The Parents: Resisting Temptation
01 February
I have a confession to make...
I have been
very very bold. In an emotional hour with a friend in need earlier this
week, I crumbled, quite literally, into a scone! Oh the shame, the
horror, the disappointment! But it was an emergency - no salacious
details will be revealed I'm afraid, mum is DEFINITELY the word on this
one - yet also reinforcement to myself, that I am without doubt, an
emotional eater. I didn't even actually WANT the damn thing, but the
occasion demanded it, as did my friend, and so I caved. But I did only
have half, didn't have butter or jam, and have to say most definitely
did not have it warmed up, a strange habit here in Ireland that I still
can't get used to!
D day tomorrow though! At least the all the chewing of the
fingernails I'm doing in anticipation of my date with the scales of
doom should shift an ounce or two!
Food now mastered, exercises duly undertaken with if not gusto, then at
least gung-ho! But grip on determination by the time of the third, and
most challenging weigh in yet, with a 3 STONE TARGET to achieve between
us, is definitely slipping.
I'm in it for me, in it for my family, and in it to win it for the team,
so you'd think with all that riding on me I would be able to resist
the temptation to be bold. But when there's a three year
old hanging off your leg wanting to land his airplane model as if in
a cross wind on your shelf-like rear, a six year old wanting you to
explain the periodic table to her because daddy told her to be a
scientist when she grows up, and the migraine from hell creeping in at
the temples, it's hard to say 'No' to the untouched cheese sandwich you
are emptying out of the husband's lunchbox.
If it were not for the immediate
empathy and support of those on www.mumstown.ie,
the local parenting group through which we all in The Parents
Group met, I think I'd be swimming in a vat of Ben and Jerry's finest
by now. It's so much easier to put that butty in the bin, when,
within three minutes of posting how you feel on the threads regarding
the show, you've had messages from those with you on the programme or
supporting from the sidelines telling you not do it and that you
deserve so much more.
So, onwards and upwards. We're having our wobbles, all of us, but we
wouldn't be human (Dr Eva, take note!) if we didn't, and here's hoping
that we're all gonna continue heading in the right general direction!
Chin(s?) up, one and all!
Heather (The Parents Group)
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