Posts Tagged ‘Denney’s’
Sometimes you just can’t go home again
The last 6 month have seen some changes for me: lost weight, reworking of my eating habits, regular (or at least semi-regular) exercise in the form of walking partway home from work (one added “perk” of taking public transit to and from work is that you don’t have to take your “vehicle” all the way home to park it).
So there came a time when I thought I hadn’t finished (I still have aspects of my “make over” that require work yet, and work is still ongoing), but I came to the point where I thought I might let myself “swing out” a little. You know, loosen the self-imposed shackles to “treat” myself a little, occasionally, but not so much that the waistband needed loosening as well as the self-restraint.
I am astonished to find that I just can’t do it.
I mean I am capable of doing it. I have done it. I just don’t like it anymore.
Case in point, after a night at work I thought I’d just zip down the street to the local Denny’s [Home page, Wikipedia] and have an omelette for breakfast. For those of you who don’t know Denny’s they’re an American chain of “family restaurants”, specializing in what I think of as “Diner Food”. Not quite “greasy spoon” style, but close. I didn’t enjoy it at all. Didn’t taste as good as I remembered, and my system reminded me strongly for hours that it just wasn’t used to handling that much fat in one meal.
Likewise for many of my remembered “comfort foods”; I’m just out of practice.
I’m a little saddened by this. However, I’m not sure “going back” is worth it. I know that I could both acclimatize myself to eating that sort of thing again, and learn to enjoy it … but do I really want to deliberately learn to eat worse again? Somehow that seems silly. Yet I must admit I have some very comfortable cozy memories of diner style food Sunday brunches with good friends, spirited discussions, and “bottomless cups of coffee”, and somehow that just doesn’t seem the same with yogurt and fruit salad, you know?
