Okay. A three musketeers bar is 7 points??
Lame!
First week is going well. I’m motivated. Sticking to the points allotment yet not starving. Enjoying the new foods, the new recipes. Now all that exercise I’m doing is actually starting to show.
Here’s the thing: I like to socialize. I’m a social person. Sure, I recognize the importance of alone-time (I do love my alone time as well) and I get plenty of it. Still, I cherish my friends and family, and I like staying in touch with people, doing things with them. Consequently, Mitch and I enjoy going out to dinner, and we enjoy having people over for dinner. Naturally, this means cooking. And part of how Mitch and I show our love for others is through cooking!
This coming weekend is particularly challenging because I’m making a dinner for friends tomorrow, then Mitch and I have a date night ending with dinner at the Fireplace Inn, and then we’re going to a friend’s house for dinner the next day—and she kicks ass in the kitchen. So, I’m trying to plan ahead, calculating the point values of all the food, writing out my menus for the next three days. I even organized my entire Friday dinner from Cooking Light recipes! But already, I feel it in my bones that there’s this stress bubbling up, due to all this planning, calculating, analyzing. It’s a fear that I’m going to blow it somehow. That after a week of careful, thoughtful eating, I’m just going to binge or something. Or maybe my calculations are off, and I’m already way off the course.
I just started though, so it’s not surprising that it feels a little awkward. And perhaps even just the effort of putting any thought into a plan of eating for the next three days would be better than the alternative, which is to cast everything to the wind and eat and drink with reckless abandon (how fun!).
A couple of things I could do...1) Don’t plan huge food-based events three days in a row every weekend and 2) Don’t stress over it. Stress never helps. It just makes me want to eat!
That's it for now.
I am with you about food. I like to cook nice things. I hear some of the "ideas" in the WW meeting and think "How could you eat that crap!"
ReplyDeleteSo I don't. I'm very cautious about portion sizes but refuse to not cook nice things.
My real problem is beer and wine. It's like you can eat, or you can drink, but doing both just doesn't work. :)