Look Ma' No Hands!

Part of the huge amount of stress of dieting is social occasions.

Now why is that?

Is it because almost every single social occassion involves eating, food, drinking, ingesting, something of some sort?

I don't know for sure, but I'd say .... hmmmmmmmm

Probably.

So if you are on a DIET that implies that you are following a proscribed set of rules about eating, food, drinking and/or ingesting. They might be rules as to WHEN you can eat, they most certainly might have something to do with HOW MUCH you will eat, they might ... if they have a more esoteric bent even have a concern with WHY you are going to eat ... THAT. Most often they will have some say in WHAT you can eat.

Which let me say right now ... is often quite limited in some regard.

SO when you are faced with the myriad and ironically somewhat equally limited options at certain social occasions, well you know ... the opposition ... between WHAT you are SUPPOSED to be eating and WHAT is actually AVAILABLE can often be ... well, HUGE!

So there in is the cause of stress.

But with No S. Guess what? Many of our social occasions fall on the weekend. Now I know not all of them do, but that's all about NWS days ...

ANYWAY ... what I am saying is this.

The large majority of our social engagments occur on Saturday and Sunday ... S days.

When we are allowed to behave like grown-ups with food, take the training wheels off with food and you know take those big hills and drive down those spiral driveways and maybe even dirt bike it and go off road.

This is fun. This is much less stressful than constant inhibition. And just in case we fall over, scrape our hands and knees, forgot to wear our helmets ... what have you ....

there is always Monday when we can pick ourselves up, wash our cuts and scrapes, put on a few bandaids, dust ourselves off, have a nice one plate breakfast and get on with the business of living.

Photo: a rather large piece of Von's German Chocolate Cake