Tonight I met a different set of friends. We are planning our high school reunion. Our meeting was at a restaurant and someone had preordered a few appetizers. They were all calorically dense and I chose to just have a beer (:)). So on occasion, I DO drink my calories, but for some, alcohol is health promoting. This is never true about sugar sweetened beverages!
Tying these two evenings together is another true thing about me. I do not eat food to make other people feel comfortable. I eat when it suits me to eat (which is related to what the food is and whether or not I am hungry). As you might also know, I don't take kindly to 'food pushers'. {food pushers are those that seem to feel uncomfortable by other people's not eating, or not eating "more"} And yet I am as much a food pusher as any body else and have to restrain my own impulses.[It's a phenomenon of our broader culture - of many cultures] Last night, if someone had not made a plate of food at our buffet table, I found myself wanting to ask, "Aren't you going to eat something?" And I did offer to make a plate for one guest in particular -(her hands were full with her twins!). It's funny isn't it. In my defense, I never push things that are not part of a quality diet :)
Here is the tray - which has Wasa crackers and two flavors of Light Laughing Cow cheese wedges (they do not come that way, I bought two and mixed them), grapes in personal sized bunches (I cut them that way), vegetarian eggrolls cut into 50 calorie servings, and my own blueberry cake squares.
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| Beneath those goodies is a great picture of a tulip - I love tulips. |
