Beating Back the Beast - two weeks two days

Today was a win !! I did not eat chocolate! As a hardened chocoholic that is quite an accomplishment, I do however want to eat my own arm off!

Why is it so hard to forgo the creamy, brown delicacy that is chocolate. It disguises itself as the elixir of life. We find it irresistible. We give it as tokens of our love and gratitude yet it is an insidious monster. Looking all harmless and inviting it tempts us to taste it, calls to us with a voice only we can hear but once it passes our lips it's true identity is revealed and it feeds the Beast within  us.

So today was a win I did not partake of this temptress, the Pied Piper of the Beast. I did not let it pass my lips.

I have an admission to make for the first three and a half months of this year I did not let the temptress lure me but I stumbled to my demise around Easter time. You see Whittaker's makers of the finest chocolate this country produces pulled out all stops to bring me back into the fold. For the first time they made Easter eggs and not just any old Easter eggs, these tasty tempters were in the shape of a kiwi with it's egg. How could I resist. the Pied Piper had found my weakness, the thing I had always wanted most at Easter, chocolate in the egg form from the chocolate gods, the Whittaker's.

I bought one and hid it in my wardrobe. I would let it sit and wait for my birthday that was a few weeks later. Perhaps by then I would have forgotten it was there. FAT CHANCE! That bloody egg called to me every day to remind me it was there. The Pied Piper's flute was loud and insistent, come the 23rd of the month I flung open that door and ripped into the foil guarding my treasure from me. I scoffed that thing in seconds!

Since then I have managed a few days at most to resist the temptress. So today, a day without chocolate is a big thing. It is a day of strength when my body is not feeling so strong. But the biting of the Beast in the tendons of my arms fortified my resistance. The stab of pain in my hamstrings reminded me to turn away from the Piper. I didn't train today but I did a lot of yard work. I did not train today but it was still a win to me!

Today the beast goes hungry!

Chicken salad for dinner.