Mars and Venus
As I have probably mentioned across my sites hundreds of times already, I am currently on a six week restricted diet. With no alcohol, no chocolate, no mushrooms (I love mushrooms) and plenty of other ‘no, you can’t have this even if you love it because I’m evil and I like torturing people with food restrictions’ –
Ahem. Let’s try that again.
With so many restrictions on what I can and can’t eat and basically losing nearly all my comfort food (both unhealthy and healthy), my recent way of dealing with stress is talking to my husband more. (The poor man.)
We were out having Greek the other night (thankfully I can still eat most of the yummy food they have on offer) and I was talking about how everything was going.
After telling him how much weight I’ve lost so far, etc, I said, “The most difficult part of this whole thing is the eating every three hours. Sometimes I just plain don’t want to eat.”
He thought about it a moment. “Well, you could always eat smaller things. Even a half or a quarter of a banana is still eating.”
“I already make my portions smaller. Sometimes I’m just not hungry anyway and sometimes it’s a mental thing – I don’t want to see, smell or even think about food.”
“You could skip a meal. Spread the rest out a bit.”
“No, I can’t, really,” I said, picking at my food with a bit of irritation. “I need to stick with what she says, at least for the six weeks. The whole point of eating so often is to steady out my blood sugar.”
At that point he opened his mouth to make another suggestion but stopped and just grinned. “This is another one of those Mars and Venus things. I want to fix the problem and – ”
“And I just want to complain a bit,” I said and then laughed.
There is a lot to be said for seeing something for what it is rather than simply reacting based on emotions.
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