| This piece of chocolate cake was just sitting there | | | | have read to help me back away from it. I remember |
| under its protective glass dome beckoning to me. It | | | | something about going to take a nice long walk. That |
| was a beautiful piece of cake--dark brown devils food | | | | sounds good to me. But was I suppose to take that |
| covered in a rich thick glossy fudge frosting. Actually, I | | | | long walk before I ate the chocolate cake or after? It |
| did not have to eat it because I could taste it already. | | | | is true that if I had gone for that walk as soon as I |
| Quickly I did a calculation to see how I could fit the | | | | saw that cake it might have kept me from eating it. |
| calories for this piece of heaven into my daily calorie | | | | The diet gurus tell me that exercise would have gotten |
| intake. If I eat it, I will have to starve the rest of the day. | | | | my endorphins going and I would feel happy and |
| This losing weight is hard work and I really need to lose | | | | content and not wanted that cake. When I hear that, I |
| weight fast to be ready for my high school reunion in | | | | sometimes wonder if they have ever eaten a really |
| August. | | | | good slice of moist chocolate cake? |
| Oh well, I might as well eat it. If I don't, I will continue to | | | | I have also read that if you do a puzzle or clean your |
| want it all day and feel frustrated and unsatisfied. And | | | | bathroom to distract yourself that it will keep you on |
| if I do, I will feel guilty and wish I had been able to resist | | | | track. If I had cleaned the bathroom, I probably would |
| it. So now what do I do? Let me think about what all | | | | have thought I earned the reward. |
| of the psychologists say about this situation. | | | | I get the part about doing exercise after eating it. That |
| First, I am not suppose to let it get me down. So I | | | | is probably the one for me. If I take a nice long 3 mile |
| broke my diet! Now I am suppose to think why I did it | | | | walk keeping up a good rapid pace, I will burn off part |
| so I won't make that mistake again. Was I stressed or | | | | of the calories and rev up my metabolism. It will get |
| angry? Are there social pressures that pushed me | | | | me back on track and I will forget my big |
| toward that delightful confection? The only social | | | | transgression. I certainly do not want to fall into the trap |
| pressure I can think of is how I would like to look great | | | | of feeling that I broke my diet so now I will just forget |
| in that new outfit I bought for the reunion. Oh, and there | | | | it. No, I will get right back on it and just keep watching |
| are all the bathing suits I want to wear this summer as | | | | every bite I eat. I will wear my sensational new outfit in |
| I lounge by the swimming pool. But shouldn't those | | | | August. You know, I think I read somewhere that if you |
| have made me want to resist it so that I am able to | | | | break your diet that it can make you even more |
| lose weight fast? | | | | dedicated to stay on it afterwards. |
| Let me see if I can remember some of the things I | | | | |