Quandary

OK so.

I am on vacation.

I am on a diet.

Now what?

I feel like vacation should be relaxing, freeing, time to sleep late (Ha ha just kidding you have a toddler), time to buy fun books, time to look up recipes for mixed drinks that I would never make the rest of the year.

But. What if I go off the deep end and can't come back to the straight and narrow? (Excuse the mixed metaphors, I'm trying to write in a hurry.) Giving up diets after a week or two is sort of an MO for me. Sort of why I'm writing this blog in the first place. What to do, what to do? This morning we went to a wonderful little restaurant and I had french toast made with currant bread and stuffed with house specialty apple sauce. It was wonderful and definitely qualified for my "treat" of the day. But then later my younger brother and I were out together and he had been incredibly long-suffering and thoughtful throughout a long shopping trip and I offered to spring for gelato and have a "moment." The right move for the relationship, probably not the right move for the diet. It also was definitely not the best gelato ever, thus breaking my rule of only eating treat foods that are really worth it.

I am sitting here waiting for my cousin to make cookies and then the family is watching a movie together and I can just see more and more of these moments coming at me. And relationship is SO important to me (I'm an INFP on the Myers-Briggs) so I really hate to hold myself apart from all those moments. And (honesty!) I really hate to miss out on all those treats.

Sigh.

What am I going to do?