Death by Chocolate

Why is it I can go four months without drinking, have the discipline to run and train for a marathon, yet I still can't say no to the temptation of chocolate? Due to the Holiday Season there are tons of cookies and chocolate candies in the break room at the Hilton. This is not good for a diabetic. The first time I can usually walk by. But then I'll have a cookie. Just one. And then a piece of candy or two. By the end of the shift the tally is deep into double figures. Why do my co-workers and customers torment and torture me so? This is like putting out hundreds of little airline miniature bottles of booze for an alcoholic. Needless to say the blood sugar numbers haven't been right since Halloween. It's been one long sugar holiday all fall. I just gotta say no. I've got to be strong like Crazy Horse and fight for what's right not like his lazy fellow Lakota's who became dependent on the white man's goods. But that's another story.

All I can do is eat right and run. Today I got in a 6-plus mile jaunt. It was a warm 68 degrees but the wind gusts were from 30-50 mph. It was like running into a hurricane on the way out and like a sailboat with wind coming back.