It’s bad enough that once a month you lose control of what is supposed to be your body and mind — for some anyway — but what does one do when hit with an OCC (Obsessive Compulsive Craving)?  I’ve never truly been a victim to the PMT syndrome — that was until last week. 
 
    I have had diabetes for about four years now (two years insulin dependant) and luckily never been possessed by the food demon at that special time of the month.  However, last week, for God knows what reason, when I was feeling fat, teary and generally quite pathetic I became obsessed with something “rich, irresistible and really cool”.  Yep, bloody TimTams.  I swear it was like being 
possessed.  I was ready to punch someone in the nose if I didn’t have one.  Frightening stuff.  Not only because I had become a TimTam sociopath but having diabetes and trying to go through a “GOOD” phase it felt like being tempted by the hand of the devil! 
 
    Thank God someone mentioned cheesecake.  My mind readily embraced a new obsession.  One piece of plain baked cheesecake would save me (fickle aren’t I) and wasn’t it a lovely coincidence that there is a ‘Cheesecake Shop’ on my way to Uni.  After wrestling with my conscience and breaking the land speed record, I pulled up and tore inside for my one slice to sate my craving.  Lo and behold though, “I’m sorry madam (!!!), we don’t sell them by the slice.”  Five minutes later I walked out with half a sliced cheesecake (“Yes madam slicing that will be no problem”!) tucked under my arm in a very conspicuous box. 
 
    I devoured my slice with a guilty look on my face, but was sated.  The remainder was eaten over the next few days, much to my  flatmate’s bewilderment. 
 
    Since I was diagnosed, I had never contemplated the problems that face ‘young ladies’ in the once a month craving department.  The usual cure for my friends is tracky dacks, Melrose (or equivalent crap) and furious devourment of chocolate and lollies.  The first two criteria do not pose a problem, but the latter does.  I have no solutions, just a really good whinge and a serious proposal to create a TimTam for us who are “glucose tolerance challenged”.