My daughter popped into the kitchen where I was making dinner and said that she was making the dessert, My favorite Hines yellow cake with marble chocolate with milk chocolate frosting. I could smell it and I was ready for it.
Oh yea, two months ago I was diagnosed with TYPE 2 diabetes.
All night as I was studying and cleaning, I smelt this cake. She hadn’t frosted it, so I did. Yummo… I can just lick the spoon.. I can’t.
Just a smidgin off the corner. The doctors say I can have it in moderation.
No…. I better not.
Just a smidgin… come on Heidi!!!
Have you ever felt like that in life? Have you ever given in?
That little sin? Is there such a thing?
Did you ever pay the consequences for it?
Guess What? My story didn’t end there.
I got up. I was going to have a piece of cake I crumbled ..sorry for the pun.
The cake WAS AWESOME. Like most sin, it’s awesome when you are in the middle of it. Several hours later in my office, My blood sugar was at all time high !!!! and guess what I recieved for my smidgin of disobedience were these
and migraine!!!!
Like in all smidgin’s of disobedience it catches up with the best of us!!!
10 Comments
January 8, 2008 at 9:32 pm
:c(
perhaps you should take your family on your journey to a healthy diet. It may seem unfair to deprive them of cakes, cookies, and simple sweets when they do not have to worry about it. But making a few changes can keep both you and your family healthy. So replace the duncan hines cakes, with cakes that you can have, and so on and so forth.
Or try making cake from scratch with diabetic friendly ingredients.
-just an idea…
January 8, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Hello, Heidi,
I found your link over at Gin’s blog…
Oh yes, I agree, there is always a “price to pay” for even the smallest sin! Thank the Lord for paying the “ultimate price” for all of us!
I can so relate to your post about “crumbling” to chocolate cake, and I like your application.
God Bless,
Janet
January 9, 2008 at 12:23 am
It always starts with a thought, a smell, a sensation. I imagine David thought Bathsheba would smell pretty sweet after she got out of the tub. Yeah. I get where you’re coming from. I had to make a SKOR dessert for church the other day. I made extra for my son. (There’s chocolate on the top – the kind that keeps you awake at night if you eat too much). It started with a look. Then sin was conceived when I started salivating. I gave birth to it when I partook of it (again and again). Funny, the memory of the taste was long gone when I was still awake, staring at the ceiling, praying to God to help me fall asleep at 2am. He just giggled.
January 9, 2008 at 1:06 am
Hi Heidi! That was good really good. I haven’t yet been diagnosed and don’t plan too but God pulled me off sweets and gave me an ultimatum which I take quite seriously. (finally) We all get weak. I pray about it, I anoint my lips with oil and say : I will take up my cross and follow Jesus and deny myself. I bind the spirit of overindulgence and I loose self control, temperance and self discipline over myself. Have you heard of June Newman Davis’s Scripture Keys? She has weight loss scriptures in the back of the book and a lot of good ones about sweets. I’ll be praying for you…you can do it. Blessings
January 9, 2008 at 1:07 am
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January 9, 2008 at 1:31 am
have you tried the reduced sugar cake mixes that are common to find now to see if they wouldn’t bother it as much? (somehow that messes up the sin analogy though…)
January 10, 2008 at 4:36 am
Wow Heidi, that cake looked so good to me, I can see where you “crumbled” for a smidgeon. Keep in mind that all things in moderation only make us stronger against it the next, as opposed to depriving and depriving and then finally giving in and eating more than half the cake, or the sin, considering the analogy. I personally enjoy Splenda to sugar, but there are other alternatives. Life is too short to constantly worry about what we cannot have, especially as we get older. I personally want you to be around in my life for a lonnng time, so heed the advice mamasita and check out the “other” white sugars!! Love you!!
January 10, 2008 at 4:38 am
ohh… and by the way Miss Heidi….that was MORE than just a smidgeon. That was more like what I would have indulged in, haha.
January 10, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Hello Heidi!!
My *1st* post on one my my favorite blogs to read… hehe.
I’m at work and reading your blog on my lunch break. How uplifting. Work has been very very hard on me for the past 8 months, but I keep going along. (Something we can talk about on a coffee date sometime!)
I am very happy you got to eat your cake, that kind is one of my favs. Thank you for sharing your wisdom about temptation, so true! I also am glad I read your post above… it really got me thinking about my faith. THANK YOU!
I’ll be baccck!
With love,
Jenelle
January 11, 2008 at 8:16 am
Heidi, thanks for being so honest about your struggles with temptation! My best friend and I like to joke that if you eat it standing up, especially with the fridge door open, the calories don’t count! It’s amazing the lies we tell ourselves to justify our indulgences!
Self control sucks. But, it’s one of those things we all face in this process called sanctification.
Why couldn’t I have a hard time with the temptation of broccoli or carrots or something a little less unhealthy than chocolate? Why oh why??