I’m craving Long John Silvers, greasy fried fish and chips. Why is it that I usually don’t have a problem eating healthy until I have to go for blood work to check my cholesterol? I eat healthy everyday but when I know I have an appointment to donate a tube or 4 of blood then I start getting these awful cravings for either Long John Silvers fried fish which can’t be recognized as actually being fish, or a big juicy burger and frosty from Wendys, ooooh, or maybe some of their chili, which you just know is healthy – NOT, how about a foot-long Chili Cheese dog from Sonic! There is the Mexican Inn near work that has stuff that is fried, lard is added and it is refried then wrapped in a tortilla and fried again and served with lots and lots of cheese and they make their own chips out of corn tortillas, kinda like Fritos, and their hot sauce is made fresh daily and is served warm so like you have to eat a couple of bowls full of the chips because the hot sauce is soooooo good. Then there is the Corner Bakery that serves salads, but you have to walk past all their pastries, fettuccini, pizza and sandwiches, loaded with mayonnaise just to get to the salads which usually isn’t a problem, but I just know it will be today and don’t even get me started at the ding dongs, Oreo cookies and potato chips I’m gonna find if I go to the grocery store. Or I could stop by Niki’s and get some fettuccini with alfredo sauce that has ham, mushrooms and broccoli in it (hey at least broccoli and mushrooms are vegetables) and their rolls are soaked in garlic butter and I mean soaked. Oh well, I donate a couple of tubes of blood tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. so I’m going to stop by the Corner Bakery on the way to work, gets something refried from the Mexican Inn for lunch, Ding Dongs out of the snack machine for a snack and hit Niki’s on the way home. It will be a reward for not eating any of that stuff today and freaking out my Doctor by making my cholesterol levels go off the charts. He ought to thank me – I’m always considerate towards other people like that.