the path to heroin sheik : a can of tuna and apple a day
The big picture is hard to ignore some days, yesterday was one of those days. The day wasn’t extremely stressful or anything. I talked to my kids on iChat and got lots of e-kisses from Viv. I didn’t get an unexpected soul-jarring bill in the mail or anything. I just miss Van and Viv a lot. Not sure why exactly, just did.
I did something moderately stupid to make myself feel better. I went to the grocery store and bought mint chocolate chip ice cream and a bag of salt and vinegar potato chips. I repented this morning (and last night) with 100 push-ups and 200 crunches, and biking 5 miles before work. I need to refrain from ultimately punishing myself by self-soothing via junk food. I really need to go grocery shopping and get some healthy food in this house. And the other side, satisfying that need to do something active to deal with the spare change of this depression – making music is a fine substitute for any of it. I do have an unfinished song waiting for some guitar parts after all.
I read another chapter of Wicked. I watched the Phils beat the Mets (nice to see Chase back). I laid down and watched The Machinist. Christian Bale was decent, but the real story here was how the hell did he lose that much weight for this role? I read some of the production notes about the film and he apparently dropped 63 freakin’ pounds by eating a can of tuna and an apple every day. The film was pretty good on the whole, very similar to Momento but with a skinnier lead guy.
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August 28th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Good grief, a can of tuna and an apple? After a week of that… ugh. Only my kitties would be happy on such a diet! Heh, when I saw the title of your post, I thought this was something YOU were going to do for budgetary purposes…
August 28th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Salt and vinegar potato chips are really yummy though and it is ok to treat yourself sometimes. Don’t forget that please!
August 28th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Ah, the fine line between lonely eating and lonely starving is approached!
Why not do a week of ice cream and chips followed by a week of tuna and apples?
August 28th, 2007 at 10:24 am
That movie was disturbing, not the least of which was the way that he looked. Frightening stuff.
August 28th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Since you didn’t ask for my opinion, here it is!
I think that there are times when you just have to do whatever it is to get through them. Tomorrow? The next day? Next year? You’ll do something different but right now? Ice cream and chips is a hell of a lot better than a bottle of whiskey, a pack of cigarettes, a pound of chronic or a pipeful of crack. You’re just getting through, not stealing dreams.
A little self compassion would go a long way here.
Christian Bale is supposed to be a complete freak. I’m pretty sure if they were paying you what they paid him for that movie, you’d eat tuna and an apple too. As Cindy Crawford says, it’s my job to look good.
August 28th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Chris – nah, not yet, although an ice cream and salt and vinegar chips diet is possible
tori – aye, aye. moderation is important, even moderation of moderation
lorrie – not a bad idea, i hate to think what a week on ice cream and potato chips would do to my stomach though
Marty – yeah, the first scene he took his shirt off, I think I said out loud, “holy ribcage batman”
Open Grove Claudia – well is it really good whiskey? kidding – for me it’s about the self discipline and will power to beat this depression and although i feel bad for eating like i was a 165 pound 23 year old, i can’t make myself feel worse for it.
August 28th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Ya know, I think there is research that occasional chip and ice cream binges are actually benefitial, I will ahve to look that up.
August 28th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
logo – perhaps a research team should be assembled and undergo some testing?
August 28th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
As long as you don’t dip the chips into the ice cream, you’re okay.
August 28th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
mamatulip – i just got the heebeegeebees from thinking about salt and vinegar potato chips dipped in mint chocolate chip ice cream… bulahulahahahaha (that is the sound of the heebeegeebees)
August 28th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
I cannot have ANY variety of potato chips in my house, as they all tend to travel down my throat in a single file. Much like the Dwarfs singing “Hi-HO, HI-HO, To Fatso’s gut we go!”
Stomach crunches?
No the teeth does the crunching and the tummy does the digesting.
August 28th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
If that’s what you do after eating chips and ice cream I’d hate to see how you punish yourself after eating a Twinkie!
Try Baked Lays and gelato. Less guilt.
August 28th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Love the salty snacks–love em.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Craig – I know, I’ve got the same potato chip blackhole that sucks them all into my belly too
Tink – that’s the reward of self hate
V-Grrrl – you know what’s my favorite thing about salty snacks? the saltiness
August 28th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
I am an emotional eater, too. Pissed off or sad, all I want is a box of Swiss Cake Rolls. They are my dark master.
The Machinist was a freaky movie, for sure. I heart Christian Bale more than anything and that was the one movie where I was a smidge freaked out.
August 28th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
There is absolutely nothing wrong with some mint chocolate chip ice cream every now and then. But I have to object to the salt-and-vinegar potato chips. That’s just plain wrong. Just regular potato chips would have been much, much better.
Hang in there, man.
August 28th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
I love vinegar and salt chips… yummm…
and have you had Ben & Jerry’s Cinnamon Bun… or Karmal Sutra???
I’ve been running on my treadmill everyday for over a week now.
August 29th, 2007 at 12:21 am
I read that Christian Bale undertook an amazingly effective mint-chocolate-chip ice cream/salt ‘n vinegar chip diet.
Really.
August 29th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Amanda – I had a similar reaction to hearing Rosario Dawson’s lines in Clerks 2 about the donkey show at the end.
Dorky Dad – I bet the next commenter totally blows your plain chip suggestion out of the water.
Terri – see Dorky Dad, told you. Karmel Sutra is good, I got that a while ago.
Jocelyn – I believe you a lot all the time.
August 29th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Sounds like a combination of food I would pick up for comfort. Um, but the push-ups and crunches not so much. Haha.
August 29th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Christy – I’d be lying if I said that crunches and push-ups help with the digestive process