Day Eighty-Seven: With A Little Help

One of the interesting things on these blogs is how few of us talk much about the support we get from friends. We do tend to talk about our family members, but not so much the friends. I have to say that mine have been instrumental. They've encouraged me, they've listened to me whine, and one of them even cooked a PCP-positive meal for me and offered to do it again (bliss).

Of course, there's the dark side, too. Some people have taken to saying, "When you can eat again, we'll do this; when you can drink again..." It's funny, but trying to gently correct them and point out that I'm not going to reverse all my results by returning to all my former mindless habits falls on deaf ears. In many people's vision of the plan, because the diet was so limiting and because it was such a well-defined time period, that must mean that it's the same as a crash diet.

I've said that I don't actually think I'll want pizza on Saturday or barbecue on Sunday or any of the other fatty delicious things people are planning for me. The plan is chai tea on Saturday morning, brewed with whole milk and plus enough sugar to make the spices pop. On Monday, I'll go to lunch on Wellington Street and get a bowl of noodle soup with fish balls and lots of greens. On Thursday, there's a big Sichuan meal planned. It's strange, but otherwise I don't care to be that indulgent.

(I'm a Tsim Chai Kee partisan. Love those giant fish balls,
flavored with something vaguely fennel-like.)

My near future is up in the air, but should be settled in the next couple of weeks. I've been in the process of getting a next assignment for a few months now--almost since beginning the PCP--and soon it will be over. As the time nears, and the phone interviews heat up, and different priorities compete, and the uncertainty ratchets high, it's a little destabilizing to be leaving the certainty of all these rules and plans for a yet-to-be-charted food and exercise future.

In at least one way, it's a good thing, though. I could really use a drink.