Chocolate, My Nemesis
After 5 days of perfect low carbing, yesterday I screwed up. The first part wasn’t so bad… I walked to the bank and then on my way back, I stopped at Quizno’s and ate one of their 200 calorie Sammies. (Oh man, was it good!) I ripped off about a third of the super yummy flatbread to save on carbs, but it was really, really hard to throw it away.
The problem with a few carbs is that they lead to wanting more carbs… by the time I got home, I was crashing and looking for something else to eat when I found them… in the top cupboard over the sink… the chocolate squares I bought at the after Christmas sales.
Justifying to myself that chocolate is an antioxidant (and really good for you. Really!) I practically inhaled most of a square. My daughter saw me eating it and said, “Are you allowed to eat chocolate on a diet?”
Shamed, I gave her the rest of it. But then… there were 7 others waiting in the cabinet. Much to everyone’s joy, I quickly handed them out to the 4 kids I had last night (my nephew was over) and got rid of most of them… but one of the dark chocolate squares was still there. Yes, I caved. I ate one and a half squares of really decadent chocolate.
While my intention was to do extra exercise to mitigate the damage, it didn’t happen. I ended up sitting on my rear watching Project Runway most of the night. And… ahem… eating whole grain, low fat quesadillas. Maybe one too many of those too.
Staying off the scale today because I don’t wanna see!
February 7th, 2008 at 8:51 am
LOL, gotta love your daughter’s picking up on that. Don’t beat yourself up too much, just move on. You’ll do better today.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:21 am
My 5-year-old is very, very interested in my diet! So I’m trying to be careful what I convey to her… so many mixed messages about body image and eating and fat out there these days.
I’m focusing on the “healthy” part when I talk to her about dieting, because my weight now is not best for my health, especially with a long and extensive history of diabetes in my family.
But yeah, she pretty much watches everything I eat now! She’s my little watchdog. The minute I start to put anything in my mouth, she appears asking, “Is that ok to eat on a diet? Is it good for you?”