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April 25, 2006

Complete and Total Barf-A-Rama

I work for a medical company of sorts and this week they’re celebrating medical professional’s week or something like that. I work in IT so I’m not really in the know. But for a few of the festivities the company wants a representative from each department to partake. I got nominated for (drum roll, please) … the pie eating contest.

Why couldn’t it have been the balancing an egg on the end of a spoon from your mouth race?!

Yesterday my eating wasn’t too bad. I’m slowly scaling back my huge dinners (despite still eating at the mall). How’s this week going to go when I know I’m going to blow it when I scarf down apple pie on Friday? So far I don’t feel the need to prep for the contest by gorging between now and then. I plan to eat nothing the morning before the pie and minimally after. I’m strategizing on how to minimize the damage.

I could just purposely lose. Although that goes against the nature of my competitive spirit and I don’t want to look like a lame-o in front of my 98% male department. I think they thought it was cool when I didn’t completely protest being nominated.

I’ve come to terms with the calories and fat I’ve been sentenced to consume. I’m more concerned about the messy factor. I have messy food issues. When food fights break out in movies, I have to cover my eyes. When eating in public, my eyes rarely stray from the table because I’m afraid someone around me is eating messily and it might ruin my appetite (I suppose I should actually take advantage of that). I’ll save this issue of mine for another post, but you get the point. I keep replaying in my head the “Complete and Total Barf-A-Rama” story from the movie “Stand By Me”.

Posted by hopeful @ April 25, 2006 8:32 AM

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