A New Problem…
My wife is a teacher and today was her last day before the break. Normally all of the candies and cookies she pulls in are more than welcome. This year, as you know, is different. She just sent me an email detailing her haul and was it ever a good Christmas. Along with the standard boxes of chocolates and decorative cookie trays and tins described above, she got a third world counties economy worth of gift cards to various eating establishments around town. She is already planning a night of gluttony out at Zio’s Italian Kitchen courtesy of happy parents and their students. In a controlled environment this dieting bit is a snap, but given my weakness for all foods Italian and the fact that at the end of the meal the bill is taken care of, as if I were Vito Corleone or something, I could be in for a belt loosening night. What can I say? I am only human. Pass the Cannelloni.
Does anybody else have this predicament to deal with? I could re-gift the cards but it just wouldn’t feel right. I have spent 33 years with the sole focal point of my existence being the search for free food. I can’t just give it up once I have found it. That would be akin to Ponce De Leon finding the Fountain of Youth and walking away(my obscure history analogy of the day). It just ain’t gonna happen. Double the exercise tomorrow.
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3 Responses to “A New Problem…”
1 The Captain 20 December 2006 @ 3:53 pm
I am amazingly good with self-control in this area (I’ve only just found this out). If it were me, I’d just go and eat something from the “healthy” menu. If you can’t make yourself do that, re-gift them.
2 The Pirate 20 December 2006 @ 4:03 pm
I have been looking over the menu and am eye balling the grilled salmon “brushed with a delicious red grape balsamic reduction”. That should clear the calorie requirements if I lay off the mashed taters covered in butter.
Isn’t Balsamic vinegar already a red grape reduction of sorts? Sounds a little redundant to me.
3 The General 21 December 2006 @ 12:00 pm
Yeah, I’ve had this problem before. I’d either eat the healthiest thing they have (most of those places have salads, or fish, or soups, etc), or just save the cards to use when you’re having a cheat meal. In the times where I was in my best shape or losing fat, I’d always have one cheat meal per week. That’s not for everyone (The Cap, for example, doesn’t seem to need one to keep his sanity, which is great), but it definitely works for me. If nothing else, it keeps away the feeling that you’re a complete outcast and you’ll never eat like the “normal people” again. If you limit yourself to doing it once a week, it ends up being a good balance between utter glutton who eats like a pig at every meal and someone who takes it to the extreme and deprives himself of anything indulgent.
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