Dieter's Porn

Yesterday, my husband and I decided to go to The Olive Garden for our dinner date. We both love this place, but if you are trying to change your eating habits, this place could be a little hard to find something in that would help you to stay focused on what you are trying to change. Of course, I have already previously stated that I have had a love affair with food for a while, but I had no idea that there was food porn out there. There is.

So we are sitting there and the waiter comes up and asks if we want a sample of house wine and of course, we don't drink so that one was easy. I take up the menu to look at it and everything just looks so good. My husband and I have been doing very well with our portions and what we are eating lately so I decide to splurge a tad.

I am sitting there eating my bread and I look over and see the dessert menu on a fold-out. I am staring at it and try to look away and my eye keeps going toward this page. It's like porn for a food addict. I am salivating and these desserts are just posing on the page looking all delicious with their creamed fillings and chocolate drizzles and I could just taste them as I put one succulent bite into my mouth after another..... That's when I had to do it. That's when I had to turn the fold-out over. The other side was much less dangerous and I was able to focus on my date.

It is really kind of scary to know that something can have that much of a mental hold on us. It is overwhelming. Of course, my husband chuckled at me when I did it, but I don't think he understands how much of a part of me has been devoted to food all of these years. I am having withdrawals and yearning for a piece of Publix birthday cake, but I will not give in because there is so much more that I could be doing besides existing. My husband and I could be living..

Happy Blogging.

*Lindsey*