May 9, 2011

I can’t believe it has been 6 weeks since my last post.  I guess it’s true what they say, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”  I have intended to write but just haven’t gotten around to it.  In the process, I also haven’t gotten around to keeping on a healthy eating schedule.  My amazing sister in law came to visit and brought See’s candy.  That’s the equivalent of giving a meth addict a new pipe!  It started with the See’s, moved to the pie store and ended up with ice cream from Snow Goose.  Now those of you from this area or who have visited in the summer know that Snow Goose is the home of the 1 pound ice cream cone, literally they weigh one pound.  I think that’s where one of pounds came from.  I have gained 3 pounds since I last wrote.  What’s that?  I can’t hear you over the snorting pig noises in the back ground.  Seriously, I made it through lent giving up sugar (except for the weekend, one does want to be balanced) and then came the crack candy and the food addict in me threw caution to the wind.  Now it is not her fault, how would my sister in law know that a simple gesture of candy would send me spiraling down the staircase to hell?  After all she is thin, beautiful and short of a fascination for Dr Pepper and scones with lemon curd, she can handle anything.  I, however, can’t be trusted with an entire box of candy.  It starts out with I can handle this, I’ll just have one and then moves into well, she is visiting and I wouldn’t want to be rude and not take her for ice-cream and somehow it ends up with a feed bag on the end of my nose thinking OMG, what have I done.  Well, the good news is I caught it at three pounds, not 20 and today I am back on track.  With a little luck, a whole lot of prayer and the house purged of all things chocolate, I’ll lose those three pounds by the end of the week.  Wish me luck!