to donate. So you can support the Girls, but not take the cookies home. Our forms had a column for just such purchases!
I too hide mine in the freezer! I actually think I still have a couple of boxes from last year still in there…less accesible, so less consumption!
Frozen Thin Mints are my favorite. Samoas run a close second. I’m a good girl and only have one or two occasionally.
Samoas all the way! But Thin Mints are a close second (hubby Loves these in the freezer!)
I was a Girl Scout for a long time. I remember saving up our allowance come Girl Scout Cookie time
After making it to my goal weight through healthy eating and exercise (and of course your help Holly!) I think twice about them. Do I grab a box or two? Absolutely. I’m pretty sure it’s against my religion to say no to Girl Scouts. But I buy them once a year, enjoy them and that’s that. During the rest of cookie season I either practice walking in the other door and not making eye contact with the Girl Scouts or go to the store during school hours
No question at all – THIN MINTS!!! I could eat an entire box in one sitting, although I wouldn’t do that now. But when I was a kid… Those were the days!
I’m like Elizabeth, I don’t even make eye contact with the girls selling the cookies outside Walgreens. What’s up with that?
Frozen thin mints dipped in hot tea
Holly-I know a while back you mentioned you avoid wheat due to the adverse affects you seemed to have from it. Do you then still indulge in a pre-packaged cookie every once in a while? I, too, have been gluten free since Sept, and I cringe at making any exceptions for fear that the negative affects will rear their ugly head again (my biggest is poor complexion). I look forward to hearing your response.
Samoas are the way to go, I don’t know if it gets any better than this!
I can usually enjoy just one or two cookies and put them away, but I’ve found with the Samoas, it is just easier not to order them! I can’t keep my hands off of them. Even if I try to hide them from myself, I find I think about them while cleaning etc. around the house so I grab another and another until they are gone.
The other types of girl scout cookieas are great too, so I make sure to order the types that I can put down after one or two. And I always just order 2 boxes so that I am supporting my girl scout friends but the cookies disappear quickly.
Yes! I love the Samoas, too! I just picked up 2 boxes from the girls selling them at Safeway last Saturday. My strategy was to serve them to our dinner guests that night for dessert so one box would be taken care of. The other one remains unopened until my husband is here to keep me accountable:)
Thanks for the tips Holly!
Oh I too love my thin mints frozen, and yes guilty for eating an entire sleeve. Thank you for the guidelines. Funny I do not gain weight during the holidays, only during girls scout season, hmmmm.
Thin Mints all the way . . . Love those little green boxes of heaven!
These are actually what have been keeping me ON my fit yummy mummy plan. They are my planned indulgence! One thin mint is forty calories. I have one —can you believe it — just one!– thin mint cookie each night. Call it my “me time”! Ha!
I like the Samoas, thin mints and the lemon ones. I eat a few at lunch sometimes. Just take two or 3 for a treat. And then you don’t have the whole box with you.
Oh I love February When it’s time forthe Girl Scout Cookies.. I am a Huge Fan Of THe Thin Mints & Yes freezing them is the best way to go . but ‘m a Huge Peanutbutter & Chocolate fan So the dosido’s & Tagalongs are right there in the top of my list too & yup freeze them too.. & I like the shortbread ones too I think they are the trefoils. My Husband likes the Samoas but I’m not into the coconut. I’m about ready to go back & get more of the Tagalongs & dosido’s for me soon before they are all sold out so I can pack my freezer for the yr.lol
My girls are both Girl Scouts so we usually by a lot of cookies but this year I let the girls each pick out one box of their favorite cookies and then I donated 8 boxes to our troops Hometown Heroes (we have a friend that is stationed in Afghanistan). This way we got to enjoy a few cookies but we also supported the girls and our military troops. It feels great to not sit down and eat a whole box of cookies! No guilt! Yay!
We have Girl Guides, but it’s all the same. The mint chocolate cookies are my favorite, too! I have such a hard time not eating them if they’re in the house, so I have a few one day and send them to work wih my husband so they don’t tempt me.
Being a Girl Scout troop leader as well as Cookie Mom I have to say this is near and dear to my heart since we are wrapping up our sales. My favorites are the Samoa’s and Thin Mints. And for anyone who has ever inhaled a whole box of Samoa’s (not hard to do) it’s about 1,125calories. 2 cookies is a serving at 150 calories. Yikes!!!
We encouraged this year anyone who was watching their weight or was a diabetic to give the Gift of Caring and we had lots give to it. I will be so glad when boxes upon boxes of cookies are out of my garage. Their cries for me to eat them are getting louder and harder to resist. Hopefully they’ll be gone after this weekend.
my daughters are GS and I have already been the victim of the cookie. Love Thin Mints, but PB patties and PB sandwiches are my favorite. I have them in the extra freezer and it is my reward for after the challenge and lent to enjoy some with a cup of tea.
I’m with Holly. Thin Mints are my fave, but I only have two at a time as a special treat. I have never thought of freezing them. Will have to try that; they will make a nice summer frozen treat.
I’m am looking forward to getting our cookies. Our daughter is in Girl Scouts, she’s 7 and due to the snow wasn’t able to go around knocking on doors, luckily she called around all of my friends out of state and asked them to donate the cookies to the military troops. Within 2 days she was able to get 99 boxes donated and a few more sold. Everyone should enjoy girl scout cookies. I plan on freezing ours too. She also recommended to everyone that they buy the cookies that did not have HFCS and Partially Hydrogenated Oils.
