I was at a meeting yesterday morning of my consultant's group. It was actually well attended, probably the biggest group we've had in a few years, because the presenter is well known in our area, and most people knew he was going to be dynamic.
Our group always serves a breakfast. The caterer also brings over homemade cinnamon buns and apple turnovers. Usually I don't partake of these things, at least over the last few months, but this morning I figured why not have one. So I ate my breakfast, then had the apple turnover. It was okay, not great, but there's something about glaze that's just compelling to me; oh yeah, it's sweet.
I went to throw my dishes away and I saw there were two turnovers left. I didn't touch them, thinking someone else might want one and I'd already had mine, and went to sit back down. Then I decided I wanted a bottle of water, got back up, saw the turnovers still there, but still didn't take one and sat down. Then I had trouble opening the bottle because it was wet and I couldn't get a grip, and I knew we'd run out of napkins, so I went to the bathroom to grab some paper towels.
On the way back, I'm getting ready to walk past the turnovers, when one of them seemed to be calling me. I figured hey, why not, as everyone was sitting down, so I grabbed the one with the most glaze and started to walk to my seat.
Well, one of the people at the meeting is a friend of mine, though she was a visitor to the group for the day, and she happens to read both my business newsletter and my business blog. She stops me as I'm walking by and asks me what I'm doing. I'm confused, so she looks at the turnover and says "You already had one of those because I saw you eating it. How are you going to stick to your goal for the year if you eat that?" Then it hit me; as one of my goals for the year, I'm supposed to be trying to lose 25 pounds. She had me dead to rights; ugh!
She holds her hands out and says "Let me have that." What could I do? I paused, looked at it, realized she was right, and I gave it to her. The guys laughed, but hey, she'd caught me and decided to help me, and, well, I went ahead and let her help me. The truth is that I really wasn't craving it, it wasn't great, but there is something compelling about that sugar beast that will eventually just suck you in sometimes.
Nope; sometimes you just can't get away with stuff, especially when the world knows about it.
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