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Day 79: Temptations Lurk Around Every Cannes Corner
Bonjour de Cannes!
I’m only 11 days away from three months without sweets. A bit strange to me that friends and readers of the blog wonder if I am actually not eating sweets, as if maybe it’s just a blogging concept. Like I’m chowing down on French macarons (yes they are spelled like that) while typing posts about how much I miss desserts? Um, no.
I went to rent a car the other day from Nice’s best car rental agency, Elite, and my friend Stephane who runs it, saw me eating from a bag while he was writing up my reservation. ”I thought you were not eating candy?” he said. (When you’re on Facebook, spies are everywhere.)
I showed Stephane that there were only almonds and raisins in the bag. Raisins actually seems like cheating but only for some crazy-ass purist who doesn’t want a drop of natural sugar or processed sugar in her body. I’m still just avoiding candy and all desserts. That’s hard enough, bitches.
So the point is – I am doing what I set out to do on Feb. 28, 2010. Sometimes it seems almost easy, meaning I don’t crave sweets a lot or feel too deprived. But just when I start to smug up and think I have this beating-candy thing down — I turn a corner, as I did yesterday in Cannes, and first see two girls eating ice cream cones. Then I walk by the above boulangerie and see the macarons.
I get hit hard and immediately feel – I want some of that and I want it now and how can I continue not to have the stuff I want?
But the secret for me seems to be… about five minutes after I turn away from looking at the macarons and the girls with the ice cream cones are long gone, I forget about my jonesing and it passes.
Sounds too easy, true. And I don’t know about you, but the minute I get complacent and think I have everything under control, boom comes the big sledgehammer in the sky to take me down a peg.
But… it keeps me on my hooves.
Ta,
