A Life Less Overweight

Well, I’m not doing quite as badly as I had been on the weekends before, but weekends are still killing me. Luckily the scale hasn’t moved, but if I continue this it will. Over the course of the last two days I’ve eaten a cookie, a brownie, and a small piece of cake. NOT on South Beach. And now my sugar cravings are back. My husband was telling me his doctor when he was a kid lost something like 100 pounds by smelling food and convincing himself he’d eaten it. HA!!! I smell food and I convince myself it’s OK to eat it. I know I have the willpower to avoid these foods, as evidenced by this summer, but it’s slipped away and I’ve got to get it back.

And if you buy pre-packaged granola bars or something like that, you might not want to read this section. Yesterday I was eating a South Beach Diet bar. At the store, I reached into the back of the shelf b/c I wanted a box of the chocolate ones. Well, as I sat there eating yesterday, a small brown bug with a spiky tail was crawling on my leg. EWWWWWWWW!!!! It definitely came from the bar! I asked my MIL who’s a nurse and she said prepackaged foods with chocolate in them that have been sitting on shelves for a while can have bugs or worms in them. She said they aren’t harmful, it would have died in my stomach acid, but that is absolutely disgusting. I looked it up on line and it turns out it was a beetle larvae!!! I liked those bars, and I am sure they aren’t the only ones like that, but I will not be buying those again. I was so grossed out- even J. couldn’t finish the yogurt he was eating. Shit, I’m getting the willies just writing and thinking about it.  BLECH!!!!!!!!!!