Debauchery, sweet debauchery January 11, 2008
So, by the title, I can imagine that you’ve all deduced that yesterday was less than perfection. Kind of.
I started off with pumpkin oatmeal for breakfast, snacked on a pear and some string cheese, and had some pasta with marinara and 3 lean meatballs for lunch. I was proud of myself because I left the garlic bread alone. That’s like my husband not watching an Arsenal soccer game. But, dinner was where things started to go wrong.
We ended up going out to dinner with a friend at The Brewery- which has amazing food and, you guessed it, beer. So I ordered a pint. And we ordered the potato skins. I followed it up with the veggie pasta (which is in a cream sauce. It’s very light, but cream sauce none the less) From there we went to Starbuck’s- and I had a hot chocolate. Oh. sometimes it feels good to be so bad! But, I drank less than half my beer, and only ate 2 cups total of my pasta, maybe even a little less. I only had one potato skin, even though it was large. But it was all so good. I was over my calories by about 500ish, but, it all evens out with the rest of the week. And besides, I’m in this for life, and it’s certainly not an everyday thing.
Today wasn’t perfect either. I started off well with some oatmeal and string cheese for breakfast. For lunch, I was in a hurry to get kitty to the vet, so I had some Donalds. But I did my calorie research first and had a mcchicken and fries. We had subway for dinner, and all told I was only 30 calories over my mydailyplate calorie total. (Which, in all honesty, I normally give myself a range that is a bit higher than their total). So, my choices haven’t been great. But, I’ve only been over yesterday and today and the rest of the days were under the limit (even Burger Lounge day was under!) So. overall, my week average was still slightly under the calorie budget. Small victories, but significant.
In other news, my nasty chicken came back to seek revenge. Last night I came downstairs to find that one of cats had performed a recon mission and retrieved said nasty chicken breast. So I walked in on them feasting on my living room rug. Ewww. But that wasn’t all. No, I had the pleasure of then stepping in the remains of digested chicken this morning, barefoot. Double eww. The damned chicken is haunting me from beyond. Not only did it taste utterly digusting, but it even made my cats sick. Beautiful. Yeah, won’t be cooking that ever again. Unless, of course, someone I truly dislike comes over for dinner. So, if you’re at my house, and I make you evil chicken, take it personally.
Today was another bad day. My coworker is still being s jerk. And that’s just getting under my skin. But, so far, I’ve kept myself away from the pastries. In some ways, it’s probably good that things are going so badly. Between that and just enough small things to equal a gigantic splinter, life is pretty bleh right now. But, I’m still getting through it, without the need to drown my sorrows in saturated fats. I know that everytime I turn to food for comfort, I’m reinforcing the idea that food will fix problems. The only problem that food can fix is hunger or malnutrition. The rest of life’s problems are not caused by food, and therefore cannot be fixed by food. Now if I can only put that into practice when actually faced with the tempting food…
While I was on one of my gazillion former diets, I went through a phase of trying to reduce the appeal of tempting food by thinking untempting thoughts about it - like, for example, I’d be staring at a fried chicken leg and thinking “Ewww, look at all the grease and oil dripping off that thing, no way am I eating it!”
And boy, did that method do a whole lot of not working.
So anyways, what I’m trying to say is, any time you’re able to turn your back on junk food, it’s one in the eye for fatness. So keep right on giving those pastries a pass. (And somewhere out there, the ghost of Dr. Atkins is probably saying “Amen!”)
Hmmm…to engage in the act of eating food only when that course of action is applicable to a circumstance…I don’t know if I’m ready for that. But thanks for a thought to ponder.
Your last few sentences are going to be thoughts that I’m going to try to keep in my mind when I’m tempted by unhealthy food. Food is only for the sake of nutrition, not to make us feel better. Thanks!
I so know the feeling of stepping on cold cat yak. Eeeewwwwwww
Wow, that is the best way to help us all avoid ordering the chicken that I’ve ever heard of. Inedible to you, inedible to cats. “causes even cats to barf!” what a selling point!
Very insightful on the ‘turning to food to fix other problems’ - but I wouldn’t count the tea as a fix - it’s a brilliant solution!