All You Can Eat
I went over to mava's last night to see her before she flies off to New York. I did wonder if she'd be frantically rushing round, but as it turns out she'd not got much left to do, so we went out for a meal to a nearby "Eat as much as you can" Chinese Buffet place that we'd been to before, that serves gawjus food. Unfortunately it really isn't the best food if you're on a diet, even if you do restrain your intake!
I didn't restrain my intake (well - I suppose I did - I stopped before I threw up!) but even so had three platefuls. Unsurprisingly, I weigh newarly a kilogram more than before, although I suspect some of that is just the mass of the food rather than calories, and may well dissappear over the next couple of days. Not sure I'm going to make my target of a stone by the social, but I shouldn't be far off. I certainly don't plan on missing the sosh, but I might stick to healthy stuff (lime and soda - fanks Wumbly!)
I think part of my problem is that I find it all too easy to eat food like that from last night - it gives me a lot more pleasure than diet type food, and once I tempt myself with some it's easy to slip back into bad habits. Okay - in theory I don't have to have any more, but once I've done it once it's easy to go for some more sausage in batter and chips type stuff (as I did before the last two socials!).

11 Comments:
naughty naughty - but once in a while is ok
The 48hr rule gives you 2 days to compensate and make atones for your overindulgance
;o)
48 hour rule?
wossat??
yeah what rule?!
As long as you enjoyed yourself bear - that's what life is about
Sure - but at the moment I have goals (which will involve enjoyment long term), and I may have to show some restraint and not just enjoy myself with short term stuff
oops - had a few biccies today as well - think it's the boredom!
nothing happening at wuk at all - *such* a waste of time
at least being female i can blame totm!
There is no such thing as diet-type food or other food. It's all just food. Awareness of what you eat is the key. So, if you have a bout of high calories, low nutrition meals, then you can balance them out over a few days or a week. It's not punishment v. treat. It's food. It's fuel. And yes, sometimes it's nice to eat yummy stuff. Small changes, like the lime and soda, like smaller portions, like saying no to biccies 4 out of 5 days a week. Things like that add up. They really do.
There's a vending machine yards away from where I sit in my new job. It has all those chocolate bars, crisps and things in it. One of my objectives between now and when I leave is *never* to put money in that machine!!!!! Managing ok so far :o)
Bear, eating food is important. Eating food and feeling guilty about it afterwards is not. Why don't you do what Will suggests and compensate for it by running extra milage or getting on the bike. Plus now Lady M is away for the week... you'll have plenty of time to do so!! Plus in the coming week, if you're anything like me - being single means not being arsed to do any proper cooking which results in cup-a-soups and bread... hence more natural weight loss!
:-D
'snot guilt exactly - just a bit peed off 'cos I'll have made not much progress this week.
Doing a 10k tomorrow, otherwise I'd have been out running, biking and so on today
Will do more o f it once the 10k's over
wise words on here
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