I think I've been hibernating

I'm on a roll, two blog posts in two days.  This is going to be short and weird.  I do not understand what has happened, I think that I have been in some kind of functioning hibernation, but have been awakened from suddenly. I am the grizzly bear mama emerging from the hole in the ground or peaceful cave where I have spent sweet time nuturing my family through the long winter, only to go tearing down the hill in search of berries, fish and whatever else someone coming out of hibernation feels like eating. Yum!, even berries and fish sound delicious.  I am eating like the world is coming to an end, like someone set free from a POW camp, stuffing my face and leaving the residue on my face, clothes and floor.  I even found myself grazing in the grocery store yesterday.  I ate a radish, (just to see if I wanted to buy any) a few grapes of each color, some samples from the deli, and when I got in the car, I polished off a bag of gourmet olives that were on clearance.  Since they were expired, I had to eat them quick, right? I even ate a leaf off of my tomato plant because it smelled sooo good. I spend my evenings looking at pictures of food and deciding what I am going to make next, I am creating my own recipes in my head for some random event in my future.  You may not have noticed, (because you can't see me) but I have gained 5 pounds in the last few weeks and am 9 over my best weight, all this while Nate and I are watching what we eat.  He has wanted me to do the South Beach diet, but I keep putting him off one week at a time, I've actually convinced to start his diet on Monday for the past 3 weeks.  It is now time to get serious, after looking at the easter photos, (you didn't see the ones I saw) I have decided that 4 out of the 5 pounds I gained ended up on my knees and calves. The other pound or two is split nicely on the flaps of my arms and belly.  So once we polish off the 2 loaves of banana bread that I made yesterday (one had craisins, coconut, and chocolate chips,"heaven on earth") I am down to serious business, but I may have to wait until I make all the strawberry jam first.

In my defense, Nate has knocked me down that slope trying to get the berries and fish too, okay, not the fish, he hates fish, but everything else in our path.  We did share the same cave this winter, that may explain it.