Why the ice cream is in the garbage...

I have never done this before so I don't know why it happened last night but I am happy with how I remedied the situation...

I found myself eating ice cream by the spoonful directly out of the carton and I probably finished close to half of the 1/2 gallon before I stopped myself and threw the whole carton in the garbage...  It was that slow-churned light ice cream - 2 points for 1/2 cup - but still I had waaaaaaay more than 1/2 cup.  Very disturbing. 

I have heard people at WW meetings talking about how they used to eat a whole pint of ice cream.  But I never did that.  I would eat sweets before but never go on binges like this.

I had brought the ice cream to my Mom's house to have as dessert.  It was her birthday and I made her a pistachio ice cream cake and I don't like pistachio so I brought my own ice cream.  I wasn't hungry but I had some of the ice cream while she had her cake.  Then I just went on this weird binge with sweets.  First cookies then when I got home and was putting stuff away I opened that ice cream container and got a spoon and....  it was crazy.  There was no logic to it.  I felt satisfied - actually, guilty because I had two servings of the ice cream at Mom's and then went on the unexplained cookie binge - so I really can't figure out WHY I went back into the ice cream when I got home.  Wow, this is scary.  I want to be able to have that kind of stuff around and control myself around it but...how?  I had a similar experience with these new Reeses snack packs I just discovered.  Someone on the WW online message boards suggested that in order to avoid eating more than one at once, I should label all the bags with days of the week and only eat it on that day.  I did that today and it worked.  I ate the "Monday" bag.  I had kind of forgotten about the bags actually.  Then I got up this morning and was packing my lunch, thinking about how it's Monday and I hate Mondays and I thought "oh yeah, I have a Monday bag of Reeses snacksters..." 

I am also feeling a little depressed.  And stressed out by my schedule.  And overwhelmed with all that is going on in my life right now.  But I wasn't thinking about that last night.  There was literally nothing going through my head when I got out that container.  Will have to reflect on this for a while.  Obviously there is something deep down within me that makes me go on these sweet tooth binges.  I must get to the root of the problem before I can come up with a plan to manage it.  Until then, that ice cream is comfortably in its final resting place as far as I am concerned.