Anti-Wonka
I am developing a kind of nasty “ex-smoker” attitude towards people eating sweets. Everyone’s got giant slices of cake for dessert and I’m thinking “I guess if you think you really need that to be happy, go ahead.” Giving them guilt trips and stuff. I make jokes about wanting it but I really don’t. I especially don’t want any healthy “fake” desserts; if I am going to eat ice cream I want real fucking ice cream (I’ll settle for frozen yogurt) not some phony, low-carb, Shemp cream. Same goes for Whole Wheat Chips Ahoy: I’d rather just not have any cookies, or just make it really count when I do have a cookie– like once a year I eat one of those marshmallow Pinwheel things… those things kick ass.
Looks like getting healthy is just another way for me to ruin everyone’s fun!
I don’t mind eating the fake CarbSmart “frozen dairy dessert”. I know it’s not the real thing, but it doesn’t make me miserable and it doesn’t make me gag. It’s actually not that bad…it’s not Bruster’s or Cold Stone but it satisfies me for the moment and I don’t feel the slightest bit guilty afterward. I don’t want to be so strict on myself that it sets me up for a binge. And the whole grain Chips Ahoy may not be so bad. Everything else these days is changing from overprocessed and bleached flour to whole grain…maybe the taste isn’t as altered as you may think.
I’m not saying you aren’t right. I’d rather have real ice cream and real cookies, but that’s what caused my weight gain in the first place. I’m not going to turn my nose up at any attempt to make delicious foods healthier.
Woah, I didn’t realize how long this “blurb” was. I’m gonna move it to the main page.
Whole Wheat or not, Chips Ahoy aren’t anything I should be eating a lot of. I don’t find myself craving that stuff so much, but I am worried that eating some healthier version of what is essentially junk food is going to make me miss the real thing that much more. I don’t feel like I am in any danger at the moment, but I also have a lot more to weight to lose than you do. You could probably go back to white rice at this point and be fine.
White rice is going to be a “sometimes” thing. I can’t eat just a serving of it…unless a serving is a whole plate full. I’ll eat it at my parents’ house or with the Kabuti, but we’re gonna have a brown rice house!
well we still have a giant bag of white rice in the cupboard!
I am going to have to step up my exercising at some point and I am not sure how I am going to go about that.
JAZZERCISE!
i was thinking weight training of some kind.
Does all this dieting mean that I
A) am not going to need my elastic pants for the turkey leg-a-thon at Thanksgiving
B) I should expect continual harassment by Justin for anything, in general
C) If I want Chips Ahoy I should just buy them for J. and take comfort in that they won’t go to waste when he denies them and I eat them?
Kim has a bloodthirsty obsession with turkey WINGS actually.
You can always rely on B.
If you bought me cookies I would not eat them.
Shemp Cream is permanently locked into my vocabulary.
“Curly Joe” Cream would have required more explanation.