After Every Meal

It's been almost a month since I hopped onto Josh's diet wagon and, overall things are going great. I've been sticking to our dinner plans, eating lots of veggies and staying away from processed foods as much as possible. In fact, I was so excited about my progress that I bragged to Josh that I had cut back dessert to once a day.

Me: "And I didn't have dessert tonight because I had a cookie for lunch today."
Josh: "Wait. How often do you NORMALLY have dessert?"
Me: "After every meal except breakfast, like most people. But sometimes I have it after breakfast too."
Josh: "Seriously?!"
Me: "Yes. Why? How often are people supposed to have dessert?"
Josh: "Um, like maybe 3 times a week."
Me: "What?!"

Thus began a heated debate over the acceptable instances of dessert in a normal eating plan. Now, would I love to have a piece of chocolate cake or ice cream sundae after every meal? Yes- that would be awesome. Do I? No. Dessert is anything from a small handful of fruitsnacks to cocoa roasted almonds to a bite-size snicker bar.

But Josh argues that it's not about dessert per se, it's about my sugar intake. All those little sugar grams add up and that's what gets people into trouble. He blurts out "If you want to lose five pounds for this race, you can't have dessert after EVERY meal, Ashley."

In normal Ashley fashion, I cross my arms and start walking faster in a huff. It's not fair. I'm fighting with feelings and he's fighting with facts. Clearly, it's an injustice and he is wrong.

We didn't come to an agreement. But he did offer to make "Ms. Trunchbull's Chocolate Cake" from my favorite book, Matilda, as a peace offering. I happily obliged- but we'll save it until AFTER the race.