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For some it's a compulsion. Maybe it can be controlled, maybe not. For the woman you're talking about, maybe one piece leads to another, and an uncontrollable slide. The silly thing about the chocolate incident for me is that I couldn't stop it. I should have chucked them, flushed them, but no, my solution was to finish them so that they would be gone. I know, not rational, but true.
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Understood... absolutely. It's still all about the balance, isn't it? For some, that balance means "NO CHOCOLATE" because it sets off a slide... I can't do cheat days (or even full cheat meals) because I fall off the wagon. I can handle a little bite here and there (or even dessert sometimes), as long as it's mixed in with my day, so that's what I do... Balance doesn't mean that everyone can have treats - it means that we all have our own balance point for eating and exercising, and we have to find it for ourselves (through, in my case, lots of trial and error and I'm still not completely there!). FWIW, I just had to decide to stop buying beef jerky. Great l/f protein source, but I can't seem to stop at one serving (or even 2)... so I won't buy it even though I love it.
Glad you're figuring out what you can and can't handle...
And Karla - glad to know you were kinda sorta kidding - you're pretty super-human as it is with your discipline. If chocolate-flavored cottage cheese was as good as the "real thing" to you... I can't even imagine!!!