This week I have been on vacation. My goals for the week were to drink more water and exercise. It is Friday and so far this week I have gotten up four days at 5:00AM and gone to a SPIN class. Good for me. I have also started to drink a lot more water. Good for me again. I’m glad I didn’t say one of my goals was to eat less, because that would have been not so good for me. Turns out I picked the wrong week to have lots of free time because I have been suffering from the
PMS-Sweet/Salty-I-got-Have-it-Even-Though-I-don’t-Need-It Syndrome
Too much information for you I know.
If you’ll recall, Tuesday evening I nearly had a meltdown for some ice cream. Haha, get it? Meltdown…ice cream. OK, I’ll move on. Fortunately I was able to blog and Beck my way through the urge. Well, the next day was the 4th of July. FatHubby and I went to see my sister’s new house. My Mama had made a special request for FatHubby to bring the fixin’s for his Famous Margaritas. So of course we complied with her wishes. Long story short… I drank margaritas, ate a hamburger with the bun and topped it off with some cookies and cream ice cream. None of this is part of my EATING PLAN.
In the past this slip-up would have been enough to send me over the edge into a non-stop smorgasbord of M & M’s, french fries and beer (the Holy Trinity if you will.) Honestly I am proud of myself for knowing when to stop. I only had one serving of all the bad things, except the margaritas. When I got home, I drank a lot of water and didn’t have anything else for the rest of the day because I wasn’t hungry. I think that is a definite GOOD FOR ME!
I think it is time I made a confession. PMS has made me do a lot of crazy things when it comes to food.
In my old life I would go to the grocery store to get stuff for dinner. I would buy a bag of powdered donuts and eat the whole thing on the way home before FatHubby could see me. My drive home is only about 5-10 minutes. This is on top off whatever greasy, cheesy crap I had bought for us to eat for dinner and the ice cream I got for us to have for dessert.
Whew, I believe that confession was harder for me than posting this picture. While I’m at it, I might as well make another confession…. I didn’t only do this when I was PMSing. I would do it very often and the donuts are just one example of this.
This is the part where all of my readers make me feel better and let me know that I’m not the only one that has been a “closet eater”. Anonymous comments are welcome. Confessions??….
ANYONE??….
ANYONE??
8 Comments
July 6, 2007 at 12:27 pm
I know you have heard this before,,but it really happened. I had this friend (really) who could bake the best pound cakes in the world!!!!!!!Her husband was always nagging her about eating sweets. She baked a cake one day while he was at work. Needless to say she kept eating “little” slices of the cake through out the day untill she realized it was half gone. She knew she would be caught if HE saw that she had eaten half of a lb cake. WHAT TO DO? Easy,,she just ate the other half!!!!!!Works everytime>
July 6, 2007 at 3:51 pm
It sounds like you’re mastering a lesson that I’m trying so hard to learn: You had one serving, you weren’t hungry, so you stopped. I’m trying to teach my body and brain to get on the same page with that…
And one of your PMS-must-have-it trinity pieces is also in mine: French fries, plain white bread and Snickers with almonds.
I used to get one of those dadgum Snickers every time I ran into Target. I’d eat it on my way home and stash the wrapper in the garage. HA!!!
Here’s to a great weekend with nothing to confess come Monday…
July 7, 2007 at 9:23 pm
I used to buy doughnuts (aka spudnuts) for the office but I’d buy myself a couple to put in my bag. I’d go down and deliver them and everyone would think that I had been so good and not had any…but I had my bag.
Spudnuts, it’s not just for PMS anymore. (Spudnuts are doughnuts made with potato flour. Sinfully light but greasy and sweet.)
I also love salsa, chips, and cheese and it doesn’t have to be PMS time either.
My only question is how did you eat the powdered doughnuts without giving yourself away? Those things are notoriously sloppy with the powdered sugar….
Years of practice and an oblivious husband. I also have to pass by the laundry area on my way into the house so sometimes I would change clothes.
SFF
July 8, 2007 at 8:18 am
Over a year ago, when I was insane, any sort of slip up sent me in to a fit of depression and giving up – and therefore an excuse to eat anything and everything. I’m am much less insane now, and can handle food situations much better. I channel my insane behavior in to my blog! (Stay tune for a totally silly photo of me in my NEW HAT soon!)
Lady Rose (down over 80 lbs only a mere 60ish to go!)
July 9, 2007 at 12:22 am
I was commuting for school last summer and I would eat on campus and then come home (about an hour and a half figuring buses and trains) and then tell my mother I hadn’t eaten. And of course, by then it was fairly late and the only places open were fast food joints.
I’m really not proud of that fact, but it’s (mostly) in the past now.
July 10, 2007 at 12:24 am
Whenever I suffer from PMS I usually don’t know until after it’s over. Then I realize why I’ve been so *itchy. I also used to eat like a piglet at these times…secretly.
Hey it’s like they say, “when we know better, we do better.”
I do the same thing. You’d think after 20 years or so we would figure out what was wrong every month.
SFF
July 11, 2007 at 11:09 am
Thanks to everyone for telling your “secrets”. Yo Fat Mama would like me to confirm that she was not talking about herself. She was the friend that MADE the pound cake. I remember her pound cake phase. She wouldn’t quit until she had the recipe perfected. I miss those days.
SFF
February 1, 2009 at 12:58 am
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