16th June 2015
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up
being the biggest step of your life!
Well a touch of travel sickness on the train kept me from
the free food at lunchtime, helping me to stay on track - there's a bright side
to everything and now I've been reminded not to read whilst I'm traveling. I managed to get first class tickets for
cheaper than standard class by returning later, which meant I bought mom a few free
goodies back for her to enjoy.
We had the excellent news that she doesn't have Celiac so
that's one less thing for us to focus on, I've just got to get her iron levels
back up now so we'll continue with the spinach in her nutribullet drinks and
I'm going to buy some Cheerios because apparently they're fortified with iron
and she likes them.
We all know eating out can be a real challenge, it was for me
yesterday, yes I could've taken food with me but I didn't want to be carrying
it on the train if I'm honest and I didn't want to get my own lunchbox out in
the middle of a meeting. Maybe if I'd
chose to I could've eaten before getting to the meeting and not bothered with
the lunch, that is actually what I did, I'd already had a bacon roll on the
train before the travel sickness struck, that set me back 10pp comparing it to
other similar ones on the esource app. I
still in me have that "it's free" mentality, because I got first
class tickets, you get fed, to be honest it wasn't very nice, the roll was
really crunchy, to the point of taking the roof off your mouth and the bacon
was like that bacon you get abroad which isn't really like the stuff we get from
our shops, so it was just 'food' gutted when I think about how I could have had
2 slices of bread (4pp) 2 slices of back bacon (4pp) and an egg (2pp) for the
same value and that would've been much tastier because I'd have had mushrooms
on mine if I'd made it myself.
Lunch was sandwiches and again at one time, sitting with a
bit of a buffet behind me, no matter what was on it would have had me feeling a
bit twitchy thinking about it. Not
yesterday, I'm not sure if I'm 'cured' or I just didn't feel great so didn't
care about it. I think I might be a
little cured because to be honest feeling sick hasn't stopped me from wanting
to eat in the past.
All the freebie biscuits and cake I was given went in my bag
to give to mom, I can take or leave that stuff to be honest, it doesn't float
my boat like being offered a gin & tonic on the way home, that was
accepted, I won't lie. I also enjoyed
the vegetarian falafel wrap on the train on the way home, I'll allow 15pp for
that just to be on the safe side - worth it though, I've even made those myself
at home since first having one, they are tasty.
So yes if I was to replay that day or if I had lots of days
like that because of my job, I would most certainly be investing in a coolbox,
because that "free" food, isn't really that fantastic and it's
certainly not "free" when you get on the scales the following week.
Planning is key isn't it, not just the food we just to
include but also our attitude, yep you can plan your "no thanks, I'm not
really hungry" attitude, fake it till you make it I say, of course don't
go hungry, you can plan to say, "thanks, but I've already eaten", or
do you know what, you can just plan to say, "no, thank you", you
don't need a reason, you don't need to justify your response.
So here's to a week of planning, of knowing how we're going
to act or respond in different situations we might find ourselves in.
Was anything I was offered to eat yesterday worth not
getting a weight loss next week, honestly, no!
So there's a question you can ask yourself every time you're offered
food this week, "Is that worth not getting a weight loss", most of
the time the answer will be no, focus on the no thank you BeYOUtiful, you know
it's worth it.
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