Cheating

As a rule, I am not tempted very often to cheat on my low carb woe. Well, on our annual vacation to West Texas, it is exceedingly hard to find low carb choices at the restaurants (there aren't a lot of restaurants, and most of them serve chicken fried everything, biscuits and gravy, french fries, etc., hard to resist every meal for 5 or so days).

Today I started reading through Dr. Bernstein's "The Diabetes Diet". I'm not diabetic, but the principles he lays out applies to anyone following a low carb eating plan.

I just had to quote him. Many of his patients find it hard to resist high carb foods, but once they start feeling better, it becomes easier. Here's what he says, "My mouth waters whenever I pass a bakery shop and sniff the aroma of fresh bread, but I am also grateful simply to be alive and sniffing." It means his health and well-being to not eat carbs, it's what's kept him healthy for so many years, when statistics show he should have died years ago from complications of diabetes.

I want to adopt this same attitude. It doesn't matter what I'm tempted with, even if I'm starving and the food choices are limited, I'm going to make every attempt to eat only low carb, so I'll maintain reasonable health, and be grateful that I'm alive and can smell that food, even if I can't partake of it. I'm not going to drool, or pout, or make a fuss because "I can't eat that!" No, I'll just choose the best that I can, as wisely as I can, and let someone else have the high carb stuff.

Yes, there will probably be times that I'll eat something I probably shouldn't, but I'm going to do my best to make that the rare exception, not a regular occurrence.