Question: How's the whole "Writing Diet" going?

So this whole food-awareness thing is making me really freakin’ irritable. I find that I think about food just as much as before, but instead of indulging, I’m not. I’m still eating plenty, of course, but I haven’t had chocolate in two days and I feel like kicking a door in.

Is this what Julia Cameron had in mind with her book?

Anyway, I am learning a lot. I am using food to soothe and comfort myself. When you’re the primary caregiver of two small kids, (and probably a host of other combinations of things), you don’t tend to get much, you know, comfort, coddling, pampering. This is why mothers love pedicures. Sure, we could do it ourselves and I almost always do, but there’s something about going somewhere and sitting in a chair and getting a leg massage and turning one of life’s uglier body parts into something pretty that makes a gal go weak in the knees.

I’ve heard there’s a book out now called “Porn for Women” and I think it’s supposed to have pictures of hot guys doing the laundry and emptying the dishwasher. Your life does become pretty unglamorous when you’re the one in charge of cleaning pee off the floor on a daily basis.

But I’m not complaining, I’m just realizing that I have used my Dove chocolates and my chocolate chip cookies to help me feel better when I felt low, since nobody was going to say, “you rock, Em” or “here, let me get that vomit stain cleaned up for you”. It just ain’t gonna happen. So food, or more specifically, “treats” have been what it’s all about.

Now that I am listening to my inner monologue, I can hear things like “I deserve a treat, the kids are put to bed,” or “Treat time, I just finished five loads of laundry,” or “the economy sucks, let’s stick my face in a cake.” Not particualry uncommon nor healthy.

But there it is.

Julia Cameron insists on writing whenever you feel like eating. Needless to say I’ve got reams of pages filled in already and it’s only Day Two of Project “Mind What You Eat”.
But the jury’s still out on the whole thing. I’m honestly enjoying the book, just not the sugar withdrawal.

So we’ll see.