Foot-In-Mouth Disease

So far on this blogging adventure I've written about food and drink that I've had. Now is time for me to speak of food I've gone without.

Yesterday I decided not to have coffee. Well, honestly I decided the night before. My coffeemaker has one of those handy-dandy timers that allows you to set up coffee to brew at a later time. It's quite brilliant, actually. Anyway, I was very tired Tuesday night. I didn't feel like washing the coffeepot and the filter cup, or grinding beans and measuring water, blah blah blah, so I decided to forget it all and go to bed. I could just do without coffee on Wednesday. Of course I could. It's just a beverage!

Besides, the coffee I'd had Tuesday morning had been a bit funky and I guess the unpleasantness still lingered.
Wednesday morning came and I had cereal but no café.

I was fine.

Until about 3pm--when I started to get punchy. And began to feel the pangs of a headache. And lost any hope of being able to concentrate on anything. At all.

I arrived home after work and met up with my roommate and friend, and, during a simple innocent conversational exchange, the caffeine-thirsty monster leapt out of me and the simmering crankiness from my coffee-deprived brain bubbled over with a response of jerkiness that not only hurt their feelings, but left me feeling even worse.

Later, after apologizing profusely, I pledged silently to prepare my morning drug every night no matter how sleepy or lazy I felt. I'd like to make clear my coffee-less-ness was no excuse for my rude behavior, but it certainly was a factor in my poor judgment and my complete lack of diplomacy. Why is caffeine's thumb so hard to get out from under?

Food diary

I started keeping a food diary when I joined Weight Watchers. That got me into the habit of writing down everything I eat...well, writing down most of it! I don't write down no-calorie drinks (water, diet soda) and sometimes I won't write down no-calorie foods. But everything else goes into the diary.
Today the diary is being retired. A new diary will be started tomorrow (although I have a bad habit of not writing down weekend foods, which is probably why I'm overweight!, among other things *notmoving*) and I'm happy about that. But sad about the old diary's retirement and recycling. I looked through all the entries and it brought back happy times and then disturbing trends.
Por ejemplo:
I binged alot on fast food in Denton. You could say that was because of my dissatisfaction with my job but I think the bigger issue was availability. Now that I live in the sticks, I don't eat much fast food. It just doesn't make sense. And since I don't eat a fast food item, not to mention many fast food items to necessitate a "binge", I am no longer binging on fast food.
If it is there, I will eat it. I saw trends of food. Cookies that would appear in every meal. The same entree when at home. That can be a good thing when you've got the right foods around.
I know I starved myself when on Weight Watchers (I never didn't eat, I just ate a heck of a lot less) and I think that is why I'm averse to soups now. Hopefully that will change*.
So I will start my new food diary....Saturday?? Here's to you, old food diary!!

*According to Grammar Nazis, "hopefully" should not be used. You should use "I'm hopeful" as in "I'm hopeful that that phrase will not be seen as being pretentious.*

Personal aside: I maintain the food diary because I have heard that writing down what you eat reminds you of what you eat so you will eat less. That's assuming you didn't drink four beers which will make you disregard all your note-taking for a round of cheese fries and/or mozzarella sticks. Yum!