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My New Year's Resolution foiled by cheesecake in a tub
By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom
January 3, 2008

That's a prediction actually.  Because so far I am making good on my New Year's Resolution!   (It's just day ONE the other two days didn't count.)

The only time I have ever made good on a New Year's Resolution was when I was in elementary school.  I was a "nail biter" and I vowed to stop biting my nails.  When I was a child I really believed that making a "new year's resolution" was like magic.  If you made it you had to follow through with it.  I stopped biting my fingernails for a few years.  I can remember eating fish at my aunt’s house.  She was bragging about me to my cousin or trying to make my cousin feel guilty, “Look how Rebecca isn’t picky.  She even eats the silver stuff and look at how she doesn’t bite her fingernails!”

I still eat everything but I keep "breaking the deal" and not following through on my New Year's Resolutions.  I chew on my fingers especially while watching LOST.  I just finished up last season’s episodes to get ready for the new season.  Get back on the track little train.

Being that I’ll eat anything and I love food; I can’t diet.  I love sushi with wasabi, raw oysters with horseradish, and even turnips.  I think my New Year’s Resolution should be to “get healthy.”  If I say that my New Year’s Resolution is to “loose weight” then my body will rationalize diet pills, starvation, and marathon runs into the equation.  I just love food too much!  I think “live healthily” would achieve the same goal.

I did some squats yesterday because I saw a clip where Jessica Simpson said that SQUATS is how she keeps her boodie round.  I used to have a “bubble butt” but over the years it lost its battle with gravity and has become more of that upside down heart shape…

I thought that maybe getting off of the juice – my morning cup of coffee - would be one way to get healthy but then my mom told me that “coffee is actually good for you.”  I stopped drinking coffee and started drinking tea.  I go through these cycles.  I think they are seasonal.

I got up early this morning because we were on our last roll of toilet paper and we have two extra humans temporarily living with us – females.  I ended up spending about a hundred and thirty dollars on my toilet paper run because the sushi, seaweed salad, and peanut sauce looked so good.  AND IT’S HEALTHY!  I’m going to live more healthy, right?

Inspired by the sweet potato fries over at Spoonz I had an idea to make some sweet potato hash browns and then I got an idea for some taco soup.  Taco soup with zucchini would be healthy.  I think I had just escaped the produce section when I noticed the MEAL DEAL over by the cheeses.  FREE STUFF.  How about living healthy and wise?  Oh yeah, and I thought it would be a good idea to make some home made tomato basil mozzarella grilled sandwiches.  Why do I get my most passionate  recipe ideas while on a "diet."  I guess it's my stomach's way of saying, "I don't think so!"

My self talk sounded something like, “Since I’m on a “diet,” not a "diet" I'm trying to be healthy, maybe the kids would like some milk shakes?  Oh!  What is this?  Cheesecake in a tub?  I could dip, I mean the kids could dip, cookies in that!  The kids could even dip some pie crust in it.  GRAHAM CRACKERS! How many squats would it take to burn off 8,000 calories?   I'll make good on my new year’s resolution tomorrow!"

But I'm doing ok.  I had a bowl of bran for breakfast, some unsweetened tea, and some seaweed salad for lunch.  That's pretty healthy.  It's also not appetizing so my stomach is saying, "You know what, no thanks!  I wasn't hungry anyway.  Forget I asked.  You won't hear from me until midnight."  


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