Temptation

Hmmm....Ice cream sure sounds good tonight.

It's not like I haven't earned it. I've been really good on my diet for two weeks straight.

Let's see, how many calories do I have left today? About 200. Not quite enough for a trip to the local ice cream parlor.

But it would only put me a couple hundred calories over for the day. That's still not too bad.

And the kids would love it.

I spent a couple hours working in the yard today. Logged over 1,200 calories of exercise.

So in a way, I earned that ice cream.

Mmmmm, I can almost taste it now.

Rich, and creamy, with little chunks of stuff.

But it would put me over my 1,500 calorie quota for the day. So it's not allowed on my diet.

But so cold, so smooth.

No. Not allowed.

Sweet....

Can't do it. Won't. This is the way I always break my diets: it starts with a little thing, then another little thing, then it's something every day which "doesn't count" until I'm so far off my diet it isn't even worth keeping track of calories.

But surely one little cup of ice cream can't hurt that much.

It doesn't matter. No ice cream tonight.

That was close. They say that if you practice not giving in to temptation, then it gets easier with time. But it can still be amazingly insidious.