Watership Down!

Why does my stomach start screaming “I’m hungry” the moment I decide to change my dietary choices?  It is as if my body goes into panic mode.  Every cell, every fiber of my being screams “Dairy Queen Ice Cream!!”  I recall in earlier years when I decided to diet.  That first day I was off to a good start but something would always happened before nightfall—I blew my diet.  Our house was close to a Dairy Queen so my reasoning was “I’ve already blown it so I might as well have a blizzard today because tomorrow I’m getting back on that diet and who knows when I’ll be able to have another blizzard!” Ah the resolve, the reasoning, the idiocy of it.  In one week I gained 10 pounds because I was going on a diet!

A friend recently gave me sound advice (if only she had said it 10 years and many pounds ago).  I’ll share it because quite frankly I had never thought this way before.  Here it is:  don’t beat yourself up about an infraction; ask yourself how quickly can you get back on track once you’ve blown your diet?  Ta Da!!  Now why didn’t I ask myself that years ago?  Because it goes against my grain, that’s why.  Just like my stomach craves chocolate when my head says carrots, I am not programmed to automatically think logically.  I get it.  I’m a girl that wants to have fun and then pay the consequences later…like the credit card.  I guess that is a different topic for a different day.  This blog is about making right choices…the ones that won’t land right on my hips or back.

I am not planning to blow my eating plan today but if by chance I do, I will remember this sage advice and get back on track as swiftly as possible.

For now, I will satiate my body and drink more water because I KNOW I am not hungry. Water, water, water.  Just call me “Strawberry.”

Quote from SparkNotes: Strawberry -  The only rabbit to leave the warren of the snares. Strawberry is larger than the other rabbits but he knows little of the wild. Eager to learn and help the others, he designs the Honeycomb and shares his knowledge of building with them (my emphases).

Yep, just call me Strawberry.