What I Would Do if I had Mega-Metabolism

Yes, this is for all of you with a cruelly denied sweet-tooth: a post about food!

I have to say, personally, I have a problem with emotional eating. In fact, one of my best friends at university and I get together every week for what we call "Emotional Thursday". Essentially, this is a day of eating the week's feelings out with ice cream and juice or whatever sweet/salty junk we feel like while we watch Disney movies. I think we've both come to rely a bit on this day just because university life isn't always as pleasant as people might want you to think.

I don't think I feel as much guilt about my indulgences as I should, but I do feel some degree of guilt. There are probably better coping methods, but I have to say that Emotional Thursday is pretty great, and I'd never want to give it up. As a result, this is what I would do if I had Mega-Metabolism (and hopefully a strong stomach):

1. I would have Emotional Thursday and perhaps Emotional Monday/Wednesday in addition.

2. I would eat the following:
a) ice cream in a delicious flavour usually involving caramel, peanut butter, fudge, etc. and topped off with caramel sauce and whipped cream.
b) chips of various flavours (but probably mostly sour cream and onion, sun chips, Doritos, cheezies, etc.)
c) I would say copious amounts of alcohol, but that would probably ruin emotional Thursday, so...
d) chocolate! Lots of chocolate.
e) crackers and melted brie
f) pop or juice or lots of chocolate milk
g) pizza (preferably with feta and pesto)
h) cake (carrot, ginger, poppyseed, disgusting store-bought ones...)
i) patisseries (eclairs, religeuses chocolats)
j) some amounts of candy (maybe those fuzzy peach things. Those are pretty yummy)
k) pie! (pumpkin, lemon, coconut cream...)
l) garlic bread
m) hot chocolate
n) cookies! Shortbread, etc. I should do a holiday edition of this!!
o) avocado sushi. Mmmm!
p) all of my favourite foods, like vegetarian lasagna and sweet potato mac and cheese. Mmm
q) regular mac and cheese
r) french fries or sweet potato fries
...

I could go on, but I imagine this is either torturous, disgusting, boring, or amazing, depending on what sort of person you are. Maybe I should add another stipulation... a guarantee of amazing cardiovascular health.

In any case, it seems mightily unfair that there are so many delicious things around that we can't eat unless we're willing to compromise our health. This is really my idea of a perfect world... however, in my perfect world, we would also need vegetables and healthy food. Healthy food is good too, I promise. Spinach pie? Raspberry salad? Yes, I think we would still need healthy food. But maybe we could go 50/50.

-Laura