10:30 am, Monday. 209 pounds. Loss this week: 5 pounds. Total loss: 8 pounds.
This week I learned that when I am invited to a party with large quantities of really good food, eating a small meal directly beforehand so that I won't eat there doesn't necessarily work.
I'm not sure what the solution is. Next time, don't let myself even have a few snacks? It's easier to maintain an extreme position than a moderate one. Next time, go late enough that people won't really be eating? Sucks when the party revolves around watching a TV show together. Maybe do like Emily does and bring my own special food so I have something to snack on while everyone is eating, but it's veggies & low-cal dipping sauce? I can still eat too much of that, but at least it won't do as much damage as eating too much fajitas.
On the other hand, I was also reminded that what goes on in a day can be taken off in two. Real disasters take time.
2 comments:
Fajitas aren't bad. Veggies and meat are fine. Guacamole is great for you. Tortillas get a bad rap, but if you had two ginormous fajitas, that would mean only two tortillas. Low cal veggie dip is much, much worse.
Not the items, but the quantity. I could eat the healthiest meals in the world, and if I ate until I was full, I would weigh 300 pounds in a year. A sensible meal with veggies and meat and rice and beans would have been fine, but that's not what I ate. Replacing a large amount of healthy food with a small amount of unhealthy food will still cause me to lose weight-- which is the goal here. Sometimes losing weight and eating healthy are the same, but they're not always, and I'm only doing ONE of those things.
I'm also not talking about Lite Kraft Dip as an alternative. There are plenty of things to dip veggies in that aren't made of crap. And since the dip is just a small amount per celery stick, I can get the feeling of eating a lot while actually consuming a lot less with a reasonable dip and celery.
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