Thin mints!!! Ever since I WAS a girl scout (and I’m old)! My husband has two boxes on order from a friend at work as we speak ~ the good thing is that he WILL eat a sleeve at a time, so I only end up with 2-3 anyhow… But I have found since I originally lost the weight that I do MUCH better if I NEVER take a bag/box/package of any snack and go sit down with it. I always get my little napkin and measure out a portion I think I would like, and would be in keeping with my program, then put some of it back. Happy cookie-time everone!
I’m a girl scout leader. So not only do we buy cookies to support my daughter and her troop, but right now, we have a dining room full.
Samoas are my all-time favorite. You can’t find anything like them elsewhere. I could easily eat half a box at a time. The good thing is, they’re the only ones I really like. So I buy one box knowing I can’t resist and when they’re gone. They’re gone!
I’m soooooo jealous… we don’t have Girl Guides or these yummy sounding cookies here in Greece!!!
Samoas…yummy but I enjoy the thin mints also. My husband recently bought five boxes of Samoas, he donated one to the military, we gave one to my parents, ate one box and still have two boxes left. I’m quite proud of myself for not over indulging but I’m looking forward to eating some more soon!!
Yup, Thin Mints in the freezer, my all time favorite! And I too have eaten a whole sleeve at a time. Not recently though
My favorites are the Lemonades, however they are very addicting and have 150 calories in 2 of them. I too keep all the cookies in the freezer but that doesn’t seem to work too well since I love them cold and know they are in there! We are almost out of cookies and I am not buying more, (my daughter is a girl scout) unless they are something other than Lemonades, thin mints or Samoas!
Hands down ~ Thin Mints!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the thin mints, but I never heard of puting them in the freezer. It’s been a long time since I’ve had girl scout cookies. Just got back from India 5 months ago.
My favorite girl scout cookie has always been and will always be the Peanut Butter Patties. Chocolate and peanut butter on a crisp cookie. Like heaven!! I’m so glad they are only sold once a year cuz I could get into some major trouble. My big help is I only allow myself to but X amount of boxes for the whole family so they are treated like GOLD.
dang it! Another favorite treat exposed!
Hi! My name is Arlyne and I have eaten an entire sleeve of girl scout cookies….now onwads and upwards toward the 12 step recovery program…
Thin mints, Samoas, Tagalongs…triple threat!! I actually threw away the last two GS cookies (I know, a sin!) because no one was eating them and the box had been in the house since Feb! But I’m not worried because I know they’ll be back next year!
I don’t care for the Thin Mints. Otherwise’ I like them all. Remember you can’t eat just one. Hey, I didn’t have any choice; my mom was a troop leader and I was a Brownie and a Girl Scout.
Ya know….I gotta be honest…I cannot buy Girl Scout Cookies. I have zero willpower when cookies are involved. Even if they were in the freezer I’d find a way to over do it. So my strategy with Girl Scout Cookies…….I just don’t buy them.
You guys get all those different kinds? We only get the mint ones and the ones that are chocolate cookie on the outside and chocolate icing in the middle or vanilla cookie on the outside and vanilla icing in the middle. Maybe just as well because the Samosa ones look delicious. I would be into the peanut butter ones as well.
I do like all of them equally. We just don’t buy too many boxes and store them in the freezer. Frozen mint ones are pretty good too LOL. (Dangerously so!)
Samoas are my fave!! Been selling or eating Girl Scout cookies since I was 8yrs old. And the freezer is my safe place for them, its takes alot longer to eat them frozen.
I am with those who can eat a box in one sitting!!! Will power, what will power….If I know where it is….I know it will en up in my stomach and showing on my belly!! It is best to not let it into our house and in my sight! Oh, those thin mints….just thinking (especially reading) about the sweet cookies I know I can’t resist…they got me beat. Also, the freezer never stopped me, I also have such great intentions and thing I can do it, but I end up sick because I finished a box.
I was a girl guide here in SA for many years but we never had to sell cookies – thank goodness otherwise I’d probably be so much larger than I already am.
I am so glad that this my daughter’s school is selling flower bulbs – daffodils maybe pretty but they’re not appetising.
But those thin mints sound divine.
I love them all! I used to be a girl scout, so I tend to order 2 of every box. This year, I waited to be asked to purchase cookies and only 2 girls asked me. I ordered 2 boxes only! Guess, my freezer will be empty this year.
I’m an original GS cookie classic – the shortbread cookie. Then again, I was also a Lorna Doone fanatic as a kid, so that may be part of it.
Cookies to the freezer – absolutely. I get a wide variety when I do buy because the girls (age 24 and 20) get their hands on the order list. We all agree to freeze them and then just take a few out to enjoy with herbal teas or hot chocolate.
I too have had them go from year to year. I have a big storage chest freezer, so they keep just fine.
Mmmm. Shortbread cookies and fresh-picked strawberries in June. It doesn’t get any better than that.
Definitely the tagalongs- the perfect cookie! Creamy, delicious peanut butter w/ a crunchy cookie and chocolate! I also love the Samoas and thin mints. I DO let myself eat about 1/2 a box of the peanut butter ones- but I will only buy about 2 boxes, and after that I let the rest of the family have them. I figure If I’m really good the rest of the day and work out, how bad can once a year be? I have much more willpower w/anything else- those tagalongs are just IRRISISTABLE to me.
I bought 2 boxes of Samoas. They came just before the beginning of Lent. I ate 3 cookies then divided the rest into little snack bags with 4 cookies each for the kid’s lunch box. It lasted for 3 weeks! They got 1 bag as a treat one day a week. I have given up sweets for Lent and it has been pretty easy……..now if I gave up pasta…HA NOT EASY