When All Else Fails, Add More Wine

I don’t have any cool recipes or neat kitchen tricks, and I should have posted this two weeks ago, but I wanted to pop in and say this: Please don’t punish yourself for how you ate in December.

I don’t know about you, but I have been bombarded with weight loss type ads the past two weeks, and it just makes me so angry. Life is hard as hell as it is without that nonsense.

If your December was like mine, it was cheesier, boozier, and more chocolately than the rest of the year. And it was GREAT! And the thing to remember is – you don’t eat like that the other 11 months out of the year. Hell, you probably didn’t even eat that way all 31 days of December.

You don’t have to do penance in January for what you enjoyed in December. You don’t have to slash your calories, or risk injury from over-exercise. Personally, I’m back to my “regular” eating patterns, with an extra salad here and there for good measure, and I’ve just stayed consistent with my yoga. I’m not going to starve myself or injure myself because I may have put on a couple pounds in December. You shouldn’t either.

Oh, and another quick thing – we’re having our first snowstorm of the year, and I realized that I don’t have my favorite snow day foods in the house. 😭

Around here it’s chipotle cheddar grits (the trick is chicken broth instead of water) and/or brownies. I’ll be making a point of fixing that before the next storm comes through on Friday. Winter has only just started – make sure you have your snow foods, too!

There will be holidays and snow days. There will be cookies and wine and brownies and cheese grits. It’s not every day. It’s not even most days. Block the weight loss advertisers and enjoy your food.