Why is it . . .

February 9, 2005

. . . as soon as you get serious about losing weight, life starts

throwing sweets in your face? LOL! I mean really, is it some sort of sadistic test? Dh and I

are ½ a week into phase 2. Doing great! Losing weight,

feeling good, liking the food. I’m exercising up a sweat and life

is looking up! Now the obstacles.

First we have MIL’s

chocolate fondue valentine’s day party this

weekend. OooooooooooooK. My MIL is great, but I’ve always considered

Valentine’s Day to be a time for lovers, yk? Whatever, we can deal.

But then a week later I’m attending

a kid’s birthday party with my children. Ok, again, I can deal.

That same weekend, I somehow ended up getting

roped into hosting Grandma’s birthday party. Ok, I can deal.

But this vent is really about tonight. We

visited my Grandma. Grandma has a humongous sweet tooth (which she will not

admit to, lol!). There were five adults and 2 kids

there and keep in mind it wasn’t a special occasion, just a visit. Well, we

had one cherry pie, one panatone and a huge platter

of six (yes, 6!) varieties of cheesecake. Cherry is my favorite pie. And I love

cheesecake. But I know there is no way in heck I would have stopped with one

piece. I mean come on, there were SIX varieties, you

can’t try just one! The old me would have sampled them *all* and had a piece of pie to boot (gee,

and I wonder why I’m so overweight, LOL!). Someday I hope to be able to

have a piece of something sugary and not end up on a binge but I know I’m

not there yet.

Instead, as soon as dessert was served I

went into the kitchen and washed the dishes from dinner. That way I helped Grandma clean up and didn’t

have to watch everyone eating cheesecake : )

We came home with my kids bouncing off the

wall from all the chocolate Grandma gave them and I tried to secretly hand off

to my mom a bag of candy Grandma gave us to take home (unfortunately, it turned

out the 2 year old had seen it first so we had a little meltdown, but with his

breath still smelling of chocolate I didn’t feel too bad for the kid!).

But I’m feeling great about tonight.

I feel like if I can stare cheesecake and cherry pie in the face and not give

in and pig out, then I can do anything : )

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