‘Watch out for sabotaging behaviour’, warn the authors of The 2 Day Diet. 'Loved ones may try to tempt you with forbidden foods…' Yes, Siree! Last night, after a lovely walk in the park, my husband says: ‘I think I’ll buy some wine. Do you want some wine?’
‘No, I
don’t!!’ I had so far managed no carbs all day and there were none on the menu
for supper, either. This was looking like a no carb day.
So my
husband decides he’ll buy beer instead – no temptation to me as I can’t stand
it.
But dinner
is running late, and, as we potter about the kitchen and he pours his first
drink, I am the one to sabotage my own diet.
‘As I’m
not drinking tonight, I think I’ll finish off that champagne in the fridge,’ I
say.
Yes, at
the risk of sounding opulent, there was leftover champagne in our fridge –
opened two days earlier to celebrate our youngest daughter’s 18th
birthday, but it made her wince and there was a whole glass left. Actually a
very large whole glass (still in the bottle, and still fizzy – what are the
odds?)… So I had
that, called it a carb, and told myself it was now a carb day – and then, after
dinner, watching Breaking Bad, I ate two of Steve’s home-made chocolates
leftover from a function he catered last weekend. ‘Only two more carbs’…
Why do we
do it? Why do we dieters cheat on ourselves but pretend we’re cheating on the
diet and that the diet won’t know about those forbidden treats we sneak passed
our lips?
The diet
book doesn’t care. The authors don’t care! The only person who’s affected by my
decision to drink a glass of wine and eat a couple of chocolates is me…
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