cake gets in my eye
i'm doing well enough on my diet, but wouldn't you know it, last night at knitting we celebrated two birthdays. Lisa's b-day is Friday, and Mary Alice, the shop-owner's daughter, had hers yesterday.
there was cake. two kinds of chocolate. so instead of declining, i took a plate as it was passed to me. one was chocolate cake with chocolate icing in the shape of a kitty cat with butterflies lighting on it. and the other was a round chocolate on chocolate but then there were cherries, or maybe raspberries ( i wasn't sure) on top.
both slices i ate were small. and though the one with fruit was good, neither was to die for.
i do this all the time. i waste calories on food that is no good. if it was the most extraordinary dessert i've ever eaten, then i find ingesting the calories a moot point; i can accept it. but i always regret eating something that is just so-so.
plus there's the fact that i ate those small pieces of cake and really shouldn't have. social/celebratory eating is one of the most important things to me. i love to make food to for others to eat and feel like it's my duty to eat what others bring.
i didn't have a second piece like one or two others did.
today is another day. and there is no possibility of cake on the horizon.