My Vices
We all have those things that we just can't seem to give up. Call it a vice, call it an addiction, call it bagel, whatever you want to call it. My vices seem to do more bad than good, rarely do I really enjoy them anymore.
Bagels
I have loved bagels for as long as I can remember. When I was little there was this amazing bagel shop in the city we used to get them from, they even had *pause for dramatic effect* pizza bagels! My favorite though is a toasted bagel with cream cheese, I could eat them for every meal, I never get sick of them. I do however get sick from them. Not like sick sick but they sit in my stomach for hours on end. I always eat more than I should, I can't just have a little. I try to keep little wheat bagels in my house but then I just eat 2 in one sitting. It's like they were sent to this earth to torture me.
Coffee
I didn't start liking coffee until I went to a party in my late teens and had to drive a couple hours back home to work that morning. I've been hooked ever since. Coffee isn't really bad, there are worse things, it just so happens I like my coffee with milk and with sugar. I try to use fake sugar and I do sometimes but I'm rarely a fan of sugarfree stuff. Whenever I don't have coffee I get a headache. Often when I do have coffee I get Acid Reflux. Coffee, I don't know how to quit you.
Sugar
Speaking of sugar, sugar hates me. I've said this many times. If I could give up sugar it would improve my life dramatically I'm pretty sure. I have cut down on sugar monumentally but I can't seem to really give it up. Sugar and I are never on good terms.
What are your biggest vices?
love love love BAGELS! and of course all other bread products… and butter
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Robin Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
@Shannon (The Daily Balance), hi, i’ve added you to my feed reader!
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skittles and starburst:)….and Jalapeno Kettle Chips.
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Robin Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
@Jennifer Lynn, i love kettle chips.
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Hmmm. Here’s a nice new poem I’m writing as I go… “Beer, oh beer, no matter if you’re dark or clear, my humble, hoppy gondolier… I love to watch you as you steer, through good and bad times, floating near, your sickly sweet draft I hold dear. And then, as with a flash you see, a fearsome storm you bring to me, and rushing off withhold my pee, unto the restroom I do flee. “UNLEASH THE KRAKEN !”, I do cry, and with a “woosh” I let it fly… The beer at last it finds it’s free, for it was only loaned to thee…
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Robin Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
@Manly Man, you are a goofball, i love you.
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My biggest food vice: sweets. Desserts. Cookies. Cake. Fruit just doesn’t cut it for me. It did when I was on that high-fiber diet during which I rarely ate sweets. I don’t know how I did it. I swear, I must have been insane. Sure I looked good. Sure I had a healthy diet. But I must have been cuckoo crazy insane.
Diet Coke. In a can. Surprisingly, I can now take it or leave it and most times, I leave it. I had to give up soda at the same time I had to give up sweets, and cheese, and white bread/rice.
I want to go back to my healthy diet. Several people have told me that Weight Watchers re-educates people on eating. Dude, I think I need to be brainwashed to actually like things that are good for me.
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Robin Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
@Barb, i once gave up all bread and sweets and starches for a month and lost 15 lbs, i haven’t a clue how i did it.
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Barb Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
@Robin, doh! We were temporarily insane! OK, now we have to get insane again. lol
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I don’t really know what my biggest vices are, but I am a big coffee drinker. You know what I found out? When I drink really fresh roasted coffee I don’t need sugar. It is flavored spectacularly on its own. When I drink the store bought stuff I still have to doctor it up. You might see if you can find a local coffee roaster that could supply you with some really fresh roasted coffee.
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Robin Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
@South Beach Steve, i’ll have to give that a try, though i doubt i could ever do it without sugar.
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I have to admit i love bagles but the ones I can’t say no to are the jalapeno ones at einsteins soo good witht he spicy spread – a rare treat, one I only indulge like once or twice a year. But to balance it out I always get them to cover them in veggies and I eat it as a vegitarian sandwich… mmm
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I loooooove bagels too. Especially cinnamon raisin bagels. Mmmmm.
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Robin Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
@Josie, bagels……………
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