This week’s topic: DIETS!

I wish …. I had the willpower to stay on one particular diet, and it would be completely vegetarian and low in processed sugars!

I’ve been going back and forth in my head for the past six months about becoming completely vegetarian. For 2 1/2 years I’ve eaten chicken, but have not had any other poultry, meats or fish. I became a ‘chick-a-tarian’ for mostly moral reasons; I’d had no real trouble giving up pork, and the only fish I deigned to eat was shrimp (and a one-time foray into skatewing, oddly enough!). One night I had a very disturbing dream about a mad scientist guy poisoning cows and leaving them to wander my yard, some of them sick, blind, bloody – you get the idea. The next day I woke up and refused to eat beef, so that left chicken. I sometimes feel bad even eating that, and would love to be able to break myself of eating it. However, it does contain good sources of protein, and without it I’d have to be much more dilligent about tracking what I do eat, as well as taking my vitamins.  I eat fruits, vegetables, cheeses and whole grains every day, and I love what I eat. I don’t eat chicken every day as it is, so cutting it out altogether wouldn’t be impossible.  I just don’t know that I have the energy to devote to it.

I LOVE SUGAR. I love sweets. Cakes, cookies, candy, tarts? YES, YES, YES, YES. I know that if I could give up sugars (as in, sugar that doesn’t naturally occur in foods, like fruit) I would probably be a little healthier and definitely would have no trouble keeping off those 5 ‘vanity’ pounds. But, apparently I don’t want it hard enough because I will not give up my cupcakes, Skittles and Hagen Daaz Peach Sorbet. 

I don’t drink sodas or eat fast food, and for the most part enjoy a lot of healthy items in my diet; but if I could do these two things I would probably be better off.

Now, if I could just get the wrapping off of this cupcake…