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What I Eat When the S.O. is Away Part Deux

We're getting a lot of airplay on the topic that fellow foodie Cynthia McKenna err, brought to the table. The question being, "What do you eat when your S.O. is Away?"

This response was submitted to our happy little foodie club by "Debbie." Thanks Deb, for giving us a chuckle today!

Debbie Writes:

Too funny.... When Ken leaves on a river trip and we are apart for about 3 days to a week, I start my foraging by eating fried chicken from our local Popeyes..... not because I necessarily like that chicken from Popeyes, just because it is a taboo food that he would not approve of.....

Not that he is such a healthy eater but he would scoff at my total disregard for fat content..... all the while he has candy wrappers floating on the floor board of his truck........

and I eat this chicken while I watch some chick flick that he would never watch in a million years.....My ritual of eating the fried chicken while watching a chick flick (in my pajamas) is a total rebellion thing.....

then the dinner for the next night will be a huge..... and I mean a huge bowl of macaroni and cheese..... Now that is my comfort food... I totally melt with that food.... And if my mother makes it, it is orgasmic.....

I have two comfort foods.... well maybe 3 if I count mashed potatoes.....and I guess I should since we are confessing here....

But my other comfort food is a huge, and again I mean a huge bowl of buttered popcorn with a gigantic glass of cold, cold milk.... When I eat that, I can go into a drug like stupor.....

Growing up, every Sunday we would have a huge afternoon dinner..... so That night, we would all gather around the TV and watch Walt Disney and just Eat buttered popcorn and (so we were doing a healthy thing), drink milk......The whole family..... no responsibilities, no worries..... And so if I am totally freaked out about something, I can eat popcorn And drink milk and find nirvana and become so relaxed, you would think I had just had half of my brain removed.....

For some reason and perhaps the root of my weight problems, it is not Just the comfort food itself but the quanity that I need to injest.... which could also merely be the fact that I over exaggerate my need for the comfort food, believing that my stress is so large that it needs to be matched with the correct size bowl.....

Ken will be leaving on March 18th for a week long river trip..... I have joined Weight Watchers (lost 17.5 pounds so far) and it will be interesting to me to see how I will react..... Through WW, I am trying to manage my quanity problem..... and am more aware of my mindless, continual grazing..... For some reason, I don't feel like I will go off the deep end when he leaves..... but then I don't know...

The great thing about WW is that it doesn't actually forbid you to eat certain foods, you just learn that if you HAVE to have something, you just learn to adjust your points to take it in.... More like a normal eating habit..

I enjoyed your article.... Been there.... thanks for sharing.... debbie