Angel Food (lowfat)

Have you heard the one about the girl who ate nearly all of her Weight Watchers flex points in one day, and had nearly six days left before her points started over again? Not a funny joke, isn’t it? We’re not all points counters, I realize, but my guess is that many 3fc’ers can relate. Yesterday was one of those days for me. I went along swimmingly with my points counting until a bag of chips appeared in my office’s kitchen. There are not many foods I completely avoid, but I have a hard time resisting the salty crunch of chips. I had a bunch yesterday. Since I didn’t measure (who measures a binge?), I’ve no idea how many points I consumed but probably more than I wrote down. I could have recovered from the afternoon’s excess by eating the tomato soup that I planned to cook for dinner (I’ve a new recipe to try). Instead, I went with a can of coke, 2 slices of everything pizza, and a salad for dinner.

I’d like to blame my car battery - it chose to die on me last evening, prompting me to make a dozen phone calls to figure out what to do and prompting me to guzzle coke while I waited on the servicemen and to forego cooking dinner because I didn’t want to eat so late. I’d even like to blame the fact that I’m totally bummed to be away from my sweetie and constantly annoyed at work these days, which seemed to prompt the chips fest earlier in the day. Honestly, though, I really need to take a hard look at myself. Why do I let little stresses hijack my dieting? I always feel worse, not better, after going so way off track. It’s not just feeling emotionally worse and beating myself up over eating so poorly. My body gets all out of whack as it doesn’t quite know how to process all the grease. To boot, I am staring down six days of hunger as I’ve only a few measly flex points for the rest of the week.

I am trying to look upon my next few days’ worth of empty food diary pages with a steely-eyed gaze, but I’m wondering what to do. Do I just chalk up yesterday’s calorie laden cold comfort up as a missed opportunity for weight loss and start over with a full roster of flex points today? Or, do I just accept that I’ll feel very, very hungry until next Monday? I’m leaning toward the latter option, mostly because whenever I try to to just accept a “bad day”, I find myself on a slippery slope toward a string of bad days. I’ve never been good at rebounding from overindulgence, but some crazy part of me really wants to try this time. Am I being foolish for thinking that I’ll feel great on Sunday evening if I can say that I stuck to my points this week?