Sepe. 9, 2009 Diet Blog

It's 10 pm..."do you know where your children are?" My son is fully grown and married so I expect him to be at home or at least on his way there to be with his wife. Me? I'm just in...and what an evening it's been! My day began as any normal day would have since I began this diet. I told myself I looked nice today; had a cup of grapes for breakfast- going fully conscious into the 'fruit on an empty stomach' suggestion that I'd heard, to see if it made any difference.
It did- it was refreshing to have cold fruit with my coffee for some reason. I really enjoyed it. I went to work and had various discussions about dieting, which I will tell you about in a minute and the two snacks were 6 of those rice cakes at ten and a cup of carrot sticks at three. Lunch was Smart Ones pizza and a plumb.
The carrots were the last food that I would see for the day. After work I had an errand to do and then I was off to get my hair done. It looked just lovely after two hours of pampering at the salon. The stylist jokingly said that I was too pretty to go home and fall asleep waiting for my husband to return from teaching his scuba class. I felt the same way and called my BFF to see if we could hang out together for an hour or so. With four kids, a full time job and school, I wasn't sure if she would be free, but for me it was worth a shot.
She wasn't free. She was in class and her husband had the youngest boy at football practice. A tree had gone down on the end of her street and the entire block was without power. Her 15 and 12 year olds were at home alone. She was frantic at the thought of them lighting candles without an adult present.
The salon was minutes away from her house so I naturally offered to go and oversee things until she or her husband arrived. She was very relieved. I admire her for being able to do all that she does and still think of everything that four kids need. The kids were glad to see me. The older one was hungry. Opening the refrigerator was a bad idea, so he had taken out a bag of chips and they were having those for dinner as I arrived.
My BFF would have been frantic at the thought of that. They had also lit about 17 candles. The house smelled of every scent one could possibly imagine! There was nothing we could do about that, I offered to get fast food, and we hung out together until my BFF came home. I still have not eaten myself but I did share the rest of the wine from the BBQ with her. It amounted to about one and one half glasses. We talked for a bit. My love for her as a person grows every day still, but that's another story.
The reason that I'm bringing the situation up is because I didn't have a plan or a tactic formulated for an emergency situation. Though I had the wine, I did not have dinner so I guess it evens out so to speak, but really that is clearly not the proper way to go. I will have a piece of the roasted chicken when I'm finished blogging though because I am hungry.
My co-worker sort of had a diet problem along the same lines. She is the hot dog friend, to give you a better view of things. She was so good and so careful during our work day. I asked how the rest of her dieting had went yesterday. Her answer was, "after the bag of potato chips, it went just great."
We both laughed obviously,but I asked her what had happened. She had no plan formulated for that time of day that has become her 'food comfort' zone. She is not really hungry at that time. Things are so hectic for her right now that I believe she is using food to comfort herself. I suggested replacing that habit with going to the sink and drinking a huge glass of water while preparing something healthy. She liked that idea. Shes a special person. Her life and schedule are terribly grueling right now, yet she wears a smile and always has something nice to say to everyone.
That brings me to my next story. One of the girls from across the street was working in the office next door to mine and came in to say hello. We've become really good acquaintances and are moving closer towards friendship. She read this blog and joked that she would be writing stuff like slapping herself in the face...and how much dieting sucked and things like that. She is a young hearted, funny lady but it struck a cord with all of us as we talked. To get through this, we must remain positive. Anyone can do well in ideal circumstances but we have to try to keep positive even as life throws those curve balls in our direction. Things are not always going to be ideal. We need to think on our feet. Dieting is hard. It's okay that we know that. It's okay that we say that. It's even okay if we think that. It's true. But it's not okay to dwell on it. Move forward. See the results down the road a bit. Visualize it. It will happen! It'll be worth it. And if we can break this code as Kirstey Alley so aptly put it, won't that be wonderful?
So, the day was hard. Curve balls right down the line were thrown at us, right, left and sideways and nobody hit a home run today. Okay. It's not the end of the world. Tomorrow is another day...and luckily, we have each other.
I will sign off on that note. Let me shout this message to you: YOU LOOK THE BEST THAT YOU CAN FOR TODAY! TOMORROW YOU WILL BE THAT MUCH BETTER! DO NOT LET YOUR PERCEPTION OF YOUR BODY STOP YOU FROM HAVING FUN! Have a great night! See you tomorrow. ;-)