Living with someone who doesn't share your eating habits is interesting. Not only does David eat meat, he's NOT on the Dukan Diet with me, which means that his lunch can (often does) consist of toaster strudels, and I get to watch. It's different, especially since I do the majority of the cooking.
For example, yesterday I made garlic butter for pasta and a cookie recipe his mother was nice enough to provide for me when I asked, exasperated, what he actually eats. The answer was meat and cookies. Since I'm morally opposed to the former if it isn't provided under very exact specifications, and have never made the latter, his mother took pity on me and gave me a recipe. I can't explain how depressing it was to cook cookies and not be able to sample anything, or how difficult it was to prepare the garlic butter judging by smell alone. Apparently, it turned out well enough, because he ate three of the cookies, and all of the pasta before leaving for his second job.
This morning, I sent him off with more cookies, secretly hoping that he would take all of them and I wouldn't have to look at them any time I pass the dining room table during the day. Every time I see the delicious, fresh, homemade cookies, I can't deny the irrational desire to stuff one in my mouth, but I know I should resist, and I often do.
Out of sheer frustration at the diet yesterday, I ate entirely too much yogurt, and gained .3 kg overnight. Roughly a pound. David said that all of his coworkers enjoyed the cookies, which is encouraging, since I substituted karob chips instead of chocolate chips, because we shop together and chocolate chips would've been a dead giveaway as to my intentions. I had no idea how it would taste, and I'm glad it turned out decently. However, I swear, the cookies taunt me every time I pass them. If I weren't on this stupid diet, I would have eaten all of them by now.
Oh my god I knooooow. Dieting makes me want to off myself. I'm on week four, eight pounds down, and craving....butter...and candy and toast and everything that is awesome. That I don't get to eat. Why do we do stuff like this? Is vanity worth it?!
ReplyDeleteI don't know! This sedentary lifestyle is a killer, and we should probably weigh less than we do, but blarrrggghhh why does candy exist in the world?
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of funny that we're both dieting at the same time. How's yours going? Maybe we should start an International Support Group for Butter Lovers Who Need to Lose Weight. I'll let you decide on the title.