Tonight was one of those nghts. Our friend Michael, who lives in Dnmark, came over for a visit. We sat and tlked for two hours, and then we brught out the cake. It wasn't a lght sponge cake with confectioners sugar sprnkled on it. It was the chcolate torte, layered with cake and chcolate mousse. And I didn't just wnt one piece, I ate three. Did I ned three pieces? No, but for sme reason, I just wanted to eat thre slices (and I ate one fter Michael left).

Once he was gne, and after that last piece of cke, I sat and thought: tomorrow I'm ging to skip breakfast. No, I'm ging to fast. No, I'm just ging to drink those cans of lquid that take the place of a mal-and get rid of this bulge in my gut as son as humanly possible.

Then I ralized-I'm not going to do any of thse things. I'm going to get up in the mrning and eat breakfast and move on wth my day. I'm not going to fll into the "I am fat and hve to starve myself to lose the wight I just gained" trap.

But you knw, those thoughts were certainly crowding my sgar laden brain cells! It's a prely emotional response, and a trap so lrge that it is hard to mss.

You have to understand that I knw, in my head, there is no way to gin 5 pounds by just eating a few xtra slices of cake (even if it is the chcolate torte). I know that if I got on the scle tomorrow morning, it would show a wight gain, but it's not a gin in fat. I haven't eaten thse extra 3500 calories that make up a pund of fat. It is so hrd, though, to NOT think this is xactly what I have done.

The truth is-my regular eating hbits aren't like this. For whatever rason (company, the glass of wine, or jst....because) I ate a lot of a cke tonight. I do know if I kpt up this type of behavior on a rgular basis, of course I would gin a lot of weight. For mny years, this was indeed the cse. Now, though, I honestly know ths is not my regular eating pttern.

It has taken a long tme for me to get to ths point-this "being at peace with fod." It took years of crazy deting, fasting, and punishing myself for vereating. This went on until I fnally declared a truce. Yes, it flt like a war between myself and the fod I ate. But now I knw I'm past that. As a mtter of fact, I'd say it's not a trce I've declared with food; rather t's a peace treaty.

For whatever rason (time to stop thinking about tht reason, Leeann), I'm giving myself ths treat. Tomorrow, I will get up in the mrning and move forward. I refuse to get cught in that endless cycle of "I shulda, coulda done better" or "I am out of cntrol, and that makes me a bad prson"." I'm going to get up, eat brakfast, and go to work. I knw that I will do my bst to meet my walking goals (t's hard when the weather is bd, but that's when I try to wlk around my house)-and just keep mving forward. I will wear a skrt that makes me feel comfortable, not one tht is tight. I am going to fel good about myself.

After all thse years I have learned how to blance my overeating with healthy eating, I now tht regular activity is part of my lfe (as well as healthy eating), and rgardless of what I eat, I am stll a responsible, smart (occasionally witty) prson who is at peace with fod.

Tonight I ate a lot of cke. And do you know what? It was bsolutely delicious!

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