I had the day off and have been working on my menu plans for the next few days. I'm about to do phase one of the south beach diet. I'd eaten a solid breakfast and lunch already. A couple hours after lunch I was sitting down to watch a DVD and realised I was peckish. Movies means snacks. I ignored it. I watched half the film and had to pause for a bathroom break. My hunger had evolved and was raging at me and I couldn't stop thinking about the ice-cream in the freezer. Oh just a little I thought to myself already imagining eating it direct from the carton. I couldn't control the thoughts and had given up fighting it almost immediately. I opened the freezer and saw it. Double churned vanilla ice-cream. Now what could I have with it? In a small part of my mind I was aware that i was on the brink of a disastrous binge but when I opened the fridge, there was my salvation -
A mini can of diet coke.
Genius! I slammed the freezer door shut and ripped the baby can from it's brethren of six. I had bought them two days ago thinking to use them as a means of distraction when I faced temptation. I didn't know how soon I'd need them.
I was so pleased with myself I squealed and had to refrain from jumping for joy (my downstairs neighbor complains). I jumped on the bed a little instead.
Bad binge averted. Resolve tested and found wanting but my resolution to distract myself from temptations worked beautifully. I'm putting a gold star on my resolutions chart :)
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