tomorrow
Posted By Sherry on March 2, 2007
Last week I promised my sister-in-law Suzie that I would stop my low-carb (read: high-fat) eating program. I had committed to a full year of good behavior with only one hot chocolate a week for my splurge. But she convinced me that consuming high volumes of fat is very bad for me. After all, she just lost 65 pounds by eating a diet consisting almost entirely of pasta and potatoes. So here I am at the half-way mark—having accomplished monumental feats of self-control such as on Thanksgiving, passing the potatoes, dressing, corn, gravy, candied yams, and pumpkin pie to my neighbor at the table and serving myself only turkey—doing a total restart on some other food mentality. I’m dismayed at how easily and quickly my resolve can shrivel. Tomorrow I will make new eating choices. I will make a list of appropriate foods and I will go out and buy them. I will forgive myself for losing ground. I will regain control. Tomorrow.
It’s still today and I think we have a pint of Haagen-Dazs peaches & cream ice cream in the freezer. Care to join me?
Ordinarily, I would have joined you in a heartbeat but…I’ve been banned by my doctor from most dairy products, a significant inconvenience. My hat is off to anyone with diet restrictions, self imposed or otherwise, which I’ve rarely experienced and now suffer under. There is nothing on earth more reminiscent of my childhood than peaches and ice cream. I hope you enjoyed it enough for the both of us!
I am far from a trusted source for nutrition as I sorely lack self discipline, but isn’t proper nutrition all about the balance of food types and groups? Grains are good and we need them; fiber (dietary and soluable) is good; dairy is (usually, unless intolerable by one’s biology) good; varieties of meats are good; and fats can be good. Trans/hydrogenated fats are man-made and no-so-good, but good nutrition and health, IMO, can’t be about making sure you cut some such item out of your diet altogether. The resolve and self-control must come from consuming the right-sized portions and right proportions. Right? Kick my shin if I’m wrong.
And when I decide to follow my own words, I’ll let you all know…
Our dieting philosophies are similar: It always begs the questions, “what kind of ice cream sounds good tonight?”