Ellis
You are so funny
I absolutely positively have to eat chinese once a week. I used to eat it like 3 times a week, and my DH can't live without it at least once a week and I'll be damned if I'm gonna let him eat it without me!
When I go,I get egg drop soup and order my chicken, shrimp, and scallops meal with broccoli and mushrooms only (I don't like most veggies) and I don't eat any rice with it. I drink water like a madwoman while I'm eating it. I tend to gain a pound in water weight the next day from the salt retention, but by the day after that it's gone. If its what you love you can't tell yourself you can never have it. Just resign yourself to making the best possible choices you can in the situation and you'll have no reason to feel guilty. Like pebbles I save the red meat for eating out at like a steakhouse that way I am only eating it every now and then.
We used to get together with the same friends once a week and go out to dinner, but we switched it because of money issues to eating at eachother's houses. It saves alot of money and because I help prepare the meals I make sure there is something that I can eat. Plus, we don't feel like we need to hurry and leave after we're done eating we can just hang out.