I had my first little hiccup yesterday, food wise. I was bored with what I planned to eat at work. It was just more of the same. Cherry tomatoes, carrots and possibly an apple. All low cal so I'd have lots of cals to play with for cooking dinner for The Main Man and me. But I heard the call of temptation. Heard it and answered it. I bought a bag of jelly sweets. It wasn't the biggest bag in the world, 100g, and it was all I had. I didn't go back for more. That in itself was a triumph. Usually I would have had at least two more bags of sweets, or some chocolate. I very much enjoyed them and made sure to eat them slowly, figuring if I was going to eat off plan, I would bloody well savour my ill gotten gains.
I checked how many calories were in 100g of jelly sweets and added them to my food diary for the day. It left me a little lighter for my evening meal than I'd wanted, but I'm glad I counted them in and didn't cheat. And when I made TMM pasta to go with his bolognese sauce, I shredded carrots into fine strips and used them like spaghetti. It cut the calories of my dinner considerably and still gave me a very satisfying meal. So I dealt with my unplanned deviation. Yay me! I'm genuinely quite proud of myself.
I should probably take that as a warning not to get stuck in a rut where my meals, especially at work, are concerned, otherwise I will find myself facing that sort of challenge on a regular basis. And just because I fared well today, there's no guarantee that I will succeed the next time.
As it turned out, by the end of the day, I even had 200 cals over so I had a couple of squares of very dark chocolate with a cup of tea while TMM and I watched telly. I'm really going to try not to do that every evening though, or I'll come to expect it and use the calories without thinking. I don't want to get into the habit of mindless eating.
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