Put Down the Cookie

Cookies I'm Not Eating

     One month from today I'm going on a spring break trip with my family to someplace warm and sunny where I won't be wearing bulky pullovers and I might have to sit by a pool.  This means that today was Day One of my Spring Break diet. I didn't cheat at all which meant that I was hungry and cranky and I spent a good deal of my afternoon thinking about NOT  eating a cookie.  Or four.  Earlier this afternoon, Joel was going to eat a chocolate chip cookie and I might have yelled at him - "You can't eat that cookie . . . I'm on a diet!"  There's a passage in the Bible that talks about dieting (it's in Matthew). Jesus says that when we're fasting (dieting), we shouldn't make it obvious.  We shouldn't walk around all miserable and disheveled telling everybody how hard it is that we're fasting (dieting).  We should keep it to ourselves and we'll be rewarded later. I will admit that this is good advice and dieting gracefully is something I will work on tomorrow.  Today's reward was making my husband put down a chocolate chip cookie.  He really wanted that cookie too - almost as much as I did.