During high school & college, every Fat Tuesday, my sister, friends and I wouldΒ celebrate Fat Tuesday by baking, cooking & shopping for our favorite BINGE foods. Committing one of the seven deadly sins:Β Pure Gluttony before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, was this Catholic School Girls favorite ritual. Ahh..the joys of pigging out. We had Pig Out Parties and Β I’ll admit, I was the leader & host of almost all of them. Β We brought favorite binge food & set on a platter, sometimes documenting by taking photos of our bountiful feast & gorge til, to quote Monty Python, “F. off. Can’t eat another bite.” Β We shared our Lenten Vows- giving up sweets, 40 days & 40 nights of NO sweets. Some of us less “hard core” chose the NO chocolate route. PURE TORTURE! Β The next morning, Ash Wednesday, a day of Fasting, we all awoke with Food Hang-overs.Β Sick from the sugar rush & carb overload. None of us wanted to eat, so fasting was not difficult. Β The remaining 40 days & 4o nights bonded us in pure commiseration. We would create concoctions to get around the “No sweet” vow. Peanut Butter & Rice Cakes. Yoplait yogurt with raisins. Apples & Peanut Butter. Most are too disgusting and embarrassing to write, but I’ll share one:Saltine Crackers mushed with milk, peanut butter & raisins. Β GROSS! To add salt to our wounds, our school had its Annual World’s Finest Chocolate Candy Bar Sale during Lent. Talk about Temptation! Β St. Patrick’s Day was usually exempt from our 40 day punishment, since it would be sinful not to celebrate an Irish Catholic Saint. Wink. Wink. Β Every midnight before Easter Sunday, we would call each other and ask, “are you going into the freezer to get your Chocolate Easter Bunnies?” Most of us did…at MIDNIGHT! Β How nuts is that? We would still have the sugar hang over/chocolate mustache at Easter Sunday Mass the next morning. Β Why am I writing this? Β To prove an ex-sugar-pigger outer addict can be saved. Β Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday and this year, I plan to do more volunteer work & give more to charity for Lent. Β No more of this crazy suffering & self sabotage. I mean, who was it benefitting? Β Besides it’s the little things in life that make me happy and having a little chocolate or a few morsels every night makes me a happier and better person, thus able, to spread more good in the world. P.S. I forgot to mention my classmates named me “most likely to be late for my opening night because I just had to eat the box of oreos, the jar of peanut butter & the bag of Β m&m’s…”
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mo – so ahead of your time — taking pics of your food long before it was THE thing to do! π
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Awesome work! Keep posting good material.
Thanks, Dotty!
Interesting article. Thanks.
I sure hope you all will have a very happy St patricks day!
And Happy St. Pat’s to you, too!
hooray, your writings on theater and writing much missed!
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I really enjoyed the site. It??s always nice when you read something that is not only informative but entertaining. Greet.
That makes me smile!
Ok Maurie—I know I was part of the sabotage!!! I remember stuffing ourselves silly with “bin food”-yogurt maltballs, etc. and then heading for the health club to “work it off”. It’s amazing we werent all sick!!! Happy Fat Tuesday!!!
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All I can say is it’s true and go goo goo clusters!
You are awesome! We need more people like you. π
Ditto!