As I contemplate the bulge around my middle and the ten pounds I want to lose by my sister’s 60th birthday party in November the thought goes through my head: I am not motivated to lose weight, I am motivated to eat pie. Blackberry pie, hot, steaming and dripping beautiful black juice down the side of my prized Fiestaware pie plate and along the countertop, PIE. Yes, I am carrying around the booty from the summer: fresh harvested berries made into pie, fried zucchini, Theo’s salted almond dark chocolate bars, crab cakes, clams dipped in butter, mussels finished off with spicy curried coconut milk.Oh how I love the summer! Strawberries with vanilla ice cream, blueberry pancakes sweetened with maple syrup, local ESB’s and IPA’s, lovely Sauvignon Blancs and huckleberry liquors………screechhhhhhh…ing….halt! Tomorrow, yes, tomorrow…….I will have all the bounty and only a little butter, maybe no butter at all. I will steam those veges and add no ice cream on the pie…..lettuce without dressing and potatoes without the cream. I can be sensible, I can be healthy, I can be moderate…..after all tomorrow is another day! But for tonight…
“Where’s the ice cream?”
Blackberry Pie
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Boy, can I relate.
Hi Billie! In a few days I will be starting my annual cleansing diet. Dr Ann Louise Gittleman’s book “The Fat Flush Plan” makes it easy to drop pounds and get back on a more prudent life plan. When I follow her two week cleansing plan I lose weight and the cravings disappear. If you want to hear more I will be happy to share what I know. Yesterday I was reading the “Anticancer: A New Way of Life” by David Servan-Schreiber and there is a chapter in his book about foods that actually feed cancer! Guess what? Same old foods we know add weight: white sugar (or anything that causes blood sugar to spike), white flour, white rice, white pasta the usually suspects. The good news is that the foods we love help keep us healthy as long as we are not coating them with hydrogenated oils and sugar. Cancer fighting blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, cinnamon, tumeric, ginger, garlic are just a few of our heros! I will be writing more about the diet in my blog. I think it will keep me inspired. Good to hear from you. Big Hugs.