Sick

I ate some grains and sugar today.  And I feel TERRIBLE.  Really sick to my stomach.  I just can't believe how bad I feel.

Considering my former level of consumption, the tiny bites I had today should not be making me this nauseated.  But what else could it be?

I am a table host at a community dinner every month.  I never know what's going to be served, but I try to make good choices.  Tonight was some Mexican theme.  I passed on the chips and the rice.  But the casserole?  I could not avoid the chips as the base.  And then, I had a bite of my dad's cake which really was about a teaspoon and a half of chocolate frosting.  It actually tasted like partially hydrogenated soybean oil.  It was gross.  (And this from a person who would eat it right out of the can, any flavor.)  Then my daughter showed up with a frosted brownie.  I had a bite of that, too.  Ewww.  It was not good.  They call that cream cheese frosting?  I was sad that the other ladies at my table were gobbling it up.

My dad sent a cake home with us.  Some kind of chocolate-cupcake-with-no-frosting baked into one pan like a brownie.  I had one bite.  A really small bite.  And even though that was made from scratch, I still thought it was gross.  Not worth another taste, even though I nearly ate the whole piece out of habit.

And now, here I am.  Nursing my sick stomach, and thinking for the first time in my life, those bites weren't worth this feeling of sick.  Passing that stuff over just got a whole lot easier.  Besides, and this is true, there is no cake in the world that can make you feel as good as putting on a smaller pair of pants does.