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My Day in Food: Dinner (Last night)

Update on temptation:

Attended Junior League meeting, was steadfast in declining pizza. I was walking home from the subway, and my stomach started GRUMBLING. I think other people were actually looking at me, it was growling so loudly. I walked past a few more pizza parlors (this is NYC, after all, and there are as many pizza parlors as people) and had an inner debate: “Would it REALLY be SO bad if I had a slice of pizza?” My trainer (who’s now reading this, I think) would be glad to know that the angel in my head told the devil in my head “YES! It would be so bad to have it.”

So, I stopped and picked up some sushi because, in retrospect, my “dinner” was too small. It was even too small to post a photo of. It was the leftovers of the balsamic chicken from the night before on some more lettuce. So, I had two sushi rolls. I wish they had brown rice, and I wish there hadn’t been tempura flakes in the sweet potato one (have you noticed I love sweet potatoes?), but I think it was still a better choice than the pizza.

I got on the scale this am and weighed two pounds less than I did yesterday, so I guess it was an okay choice! That’s still one pound more than I weighed when I woke up Friday. No more overindulging weekends for a while for me!

Temptation

NYC is an amazing city to live in and even diet in! When I first moved
here, I took advantage of the great restaurants, the 24-hour
neighborhood grocery stores and—my favorite—SeamlessWeb.

For those not in the know, seamlessweb.com is a Web site where you can
order food to be delivered without ever speaking to the kindly souls
answering the phone that don’t have a damn clue what you’re saying. It
shows you what restaurants are available at the time you’re placing
your order, and it even stores your credit card.

Needless to say, the Thai and Italian places were excited to have me
move in. But even now that I’m eating healthy, SeamlessWeb is still my
friend. I can order from Energy Kitchen, a healthy place with lots of
lean protein and veggies, or from the sushi place if I go easy (or
brown) on the rice. There’s also Pump, where I went yesterday, which
is also amazing

You’re thinking, okay, I can handle myself at home, but what about
when I go out?

Tonight I have a Junior League meeting at someone’s apartment, so I
plan on grabbing a bite first so that I’m not tempted to eat the pizza
that I know she’ll order.

What if you’re going out a restaurant? I guarantee almost anywhere has a
salad or some kind of protein you can get. If not, make a concious
effort to eat as small a portion as possible and have something
healthier when you get home. I’m sure you know this, but try to get
any and all sauces on the side.

How do you resist temptation? Drop me an e-mail at theodora dot blanchfield at gmail dot com or let me know in the comments!