My Own Worst Enemy

Sometimes I get really great ideas. These ideas usually undo any great things I've done for myself. I hurdle my own roadblocks with the speed and grace of an olympian.

I don't keep sugar in the house. Or junk food. The only chocolate in the house is baking cocoa. For sweeteners I have honey, pure maple syrup and agave nectar. No cake, ice cream or brownies. If I want sweets, I have to go out and get them. And that requires effort. So really I don't eat sweets all that much. Except on Tuesdays when Kelly brings homemade treats in for all the grad students. This week it was homemade peanut butter cup things about the size of a small cheeseburger. They were in tiny pie tins, with a crust, peanut butter, melted chocolate, whip cream and crumbled peanut butter cups on top. Just sinful.

Oh yeah, and one of the professors also brought in two cakes (one chocolate and one carrot cake) because they had a potluck birthday party for his friend and 9 people brought cake. So I may have had one giant piece of chocolate cake. And then later in the week a small piece of carrot cake. I don't really like carrot cake but I had this really nasty taste in my mouth from a Cold Ease lozenge (to ease my cold) and had to get rid of it somehow.

And then maybe some pop tarts yesterday.

But really, I try to stay away from sweets. Maybe I should keep a journal of my junk intake. I might be surprised.

I'm getting over a cold. And today I traded my cold for cramps. Aaarrghh!!!!

I took the trash out and on the way up the stairs, they struck. Wooooo!!!! Breathe. Breathe. Wooooooo.

I made it back inside where I doubled over for a minute until they subsided. Then went to go prep a meatloaf.

Woooooo!!! Breathe, breathe, woooooo. I doubled over again as the pain sent a flush of warmth through my body.

If it is not one thing, it's another.

I breathed it away.

I got the meatloaf in the oven and opened the fridge. A bunch of lonely celery sat on the bottom shelf. Hmm. What can I do with celery? I decided to pair it with the all natural cashew butter on the second shelf. It was a little stiff. How can I soften this?

Ooh! Maybe add some honey, heat it up a little...maybe a dash of cinnamon?

Wait......hang on. Maybe some cocoa powder? And a little agave? Would that be like Nutella? Nutella is bad for you by the way, contrary to popular belief. So you should not sit there and eat it with a spoon. Everything in moderation.

So I mixed up the cashew butter, a little agave, some cocoa powder and a little soy milk to make it creamy. Then I dipped the celery in it.

The celery was like blasphemy. So I finished the celery and tried the chocolate cashew butter with a spoon. Much better. After a few spoonfuls, I got this image in my head, which I found on Pinterest:

Fortunately after a few days off, I'm back to running tomorrow. Meanwhile, the remainder sits in my fridge for emergencies.