Confession: I had a slip yesterday and ate ice-cream.
After a really quite horrible day in which I battled with my hormones, spent hours waiting around in the freezing icy weather, travelled on nine buses (one of which I fell over on - wearing a skirt.), had an eye test (I'm not a fan of these) and an extremely challenging and inappropriate encounter with a neighbour, I decided to settle down in the evening, get cosy and watch a film. Unfortunately, I didn't realise that the film I had ready to watch was one I had picked last year from a list of Best Food Films of All Time.
Have you seen The Waitress? If you haven't and you're a food fan then you will want to see it. It is a full length film of food porn with a slightly cheesy inspirational story coincidentally happening around it.
All of the food featured is pie - every kind of sweet pie you can think of and some you never would. I had to take screenshots just to show you what I was dealing with, here.
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See?!
In my weakness I remembered the ice-cream left over from new years and before I knew it I was in a sugar rush of palpitations and giddiness that pulsed through my body and took some climbing back from before I could get to sleep.
Lesson learned I shall choose my viewing times for food porn more carefully and I will not be revisiting sugar again in a hurry!
8 comments:
I think worrying too much about food is not good for anyones mental health. One portion of icecream is just one portion of icecream.
Setting up a diet that has very rigid rules can potentially lead to othorexia and even if it doesn't it can make you very miserable and food obsessed.If anyone has OCD tendencies I'd say be wary of putting too much emphasis on what you will and will not eat.
I try to go by the quote 'My guilt is more toxic than my food' - It's not easy to do,at least for me, but hey we're only human and food porn is hard to escape.
Ice cream or similar may well happen again. It does to all of us. I am sorry you had such a bad day though. That image of the chocolate pouring into the pie crust? Well I nearly likced the computer screen! Good luck with the rest of the week.
Thanks for your comments - you're all completely right!
I have a habitual thing for getting stuck in a cycle of restriction and then compulsive eating but in the last year or so I thought I had put that particular demon to rest.
I feel stuck between a rock and a hard place - but you're absolutely right that the guilt will not help.
As with every area of my life I find it difficult not to think in all or nothing terms.
You deserved the ice cream for the creepy man incident. I have seen this film and loved it! Totally my type of film, like Heathers and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
Go easy on yourself xxx Sam xxx
I saw this movie on TV about 6 months ago, it was fab and quite heart warming, if I see it on DVD I'd like to purchase it.
You're human - slip ups are normal. And I have not seen this movie, and it seems that I need to. Those screen shots are magical, and now I want chocolate pudding pie!
Ummmm...and I just watched the trailer and saw that NATHAN FILLION is in it?! As if I needed more convincing. I love him.
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