I’m taking a break from the grandmother theme….for today.

Instead I’m going to blog about themes, in general.

My life seems to revolve around themes. The same old themes and messages keep coming up over and over again. It’s like a boring play that plays again and again until I learn what I am supposed to learn.

My latest theme has been about messing up in the eleventh hour. Or basically doing really well for the first ten hours, and then boom! I sabotage my success.

Let’s take food, for example. Yup. I stick to my food plan for the entire day, and I mean perfectly for whole ten hours of the day. From seven in the morning when I wake up…all the way until five in the afternoon, I eat all the right things. Healthy breakfast, healthy lunch, healthy snacks in between.

And then at five pm, I do the old “seafood” technique. It’s a lame joke but you get what I mean. I see food…………and I eat it.

Today it was onion rings.

Yesterday it was french fries.

The day before it was chocolate.

The day before that it was chicken (a whole lot of chicken).

Now please don’t ask me why I had all these sinful foods in my house (except the chicken). I don’t know the answer to that question right now, and anyway, that is NOT the subject of this blog. We need to stick to the theme. Okay?

I should have quit eating while I was ahead. And then I’d be fine. Down on the scale the next morning and not beating myself up for a stupid evening binge.

Another area that this theme comes into play is when I meet together with friends at a class.

I share, and discuss and tell stories, and I listen (sometimes….).

But rather than quitting while I’m ahead…I end up putting my foot in my mouth. (or think I do).

Maybe I’m too hard on myself. Maybe I”m fine.

But right now – in any case, I’m going to quit while I’m ahead with this lovely blog post.

Good night.