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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Better safe than sorry with rationalizations

Breakfast -- Coffee, multigrain bagel, veggie cream cheese
Lunch -- Pad Thai with veggies and tofu
Dinner -- Avocado, tomato and onion sandwich on whole grain flax seed bread, mango

Yep, I failed at breakfast.  I have failed because I failed to plan or something like that.  I found myself having breakfast with my hubby at a local bakery.  The only whole/multi-grain thing I could find that did not come with eggs and cheese was the bagel.  (I deftly avoided the delicious muffins, cheese Danish, and bacon/gouda quiches.  Yay, Me!!)  I guess I am not committed to this enough to eat that bagel completely dry.  I opted for the low fat veggie version.  In my rationalizing brain, I figured that the veggie one was at least closer to vegan than the others.  Yeah, didn’t make much sense, like most of our rationalizations.

A saying I learned many years ago, so long I can’t possibly attribute to any one person, is, “You can go a week without sex, but you can’t go a day without a rationalization.”  My office partner can’t go 15 minutes without a rationalization.  She rationalizes everything from her lunch selection to her wardrobe.  It’s pretty exhausting just to watch.  You all know someone like that, I am sure.

I, on the other hand, try desperately to rationalize as little as possible.  You see, early in my relationship with my husband I told him about the saying.  He and I joked about it often.  In one instance where the rationalization was a far stretch – you’ve been there, don’t lie-- he extrapolated the saying to mean that the more we rationalized, the less sex we would have.   I was not about to risk that, so somehow, it has worked on my subconscious to make me rationalize as little as possible. 

Needless to say, I don’t expect to get lucky tonight, the herniated back notwithstanding, but I’m newly committed to not rationalizing any future straying from the goal.  If I do stray, I do it with complete awareness and not some veiled, specious reasoning.  Just in case.  Sex, I guess, works as another good motivator for me!