Yes!  I made it through the pizza / ice cream / party… and I only ate a SALAD (w/o dressing) and had a bottled water!  I actually enjoyed the conversation, and after the initial 5 minutes or so, I forgot that there was even food around to eat.  In fact (deep inside) I felt a strange sense of “pride” as I watched other people eat stuff that I know was not good for them.  It’s strange being the “healthy” one in the group.  (And to think, I was always the one who asked for dessert half-way through the first course!)  I rock!

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Reasons why I am tempted to overeat tonight:

Pizza party

I will only know a few of the adults who will be there

Bowling party

Cake

Ice Cream

Coca Cola

Did I mention the pizza?

Stress:  I did my taxes today…

Reasons NOT to overeat tonight:

Hmmm…

I’ll check in later and tell you how things went…

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In various diet books I read that I should only weigh myself once a week.  That would NEVER work for me.  Why?  I know myself too well.  If I only weighed myself once a week, say on a Tuesday, I’d simply starve myself all day Monday, weigh in on Tuesday, and then overeat on Wednesday.  I weigh myself everyday so that I’m not tempted to gimmick the system.  I’m trying NOT to focus on the numbers and I know that if I weighed in only once a week, that’s all I would be thinking about during the week.  My only real options, because of the way my silly mind works, are to weigh everyday, or not weigh at all.

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