The saboteur within

I sometimes wonder how many of us, regardless of our good intentions, some how or other are our own saboteurs. How often do we go to the store, buy some awesome vegetables, delightful fruit, some lean chicken breast, whole grain breads just to turn around and say: Well, let me get those pizza pops for the kids or the ice cream for them or the heavy duty cheese for the husband/wife (b/c he/she loves it) or the chocolate treats just in case friends come over. After all we cannot serve them something actually healthy can we now.
And then, as the kids go of to school/bed or the cravings start we suddenly find ourselves hunting for the very foods we bought, not for us, but the kids, spouse, friends, etc. My sweetie has no idea how often I would plunder some of her chocolate stash (she likes chocolate) that I had specifically bought for her. (being sneaky, I just grabbed enough so as not to be too obvious, piles of chocalate almonds are good that way, plus practically a health food right, having almonds and all:)) This is like displaying drugs in the house of a recovering addict. So next time you notice yourself grabbing all those "not so healthy" food choices in your house, ask yourself: How the heck did they get into my house? Did a nasty anti-weightloss magic fairy drop them off or did you by chance sabotage yourself.
And yes, us parents are allowed to feed our kiddos the healthy stuff, no need to feel apologetic about it. They might just thank us later, much much later:)
(Now that I got that off my chest, time to see if any of that ice cream I bought for my daughter is still hiding in the freezer:))
Be well.