Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The Vindictive Doughnuts

It's been almost two months since I have started my diet. Last end of September, my doctor diagnosed me with the Fatty Liver Disease. It is when the liver is surrounded by fat because of unbalanced eating meals. The cause of the disease are excessive eating and drinking of alcohol. I am very guilty of those crimes. The effects of the disease are heartburn, fatigue, sleepless nights and increase in weight. I have been doing a 1000 calorie/day diet and have been successful. My daily routine would be eating unsweetened oatmeal for breakfast, veggies and white meat for lunch and the same for dinner with minimal amount of rice. From 175 lbs, I am now 139 lbs. It is a really big improvement. My life is hard especially with the constant temptation of food everywhere.

However, tragedy struck only hours ago. I was conducting research in our school library with my classmates. Then out of nowhere, one of my classmates invited us to eat at the snack bar. Incidentally I followed them to the snack bar. When we got there, most of the stores were already closed. The only store opened was Mister Dounut. And at that counter, I saw the most malicious object every spawned, a set of sugar sprinkled doughnuts. The rest of my friends are already picking their food choice. Temptations was getting out of hand. Then unexpectedly, I remembered that my classmate owe me 50php. My cheapness got the best of me and I asked my classmate to pay me the money so I can buy the doughnuts. Dreadfully, I order TWO DOUGHNUTS. I have no idea why I ordered two doughnuts, probably because in my previous fatty life, I've always ordered two doughnuts. I slowly savored the two devilish doughnuts of doom. The lustful taste of sugar melted the sanctity of my diet. I quickly ate both doughnuts. The most dreadful thing is that when I turned around, all of my classmates never bought a single food item. I was the only one who indulged in the abrogated sin.

As I was going back to our classroom, I keep telling to myself "don't worry, it was only a plain sugar sprinkled doughnut, I'm sure it doesn't have much calories". But when I went back home to check the calorie count of the doughnut, I found out that it contained 200 calories each to a total of 400 calories for each doughnut. The 400 calories was equal to the whole meal I intake everyday. I broke my sacred record of 1000 calorie/day because of the evil creations of the sweetness. I feel so sad right now. It feels like I have committed an immortal sin. Tomorrow, I'm going 30 minutes in the treadmill.

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