neadods: (csi_chicken)
neadods ([personal profile] neadods) wrote2010-08-08 07:11 pm

That food study

In case anyone is wondering, I've decided to skip that cranberry controlled feeding (oh, God, that name!) study for three reasons:

1) I'm not comfortable taking the time to go to the orientation Monday or Tuesday because I don't drive the rental anywhere I don't have to and I've got a boatload of work to finish and clean up after before [livejournal.com profile] jennetj arrives Thursday.

2) It would mean going to Stratford in two weeks and not eating my body weight in minties and dark chocolate/lemon curd candies. And frankly, I will feel seriously deprived if I don't get at least one afternoon with a book in one hand and a box of candy in the other. (We're planning on taking up a cooler and ice packs so we can bring a boatload of them back to enjoy for the months weeks week few days they'll last.)

3) The big one: Work, believe it or not. Smack in the middle of the study period is the deadline for the document I've been working on for almost a year. This has all the earmarks of covering me and my company with glory; it's the kind of successful project that I could brag about for the rest of my career. And at this stage of the game, I'm not going to throw myself off stride by thinking about how hungry I am or little I want to eat whatever lunch is prepared or whatever cravings I have.

This revelation has been brought to you by Utz potato chips; last week I obsessed about how badly I wanted some chips and how I shouldn't eat them until I realized I'd been thinking about *that* instead of the project for the last 90 minutes and went to the vending machine.

Yes, I need to lose weight. Yes, I need to get a meal plan. Yes, I'm going to eat any damn thing I crave between now and document delivery. I have a long history of self-medicating for work stress with chocolate milk (what? It's not like anyone can drink gin on the job) and I if need it, I'm getting it.

I am going to keep an eye on their website, though, to see if later studies might be do-able.
ext_3965: (Evelyn Smythe)

[identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com 2010-08-09 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
90 minutes? Blimey! I'd have cracked much sooner than that!

I think you've made the right decision, there...