Just because it's legal doesn't mean...

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....that I have to have it lying around in plain sight where every time I see if,

I reach out and grab a handful. Yesterday when I went down to the basement to

get something out of the downstairs fridge, I saw a bag of pistachios that my

mom had brought to me from out of town, and I thought that maybe someone would

like to set them, because, after all, it's a shame for nuts to go rancid hanging

out in the basement for long periods of time. So they are now on the kitchen

table, and I'm allowed to eat them, which I am now doing every single time I

walk through the kitchen.

This is something that I know about myself--if there is something yummy in front

of me, I'll probably eat some of it, whether I'm hungry or not. So it seems

reasonable to me to not have those things in plain sight. I don't buy potato

chips because I think they're crap and I don't want to be eating them. They're

not illegal; I can eat them whenever I want, and I do, when they're available at

parties or events, but I don't see any reason to have them in the house. My

boys like corn chips, and melt cheese on them, and make bean dip for them, but

it was another thing that I would always eat if I saw it. So we made a deal; I

would buy them, but they had to live in the pantry and not on top of the fridge.

That way, if I really wanted corn chips, I could get them out and have some, but

I didn't have to see them all the time, and thus eat them when I didn'tt really

want them. There's ice cream in the basement freezer, and my son sometimes goes

down there (the stairs are steep and it's kind of scary down there), but I

rarely do. I'm starting to think I don't really even like ice cream all that

much,though I wouldn't have known that had it stayed upstairs where I'd be

prompted to eat it all the time.

I know this is kind of a light topic, after all the heavy things folks have been

writing about (and I totally sympathize--when my husband left ten years ago, I

had no idea how I was going to get through it, and I did gain a lot of weight,

but after I got done with being sad, which took about three years, I really

started rediscovering things that made me happy and were very fulfilling), but

there it is anyway. I figure this forum cn handle a variety of topics, and it's

what i've been thinking about this morning.

Tilley