Don't Eat the Cookies in the Cookie Jar

Dating to me lately has been like eating stale cookies.

A little about me

 I love to work out and stay fit. Occasionally, actually very rarely anymore, I diet

I don’t like to diet because I work out hard and feel like as long as I work out I can maintain my current look and indulge once in a while….

Anyway, Occasionally I get it in my head that I need to be skinner so I start cutting out things from my diet. Usually the good stuff like cakes, chips, cookies…etc…

During those times I eliminate all of that stuff from my house so I am not tempted. I strip it down bare…

Inevitably I start to crave it at some point during the “diet”

I start thinking about it, telling myself I need it, crave it…want it…until I breakdown and go scavenging through my bare cupboards…

I usually find a box of stale cookies…I have fantasized about what they will taste like, I can barely wait to eat one…I open the package like a mad woman and shove a few in my mouth…chew..chew…done

Then what

Oh my God!!! Was that it…I wasted all that emotion and energy and calories on stale cookies

After the episode I feel bad…I wish I hadn’t eaten them and I realize it wasn’t what I wanted after all

What  I really wanted was a carton of “anything but” by Ben and Jerry’s covered with Mrs. Richardson’s hot fudge sauce (piping hot from the micro) or RazzleBerry Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream

Why didn’t I get that and really enjoy myself

Well because I was too lazy and too impatient to go to the store

I wanted something sweet immediately

I wasn’t willing to wait, to plan and to be patient

For me it doesn’t have to do with splurging or not, it has to do with me knowing what I want but not being patient in the process…

I have dated stale cookies since I have been single…their shelf life long expired

Just because something is easy and convenient doesn’t mean that it is right, it doesn’t mean I want it, doesn’t mean I have to settle for it

 Just because a cookie is in the cookie jar it doesn’t mean it is suitable to eat

Waiting for a good dessert is much better then settling for a dried up old stale cookie

Keeping it Real with Dr. Mary G