Social Eating: My Survival Story

Ok, so this blog title is a little over-dramatic, but it's indicative of I feel after tonight's encounter with my arch-enemies...the party trays. Most everyone has that one friend that's guaranteed to play "drink till you puke" with him or herself (regardless of what everyone else is doing) at every single party, no question. I am THAT GIRL...but not with booze...with food. Ugh. Get me in a social situation and I loose all-regard for my diet, for what's good for me, for how full I am and...how sick I'm going to feel for the rest of the night after stacking 100 cheese cubes and a pound of buffalo chicken dip on my plate (then going back for seconds...or sevenths even).

Tonight was one of those nights that I had to deal with that kind of temptation. We went to an after-dinner gathering where everyone was asked to bring a snack. Every other thought I had today was about what food was going to be there and what I could bring to combat the urge to binge. I had fantasies of peanut butter cookies, peanut butter pie, brownies, cracker candy...see a pattern? When I finally got to the store I went directly to the bakery to get the brownies that I settled on. Wait...$3 a brownie? Maybe it was a sign. I wasn't down with buying a bunch of $3 brownies so I kept shopping. I settled with some sugar-free chocolate chip cookies made with spelt (delicious, btw) because I figured if I was going to eat a cookie, I should at leat do it with care. To be fair to others, who aren't watching their sugar, I got what I REALLY, REALLY wanted to eat myself...a big delicious pumpkin roll that I didn't so much as sniff when I took it out of the package. In case my little spelt cookies weren't doing the trick, I also picked up some of the best hummus I've had in my life and multi-grain chips. I ate a few cookies and managed not to lick the hummus container clean. I also had a few apple slices so..I feel that tonight was a success/survival story to be told. 

In other related news, this was my second day of sugar-detox. I was much more pleasant today and think things are looking up. :) Tomorrow is the weigh-in so we'll see if anything has changed. I sure hope so. I could use a motivator.

Take care everyone and happy eating! :)