Stuffed or Starved

Stella: I just wanted to say that I love food. I don’t understand people who don’t get excited about eating delicious things and “eat just because they have to.” We have nothing in common! My whole entire day is sometimes wrapped around what I am going to eat. My question each morning is: What’s for dinner? I am also what you might call a dessert-aholic. But it’s okay because I am not in denial. In fact, I possess the ability to be 2 entirely different people. There is “Stella on a Diet,” who only eats things like carrots while running in place & doing 30 jumping jacks… And then there is “Stella NOT on a Diet,” who knows that this cookie is going straight to my hips and I just don’t care… I’ll have 3 more!

Loki: Oh yes, you are very Jekyll & Hyde with your dieting. Can I just say that you are much happier when you are in the "Stella NOT on a diet" mode?! She is the fun one... I hate to diet. But if I’m not on a diet, I overindulge too. Desserts are not my weakness though- Mine is Bread! I can eat a whole order of Chinese fry bread! (I made myself sick one time doing that. But Big T doesn’t like bread, which is why that order of fry bread was ALL mine!) I always eat all of his left-over crust from his pizza. That sentence sounds gross.. But really, he just gives me his scraps. Then I feel like I just stuffed my face. It’s not good when you eat more than your manly man husband...

I will say that our family has some serious willpower though. If I AM on a diet then I will not cheat. I think I went an entire year of eating no carbs. I lost some serious weight…and a gallbladder because of it too. I do better on diets that tell me exactly what to not eat other than to try to just eat healthy. There is some serious misrepresentation on “healthy” options! Stella & I looked up the nutritional menu to Zio’s. I was going to get a salad, but even the Grilled Chicken SALAD was 1270 calories and 66 grams of fat!!! Meanwhile, the Fettuccini Alfredo was only 300 cal and 9g fat. Ridiculous.

Stella: What? You just like the "fat me" over the "skinny me." I agree- our family does have willpower. Just think about our aunt Chocolate Chip who runs marathons at age 40 and can therefore strut around in a bikini at the pool! Even ole Nana Bess has been running 2 miles with me & doing Pilates every morning! But dieting is a curse in our family. We go UP. We go DOWN. Our Gma Modern can talk day & night about different diets (as I’m sure Loki could too) and I just can’t help but wonder if I’m gonna have to still do this at that age. Why can’t we all just be naturally thin & live off of chocolate & icecream & cake?!!!

Loki: Yes please??! I would like to live off of pizza and Mexican food. I hate those dumb little skinny girls who can stuff their faces and never gain an ounce. Surely that catches up to them sometime. I don’t want to be on this diet for the rest of my life! Why can't you just work really hard and get to a perfect skinny size and then just be frozen there? (Like a vampire!) I have done all of the wierd diets out there... The Cabbage Soup diet. The Atkins Diet. Scarsdale diet, diet pills, and I even got the inside of my ear stapled once to help with weight loss. And I have had a body wrap that supposedly sucks out all the water weight.

Stella: Yeah, we're not NORMAL. Loki & I both have the very bad & unusual habit of chewing up something that we can’t resist and then just spitting it out in the trash instead of swallowing it. I shoved some French fries in my mouth the other day and decided right then that I probably shouldn’t eat them so I grabbed the McD’s bag to spit them out. As I did this, I was trying to show The Man Child how disgusting I am and the chew up ball of food accidentally fell out of my mouth onto him instead of in the bag. Hahah. Nothing is more fun than grossing your little brother out.

Loki: That is called an eating disorder... haha.. Even ChocChip will pig out on the weekends & eat as much food as she can in less than 2 seconds and then feel sick and moan for the rest of the night. :) But I'll admit that sometimes I'm so hungry at the end of the day and I dont have any good snack food to grab that all I can do is stick my finger in the peanut butter to eat before I starve to death!

By the way, can I just have cookies for dinner?