My Dad is here! Yep he drove from Washington and surprised all of us here at the house. I was so very very excited to see him. I miss him, I miss all my family that lives in Washington as well as my friends. I don't ever get to see them enough. But here is the interesting part. My first thought after hugging him and all that good stuff was where are all the fun places we are going to try while you are here? Seeeeee, straight to food I went. Something happy totally means we need to have food! Duh?!?! Wait, hold up, not going to happen; reign it in Angela! My dad and I have had this dream to go and visit the Diners, Drive-ins and Dive places here in Phoenix and sadly this would have been the perfect trip for us to do that, but alas... it will not happen (insert sad face here). But I know it is for the greater good. It was funny when I told him we were all doing medifast at the house he chuckled a little and said "am I going to have to go to McDonalds everyday then for real food?" Ummmm nooooo you have several other food choice locations at your disposal don't limit yourself to just McDonalds! But under no cirmcumstances are you to even think about bringing the food or even the trash home....I would eat that if I could I AM JUST THAT DESPRITE! (insert drama here)
We have had a lovely day. Talking, playing games, laughing so hard I nearly peed (darn you water, I am constantly drinking). Dinner was tasty; and ohhh we tried something new tonight! I have to share. We made, wait for it, drum roll please, CAULIFLOWER fake mashed potatoes. I know what you're thinking......dis-gust-ing but really it was pretty darn A-maz-ing! It could be that from the lack of real food, especially anything with carbs, I just tricked myself into believing they were amazing...(just close your eyes angela you are eating potatoes.....POTATOES). But seriously I was pleasently surprised. I would not lead you astray (ok at least not intentionally). For St. Patricks day we are going to put green food coloring in them, how festive is that!??!?! (sorry for all the !!!!!! points I had some caffeine today...ok a lot of CAFFEINE and I am a bit buzzed. Pretty soon I will zzzZZZzZZZzzZZzzz (crash)) Sorry about that I am awake now.
I will leave you for the day with this bit of wisdom; a happy event or event in general does not HAVE to evolve around food. Use something else to put that emotional energy towards. We were able to have a healthy dinner at home and used all the happy emotional energy to laugh and to play games. Seee, that wasn't so hard was it!
I have a feeling my dad is going to be glad to get back to his house were they "eat real food!" Until then he is stuck with 5 medifast meals and one lean and green, ooorrrrr sneaking around eating "real" food all by himself! (Sad, he choose the real food.....Hey I would too, its mean to make our surprise guest suffer..... or is it just paybacks? The jury is still out.) Love you.....Popi
First real day in a while I have felt genuinely happy and because of that I am removing 2 tiny thin layers of self hate. Progression toward recovery, every second counts <3
Love Angela
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