Special Occasions are Challenging…

This week, my dad turned 50. As any normal human would do, we ventured out to celebrate via a meal. Luckily, the expensive steak place was a crazy wait so we ended up going for chicken instead. Still, the problem is, restaurants are so hard to resist things in. French fries are just so yummy and salty, and chicken fingers are all crispy and tender. Stupid birthdays.
Restaurants are such a problem for people on a diet. They serve huge portions, a lot of them refill your drink until you are exploding, and it always costs so much you don’t want it to go to waste so you just eat it anyways.
I know the tips you get on the diet websites, pack up half of your food, eat skinless chicken on a salad without dressing, eat before you go and drink lots of water to slow yourself down. All that is well and good but when your in a group of people and every one is stuffing their faces full its hard to not get caught up in the delicious excitement. So then how can you discretely eat a meal with family without screaming I AM ON A DIET at the top of your lungs?
I think, there really is no way. If you are a picky eater like me, restaurants are kind of a challenge anyways of being able to order something you will enjoy. Other than that when you are a fat kid like me its even more challenging to stop eating the delicious foods before they need to roll you away. I think that when you are changing the way you eat as I am trying to do (albeit slowly) you need to take charge and try your hardest not to be embarrassed. I still ordered what I normally did, but when I felt myself getting full I stopped. I ate my chicken fingers first and then ate the greasy fries after. I was actually too full after three chicken fingers and a few fries I ended up getting it to go. I also only had one soda and then drank water. Free refills are not necessary (despite the fact you pay for them whether or not you drink it…)
I think that part of the reason people always start diets in January is because there are not many special occasions in the winter months. Summer you have back yard barbeques, ice cream cones, and potato chips by the pool… It is impossible to resist the fatty goodness that encompasses the summer. Although winters challenges exist, they are all fairly close together… October-December then you restart in January.
Hopefully I can get my act together by summer.. It is mighty hard to find a bathing suit when you are as wide as you are tall…
Week 6 starts tomorrow. I am not looking forward to the weigh in tomorrow. Although I did okay at the chicken restaurant I then was taken out to breakfast this morning and a plate full of French toast and bacon was screaming my name. So good but SOOOO bad. I should probably go work some of it off. I need to build up some more muscle so it burns my calories for me…
On another note, I got my hair cut this week. I had originally planned to wait until I lost a lot of weight and do a make over type idea, but then I figured why wait? It will help motivate me maybe? My hairs a lot shorter now, a lot less to hide behind so I need to make the rest of me better to look at.
I will update you next time on my progress so far! I meant to do it this time but got distracted with french fries on the brain!