I didn’t eat any peanuts yesterday. Okay, neither did you but were you sitting at a table with an endless supply included in the cost of your meal? We were at a steak place that has barrels of peanuts in every corner and buckets of peanuts on every table. It is awesome. I love peanuts. I did not eat any.
I kept telling myself they were the spawn of Satan there to temp me into gluttony. I would have been partly right. They were tempting and I have good, logical reasons to scarf. If they are included in the price of the meal it would be good stewardship to eat as many of them as I can and then take my steak home, right? I keep telling myself that but my scale at home reminds me that I would be taking home more than the steak.
As a diabetic I have to watch what I eat and keep my weight down. Many of you have been there. You can lose the weight. We have all done it many times. The issue is that it keeps coming back. One of the culprits is free peanuts. Ounce by ounce, pound by pound the scales keep reporting the facts.
Peanuts are good. They are not evil. However I believe gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins and moderation is one of the seven ignored virtues. I am not good at moderation. I could have had a few peanuts and been okay. I know my limits or at least I did this trip. I refrained.
I had a six ounce sirloin at 250 calories and double broccoli at about 100. I ignored the peanuts and declined the rolls dripping in butter. It was enough. This time.
But those peanuts looked good.
homo unius libri
Just a reminder, peanuts (and beans) contain soluble fiber, which cleans out your arteries, making you less likely to have strokes and heart attacks. Now the devil has another argument for those peanuts!
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