This past weekend we hosted family for a birthday dinner for my son. He specifically requested hot dogs and french fries to eat. Great.
So, you combine hot dogs with french fries, potato salad, tons of soda, 3 containers of ice cream and one huge cake and you have a diet nightmare. Well, you do if you're me. Especially when the leftovers alone could feed my binging tendencies for a whole week. And binge I did, for the weekend. I ate more hotdogs over 2 days than I have in a year probably. And I enjoyed a piece of cake 3 days in a row for breakfast. And I ate all of the leftover potato salad by myself. I can't tell you how many sodas I drank - some diet and some not.
And how did it make me feel? Like shit. Plain and simple. After several days of "good" eating, my body was not happy with the change back to junky foods and large portions. Thankfully, however, instead of just beating myself up over it, I remembered that every time we eat we have a choice. We can choose to drown our sorrows over the bad choices by making more bad choices, or we can start fresh the next time we open the fridge. And in doing this, we can still achieve better health and healthy weight loss.
With this in mind, I started fresh today. And although my lunch wasn't ideal, it was better than hot dogs, potato salad and ice cream. And, when I weighed myself this morning, I was still at 190 and for the first time in a long time, I put on a pair of jeans and they felt less tight than before.
Food log:
breakfast: 1 cup cottage cheese, 1/2 banana and honey
lunch: 2/3 of a footlong chicken breast sub from Subway - it included mayo, mustard, oil and vinegar as well as cheese and veggies, 2/3 of a can of cheddar Pringles, 2 cans of diet dr. pepper
dinner: TBD though grilled chicken on salad is a likely contender
~C
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