GOOD LORD I never realized how much food revolves around my Christmas!
Someone (a nice neighbor) hung a beautiful home made pound cake in a bag on my door! My ex in-laws gave me gifts of giant can of peanuts, giant tin of popcorn, gift certificates to Starbucks and McDonalds. Good lord I haven't eaten at McDonald's in 10 years.
My sister and her boyfriend is talking about a fresh ham and fried turkey (in peanut oil!) for Christmas Day. No less than 3 friends wives gave me homemade cookies, fruitcake cupcakes and fudge as gifts.
I've been to 2 Christmas parties this year and trays of goodies are thrust in my face and not taken away until I tell them no 20 times. One friends wife would NOT take no for an answer until I tried one of her sausage balls! I swear!
Even the kindly elderly couple I do some fixit stuff for sometimes invited me for lunch today and she say "Oh I know you are on a diet and I am a bad friend but just one won't hurt you!" then she put a whole tray of home made peanut better cookies with chocolate on top of them right in front of me. I ATE TWO!
I am being buried in an avalanche of food! LOL! And it's not over yet!
I have a yearly ritual for Christmas Eve with some of my family where we eat those Lil Smokies in BBQ sauce and eat Grandma's family recipe Toll house cookies and wash it down with Egg Nog. We have done this for as long as I can remember.
I never thought about it before but a LOT of people who give me gifts give me inexpensive food items???
On one hand I feel guilty about complaining because I AM lucky to have a close family and lots of good friends and I know there are billions of people in the world who will go hungry Christmas Eve but on the other hand ...
I wonder if family and loved ones look at me and see a rather rotund fella and just figure I wanna be fed???
I am doing my best to resist but BOY IS IT HARD!
And it ain't over with yet I still have to make it to New Years!
I started on Dec 1st and I have been doing so good, off to a good start on living a healthy lifestyle.
My BIGGEST problem is not them it is ME I am so weak... I always say no but if the person persists I almost always give in and I always tell myself "Well one won't hurt" and then I am SOOOO PO'd at myself later!