August 03, 2004
we can do it
When I was in college, we had a name for very skinny people who walked around campus. We called them "Kate Moss wafer bitches".
I've been glad to be away from the constant obsessing about hips and thighs and food and fat grams and protein junk.
Yesterday, however, I went to lunch with Dr.Nurse. Dr.Nurse has always been really fit and she's always been interested in other people being the same way. I know she's medically savvy, but really, to talk about how much food you should and shoud not eat when you're at the table, that's not savvy.
We were in a place where the food was meant to be extra tasty. Except for the desserts. None of those looked good. PTAMom got some kind of mushroom ravioli, Dr.Nurse got some kind of reuben sandwichy thing, and I got (yum) sliced turkey and brie wrapped in puff pastry with a currant sauce.
Oh yeah.
I suspect it was divine retribution that Dr.Nurse liked the way my sandwich looked better than hers. She only ate half. The poor little thing couldn't fit any more in her tummy!
But she did have dessert.
I suppose what I want to make very clear to the big world (and to Dr.Nurse but I'm not really feeling like making an issue of it with her) is that advice on how to eat so that we're fit and healthy is no more appreciated than unsolicited advice about relationships or friendships or what kind of gas to put in the car.
Furthermore, I sure don't want to hear about that stuff in a restaurant. Julia Child mentioned that she did not go to restaurants to diet.
We can do it, kids. We can ignore that stuff at the table.
Posted by dotty at August 3, 2004 11:19 PM