Oddly it took much less effort to recover than I thought it would. Much like smoking, it takes way less planning and execution to not smoke than to smoke.  To not smoke, you simply don’t smoke. It’s the absence of activity. To not binge, I simply didn’t binge.  ~ Maureen Gibbons

Less planning, less effort, less conniving
to have my way but have others respect me,
admire me, believe I’m behaving as I should…
I’ve gone to drive-through windows,
the same order, day after day (though never,
of course, twice the same day to the same place
for what if they figure out I’m not a casual guest?)
but after the donut shop I’d move on to Dairy Queen
and sometimes across town to get a different DQ,
then before getting home I’d have the evidence —
paper bags, cups, spoons, crumbs, bottles —
to take to a recycle center and drop them in the barrel
because heaven knew I could not stop at a store
and drop the trash without making a purchase!
Less planning, less effort, less conniving
to eat sanely, to stop when I’ve had enough,
to be able to have extra time in the car without sugar…
It’s less effort by far to eat like a sane, healthy human.