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

[moriamerri.livejournal.com]

why, yes, this is how Americans tend to eat all the time.

Total aside: I bought 4 cantaloups today at TJs and the very nice woman in line behind me asked how I eat them. This was in addition to the joke about whether I was trying to wipe out all the melons. I told her that I just eat them plain, and that I bought 8 at once recently (but TJ's didn't look quite as good as the ones at Milk Pail, so I only bought 4.) It's UNUSUAL to buy "large" amts of fruit and veggies. ("Large" is in quotes because I'm really not sure this is such a large amount....) It is NOT unusual at all to buy large amts of coke, cookies, beer, etc. I see people doing it regularly -- and, "of course" businesses by soda pop in quantity. Oh, and did I mention coffee and how it customary to provide it free at workplaces, and for sale on every street corner? (And I'm leaving out other things I consider pretty junky that are commonly considered food such as butter, oil (any kind), eggs, meat....)

RELENTLESS is a great word. What's relentless is the offers of junky food. Go in 7-11, drive down the street, go to work, go to most gatherings of people. Everywhere. Relentless.

Unfortunately most of us find that level of availability makes it really hard not to eat stuff we would wish not to eat. Most people who want to modify/limit/improve what they eat need to work to lessen the number of situations where the parade of food goes on. Thus the problem with working, going to school, going shopping, driving down the street, etc.

My main stategy is to try to be relentless in availability of something I DO think I should eat. Not that I can match the random offerings in quantity and relentlessness -- but at least I can complete when I have the energy.