help! theres a cookie in my salad!

do you ever feel like that? like theres something that feels "wrong" and decadent mixed in something thats "good" for you?

and youre kinda taken aback, and wonder if its ok that the cookie's there? wondering who put the cookie there- to tempt or to bless?
you want the cookie to be real. to be ok to eat. ::maybe its a vegan cookie. with carob::

theres all sorts of things we put in salads to "dress them up" - why not just crumble the cookie up in there/ is that any worse? or just blatantly pull that cookie out and enjoy it.
our "dressing up" makes things more palatable- we're still lookin pretty healthy. still feels pretty healthy. and it is. but we really want the cookie. and when its put on our plate, we're not sure we can eat it. it has become a symbol of all thats bad. its not healthy enough.
im not sure where overindulging fits into my senario. so i cant go there yet. and yall cant help me cuz you dont know what im talking about, really. which is fine.
i actually just had this great title pop into my head and the analogy materialized very quickly after, and i had to get it out.