Let them eat cake !! |
To this point, I feel I have done well. I have followed Bob Greene’s book to the tee. I have increased my activity level. I have eaten three meals a day. I have refrained rorm alcohol. I have even got my husband and daughter exercising regularly. As I continue to peruse the book, I seem to have missed the chapter on birthday party eating and most specifically birthday cake eating.
As I have said before, I love dessert. Maybe I have not been clear. I loooove dessert. I would rather eat dessert than anything else. If given the option, I would eat a 1500 cal slice of turtle cheesecake and fast the rest of the day without regret. (ok, that is not healthy, so usually I eat that and everything else).
I love dessert so much I went to cooking school to become a pastry chef. Not for a career, but to make the prettiest and most tasty desserts possible. I can make just about any dessert known to man. It is a form of relaxation to me. This is all great, but my downfall is the tasting. I have never made a cookie, cake or brownie that I have not tasted prior to it leaving my hands.
Friday is my son’s birthday and he wants one of “mommy’s special cakes”. I am pleased and honored that my desserts are treasured by others as much as by me. My one thought is how to make this cake without having a slice. It has been three weeks without straying from the diet. To this point, I have been able to hold temptation at bay. One side of me thinks I should not have even one bite. The other side of me is figuring out the calories and how long on the treadmill it will take to burn them.
I need some help. What should I do?
Veronica
January 25th, 2007 at 6:19 am
If it were me I would have a tiny slice. I would eat it very slowly and then stay on the treadmill a little bit longer. Good luck with your diet, I will be following you guys and trying to lose some weight of my own =)
January 25th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Veronica–you have to have a little bit because you not eating cake does not reflect your real world…it will only make you crave it more and then completely blow it with 5 pieces. You also want to enjoy the party…as you will many times over in the next years. Moderation is something so hard for us all to comprehend, but 1/2 a piece won’t kill you and 1/2 hour running on the treadmill will burn 300 calories. Turn on scrubs and you’ll be done before you know it.