Chocolate, Pizza and Chia Seed Oatmeal

Chocolate,  Pizza and Chia Seed Oatmeal.

It has been a great ten days.  Full of fun and flavor – and success. 

A healthy spring cleanse full of greens, exotic foods never tried before and familiar ones in new combinations.  Smoothies of an entirely different kind green with spirulina, rich in vitamins and minerals.  Eight pounds of excess baggage left behind – pun intended.  It has been a great ten days.

 

I put my purse down in the nurses’ lounge. The table was covered with open boxes of candy.  Covered.  I looked at my berry delicious smoothie and took a long deep draw on the straw. Yummy.  I was satisfied.  For now.

 

Just one.  That is how it starts.  Just one.  Maple cream, my favorite.  Oh, and coconut.  I love the coconut ones.  And the mint melts in your mouth.  Enough.  I put the  veggie salad and  fresh spaghetti squash with homemade tomatoe sauce and fresh cilantro in the common fridge and begin my shift.  Oh, first I have one more chocolate.

Two hours  five patients, an ICU transfer a change of shift and a staff meeting later, Lisa Sue was on the phone.  “Pizza anyone?”

Oh, pizza, you are not my best friend, but my well planned, home made, nutritious and delicious food is still in the fridge waiting and I am busy. Pizza, how I love you in moments like this.  Warm dough, sweet sauce, meat, lots of greasy delicious meat.  I look in my purse.  “Yup, I’m in. “  I shout as I dig out the dollar bills.

I savor the hot oily flavor unique to the Italian delight.  One small piece, then two.  It is worth every mouthful.  Yup, it is.

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I sleep 8 full uninterrupted hours.  Eight.  Heaven.  I wander down stairs and open my friend the fridge and it is full of bright, inviting choices. Exciting choices. 

I have all the colors of the rainbow lining shelves and drawers waiting to be made into the blue and green smoothies that taste of sunshine and good health.  They invite me back into the ritual of the spring cleanse. 

I have no regrets about my choices last night. Why waste regret on something so delicious and in the end, really harmless. It is only the habit of chocolate and pizza that does you in, not the occassional indulgence.

This morning I choose a new dish.  I have soaked chia seeds and oatmeal in coconut milk.  I bake an organic apple and stir it into the gooey goodness, take my green tea and sit in a sunny corner by my computer and begin to type.  

Good Saturday morning world.