Tuesday, August 10, 2021

counting the days

 A week and a half ago my doctor put me on a restrictive diet for two weeks.  He wasn't happy with my "slightly elevated" glucose level so he wants to do another test this Friday.  That's three days from now.  Three more days.  I have been following the diet faithfully.  No breads, pastas, potatoes, corn, peas, rice, sweets or sodas.  So basically I can eat meat. vegetables and fresh fruit.  The sodas were easy.  I very seldom drink soft drinks and the only soda I have in my apartment is Diet Dr. Pepper which I only keep because one of my girlfriends likes it.  I have noticed a troubling pattern though, not with me, with my TV watching.  About 9pm every evening many of the commercials on TV turn to food ads.  Temptation! For the last couple of hours I have been treated to pictures of sandwiches, pizzas, ice cream and other things I'm not allowed to eat.  But only three more days.  I should be fine except, when I started this two week diet I cleared out almost everything tempting.  Almost everything.  A friend had given me three small packages of DeBrand's chocolates.  I'm sorry, bur all the will power in the world couldn't make me throw them away.  After this glucose test is over I will try to pace myself but I will be eating chocolate.  

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