Cerulean
Silver Member
You may remember that during the first few weeks of this weight loss, I was in a show and in pre-production week when we were spending long days together as a cast, the director kept on asking me if I'd eaten and I had to evade questioning quite carefully. You may also know that when I do day long auditions I usually take an extra bar just so I 'look' like I'm eating even if I don't need it at the point I eat it.
Well - today the director brought food for us - simple enough - it's like the cake table at work - just thank them and look like you took something. Oh no. Part of the rehearsal process was actually eating.
Luckily it was croissants and jam and someone else had a wheat intolerance so abstaining didn't look that odd - the jam did not interest me at all but the director said 'If you don't want to eat can you please make all the motions of pretending to eat' So I spent 5 minutes with a ripped-open freshly baked croissant in front of my nose and chewing. It was fine - just - a bit weird. Not torture - but just made me sigh a bit because I did fancy it a bit - but I knew that the carbs would just send me into a sugar crash. I explained it saying 'I'm on a low carb diet at the moment and have been for ages - if I have one bite of something that carby, I will end up sitting in a corner mainlining them' and another actor agreed that this is what would happen so I didn't look like a freak. Phew.
But yeah - never had to actually had to hold food in front of my face and pretend to eat it before - always surprising, abstinence!
Well - today the director brought food for us - simple enough - it's like the cake table at work - just thank them and look like you took something. Oh no. Part of the rehearsal process was actually eating.
Luckily it was croissants and jam and someone else had a wheat intolerance so abstaining didn't look that odd - the jam did not interest me at all but the director said 'If you don't want to eat can you please make all the motions of pretending to eat' So I spent 5 minutes with a ripped-open freshly baked croissant in front of my nose and chewing. It was fine - just - a bit weird. Not torture - but just made me sigh a bit because I did fancy it a bit - but I knew that the carbs would just send me into a sugar crash. I explained it saying 'I'm on a low carb diet at the moment and have been for ages - if I have one bite of something that carby, I will end up sitting in a corner mainlining them' and another actor agreed that this is what would happen so I didn't look like a freak. Phew.
But yeah - never had to actually had to hold food in front of my face and pretend to eat it before - always surprising, abstinence!