Teeter-Totter

I am working on improving my social life, which is good. What is not good, is that I am not balancing my food intake while at these social gatherings. It's easy to eat what you need to eat when it's just you and you're at home, or work--really any comfortable and familiar environment.

This past week I met up with an old friend for dinner with his family and we had pizza...now pizza isn't inherently bad, but when I eat 3 pieces and then have a couple of chicken wings instead of having just 2 pieces of pizza and stopping it becomes terrible. It feels horrible to have one meal be such a giant debit from the daily calorie bank.

I did a similar thing on Saturday when I went to Cinebarre with friends. It is a local movie theater where you can also eat dinner. They have these amazing fried pickles. So I had a (yes 1) fried pickle that a friend bought in an attempt to be good. Of course then I end up ordering a cheeseburger and fries AND onion rings. My only saving grace was that I did not at all like the batter on the onion rings so I ate one and a half. But oh my I demolished the burger and fries and it was soooo good. I had to force myself to enter in the meal honestly to sparkpeople.com. It was a good thing I did because whew I nearly had a heart attack.

Little splurges like that are ok every once in a while but not twice in a week period, and not on a week where I haven't been able to work out because I've had bronchitis.

I have a dinner date lined up for this week and next. What I need to do is find tasty calorie friendly meals so that I can enjoy the food and conversation without feeling that guilty pang. Practice makes perfect right :)