After I got my 229 cholesterol reading last fall, I've made one change to my diet -- I've cut out my post-dinner potato chip habit. It's been hard but I would say I'm down to about two nights a month of binging on chips. I think that's pretty good.
To be honest, I'm not really sure why I decided I needed to break the potato chip habit. For one thing, all the bags of chips I've looked at say that they don't even have any cholesterol in them. But, I needed to do something. So, in my infinite wisdom, I cut out the chips.
I should feel good about myself, right? Unfortunately, that's not possible. You see, I've switched to dessert. Now that I know I'm not going to treat myself to chips, I've gone right to the sweet stuff.
As I'm typing this, I just finished off my fourth sugar cookie. Kim made a fresh batch using my mother's recipe earlier today. When I got home, they were just sitting there on a plate. Not only did they look pretty good, but there was also only one piece left of the butter creme-filled chocolate roll.
We bought the chocolate roll (two of them, actually) on Saturday. You see, after Friday's dinner, I asked if we had anything "creme-filled" in the house. It seemed like a logical question. Hearing that the answer was "no," I resolved to change that. So, on our Saturday trip to BJ's, I selected a chocolate roll. Starting that night, I had a slice -- or two -- of the chocolate roll for five nights straight. That chocolate roll was pretty darn tasty. Then again, so were the sugar cookies.
I'm pretty sure there's no cholesterol in either sugar cookies or butter creme-filled chocolate rolls. If I'm wrong, please don't tell me. I'm on to something good and I wouldn't want to mess it up.
This is where the magic happens.
