Oh, not the walk-off-a-building suicide, the I've-baked-two-batches-of-brownies-and-didn't-take-them-anywhere suicide. Death by chocolate.
The first batch was to go to a family whose mother was hospitalized. Only I didn't get home until 4.00 from all of the school runs and started the dinner and brownies then, trying to get it all wrapped up and delivered to their home, 20 minutes away, before 5.15.
I took them out of the oven at 4.55.
You can't cut brownies when they're hot and I had cooked them in my best pan.
This family is not the family to leave your best pan with.
So, they got a plate of Keebler packaged cookies and I got the brownies.
Their chocolatey gooeyness disappeared pretty quick and my kids aren't any heavier so I'm pretty sure I did some emotional eating. Not sleep-eating, just auto-pilot eating.
For post-length sake, let's not even discuss the second batch.
I am weaning myself off of fizzy drinks.
I didn't used to be so bad, but a soda became my reward for a bad day. I started having a lot of bad days. Eating poorly and having sugar crashes helps lead to bad days. See the evil cycle?
I'm not even craving it, so that's a good thing
On health, there's a report over at BBC that says the "U.K. has a higher early death rate...". They're contributing it to smoking and drinking, but all I can say is, "Well, DUH people! Have you ever tried the chocolate over here?!"
Death by chocolate, I'm telling you.
Speaking of healthy habits, I've also taken up Bollywood Dancing. It's a lesson in humility.
I will never be the over-proud woman consumed with her looks or abilities when I know that it is physically impossible for me to bounce my shoulders the same time I am supposed to be moving my feet in any kind of rhythm.
It's fun and makes me laugh (primarily at not with myself), so I keep doing it.
Here, I'll let you see for yourself. A video of me doing my Bollywood workout.
Oh, it didn't load? Gee, I can't fathom what might have happened...
Too funny! I guess there are way worse ways to go . . .
ReplyDeleteI gave up soda myself. It was hard the first week.
ReplyDeleteI made brownies this week for J to take to work, when I know I'm making brownies for something, I tend to use the throwaway pans. Not so good for the planet since I don't think most of them get recycled, but good for me keeping my pans.
Yes, I have had the chocolate over there, and sigh, I'm sure there is some of my drool still left on the counters in a couple chocolate shops in Paris.
HA! Darn! I wanted to see that video! I was hoping to get some tips. I too tried the Bollywood dancing and I am sure they use WD-40 on their hips somehow. Cause I can't move like that at all!!
ReplyDeleteBrownies I just don't make...enough said!
Hugs
SueAnn
Ha ha! I tried reloading the page 3 times before I read your last sentence and figured out it was a joke.
ReplyDeleteI recently went from regular Mt. Dew to Diet and that was so HARD! I can't imagine going all the way off the stuff.
Death by chocolate...that is definitely the way I want to go!
ReplyDeleteOh dear. Brownies are one of those things that have some sort of mystical quality about them that I don't quite understand. One moment I have a whole pan of them and the next moment there aren't any at all in sight. It's one of life's great mysteries, I think, where they all disappear to. (I am a bit curious about that second batch, but I'll be polite and not ask.)
ReplyDeleteI know all about the emotional eating and the cycles of it all. I've been in that trap more times than I care to count. Just when I think I've conquered it, I fall back into it. I hope it helps to know you're not alone. Sending you good thoughts from here.
You are awesome, and if you've seen me on Facebook today or my blog you know how very much I needed a smile.
ReplyDeleteThank you my friend. I think you're perfect just the way you are.
BTW--during all the drama this morning of my daughter's friend being missing I managed to pack away almost an entire roll of Pillsbury cinnamon rolls-6 weeks out of date. I completely understand emotional eating.
Hahaha! At least you still have your sense of humor! ;)
ReplyDeleteI was straightening out my pantry and found I had too much chocolate chips and marshmallows... I HAD to make fudge... yep, death by chocolate is epidemic.
ReplyDelete(My word verification was: swine --- was it telling me I'm a pig for eating the whole pan of fudge?)
I don't drink a lot of Coke, Sprite, Pepsi, Fanta or whatever, don't really enjoy it. Which is too bad, because if I did, I could decide to stop and immediately see some results. Now, my weakness is chocolate and cookies... Giving up on them seems virtually impossible. Taking up jogging and the gym is even more far away... How will this end? I wonder.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I 'm sorry, but the film with your Bollywood dance didn't load...
Loved you r post!
/Jo.
Ice cream is my achilles heel. Big time. Over hot brownies? Mmmm. Then last week I discovered a new addiction while experimenting with possible birthday cakes for the coy - chocolate cherry pineapple dump cake. I don't even LIKE cherries. But this? To die for. Whatever you do, don't google it. Don't do it.
ReplyDeleteLol! I totally thought, oh no the video didn't load and then I kept reading :)
ReplyDeleteAnd yes death by chocolate is a real thing :)
What is it about us and chocolate?!! If it's in the pantry, I will keep glancing at it and trying to drag myself away but it's very difficult. My daughter had loads of Easter eggs, far too many for a 10 year old so I helped her out....!!
ReplyDeleteI, too, clicked on the bogus video clip!!
Hee, hee, hee! Looks just like my workout...
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