Friday, May 18, 2012

Dreams

So yesterday I had to take a road trip for work.  It was the first time in a while that I had to restrict myself from eating whatever I want on the road.  (I have found that I give myself total license to eat just about anything I want if I am driving for an hour or more away from my home.)  It was the first time since I started going sugar-free on Monday that I really felt deprived.  I prepared myself for the worst by packing plenty of healthily snacks, but despite watching what I eat, I found myself desperate to consume something that wasn't good for me.

The problem was that I couldn't find anything without sugar.  Obviously donuts and candy were out of the question, but who would have thought Doritos had sugar in them?  Cheetos too (corn syrup solids?  ugh!).  Even the hot dogs at the convenience store I stopped at had sugar in them.  In the end, I was stuck eating my cashews from home and buying a bottle of water.  I felt very deprived. 

When I got home, I went to bed and dreamed about chocolate cake.  The sad thing is that everyone got to eat the cake but me.  I wasn't allowed to have any.  You would think in my dream I would have been able to share in the bounty of this massive cake, but no.  I got to sit on the sidelines while everyone had fun enjoying their cake.  Just to rub it in, after everyone got a slice, they walked by me to show me how great the cake looked.  Of course, then the dream took a strange turn.  I won't go into details, but it involved the pirate captain from Swiss Family Robinson ransoming my family.  He was about 300 pounds heavier than he was in the movie and was willing to take a check for the ransom. 

Anyway, the fact is I realized I may have made a mistake on this sugar-free thing.  I still have 361 days to go, and I am already dreaming about sugar.

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