Scorecard

[cjsmith]

Last Wednesday's random offering: sweets (mostly hard candies) from, I think, Brazil.
Last week's happy hour: nachos and margaritas.
Friday's random offering: nuts coated with toffee and chocolate.
Monday's free lunch: burritos, tacos, and enchiladas, with nachos.
Tuesday: I think they had bagels but I honestly cannot remember for sure.
Today's random offering: enormous sticky pastries.

I don't know why this gets to me, because I firmly believe it is not anyone else's job to change anything just because I happen to have a really annoying restriction. (Why make more people miserable?) But it's just so bloody RELENTLESS. Is this really how Americans eat? All the TIME?? Is this really how I used to eat, all the time? With my family history of Type II diabetes? Why yes, I just might be a moron. (Right now I'm an annoyed moron.)

I do realize that the frustrating day I had yesterday probably has as much or more to do with my reaction to those pastries this morning as anything else does.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not even particularly talking about quantity, just quality. If 500 or 1000 calories of a person's daily intake are sugar, just how much nutrition is that person really getting?

Of course, quantity does become related when quality goes downhill. If 1000 calories of your daily intake are sugar, your body is undoubtedly storing it away for future use and soon telling you you're hungry again! (Unless diabetes has hit hard enough that you're just peeing it out. I can always tell when my cat comes out of remission and back into being actively diabetic: she loses weight. Her body says she's hungry, she eats, she can't use the glucose, it leaves her body in urine, her body releases fat stores, she can't use those either...)