If I could do one thing the next 3 weeks, it would be a vacation from my type 2 diabetes, weight issues and actually, my health entirely. Even one day seems like it would be divine.

Warning - "food fantasies" follow.

I would eat pastries for breakfast, and have another one or two for a morning coffee break (I do love me some carbs). Perhaps a nice Eggs Benedict. And oh, yes, I would have pumpkin spice lattes until I shook from the caffiene.

I would eat homemade cream of mushroom soup for lunch, or a nice lobster bisque, full of heavy cream. Then I would take a nap, just because I wanted one, not because my blood glucose was at 200.

Homemade cookies with full-sugar cocoa and lots of marshmallows for afternoon snack.

Dinner might start with more soup - French onion with a thick slab of French bread and lots of toasted cheese on top. A thick, rare steak with a real, white, baked potato smothered in sour cream and chives might be my main entree.

Dessert, well, I can't even begin to choose. Perhaps the aptly-named Death by Chocolate, or a hot fudge sundae, or carrot cake with a thick coating of cream cheese frosting.

It sounds very good today for whatever reason. But I must drag myself back to reality and remember what I would feel like if I really ate like that.

I would feel "thick" and totally lethargic.

I'd probably have a headache, and most likely a tummy ache as well.

I would get on the scale the next morning and have gained 4 or 5 pounds which would depress me even more than the assault on my body chemistry.

It is so not worth it, but it sure sounds good today.