First I have to say…
Hooray for Hump Day!!! One Thumbs up..were half way to the weekend!!!!
Last night I went out to my monthly Girls Night Out BYOB Gluttony dinner. One of the reasons I hate buffets besides people’s grubby paws man handling the line of food is the fact that I have no control, I eat to much. I have come to the conclusion this is also true in large group settings where food is passed to share.
Put a plate of hummus in front of me, I will continue to eat it until gone. Salad, let me have those last few tomatoes. This is all regardless of the fact that I have no points left. I think I do this for a lot of different reasons including hating to throw food out (topic for another time) but also, I have no self control.
I realized that if I brought a full sized wine to BYOB dinners I’d make a good faith attempt to drink it. Last month I switched to a half bottle, again, wine was in front of me thus I drank it. I pulled out the big guns last night and brought a single serving bottle.
Yes people, because I cannot control my consumption I have sank to an all new level…. Individual portions of Sutter Home, in the convenient screw top PLASTIC bottle. (oddly, the wine was not terrible, not really good, but not terrible).
So I think I now have solved my wine issue, next I need to work on the food. Baby steps, people, baby steps.
Jeans- Jag (2008)
Sweater- C3 (2009)
Shoes- Alejandro Ingelmo (2006)
Earrings- Ann Taylor Loft (2008)
Necklace- gift
LMAO at the single serving of wine. I think Kafka on Halsted sells wine “juice boxes” – with straw attached!
Cute puppy!
Yeah for Wednesday!
I love seeing Addison in the pictures! Too cute!
Awesome way to progress to plastic Sutter Home singles. Almost makes you miss the Bartles & James days, eh? 😉
Either you have lost more weight, or your weight has shifted. The last few pics, you have big definition on your waist.
WOOHOO!
Yep I am the same…if it is there in front of me, you can be sure I am not leaving the party/table/city until it is done!
Good idea with the single portion…although one that I doubt would ever work for me! I would simply start drinking everyone else’s! One thing I find helps me is to add sparkling mineral water to my wine (half/half mix) and that way I tend to get fuller and more bloated (ONLY time a bit of bloat is a good thing!) before I can finish too much of the actual wine.
That probably only works with white wine though…and takes some time to get used to (I would much rather the whole bottle unadulterated and all to myself!), but it may help.
With my food at a party or buffet, when I start to get full (or think I should be cos of the portions I have just eaten) I place my used napkin over the plate immediately. It stops me looking at the food…cos looking turns into picking, turns into the plate is clean! Once the dirty napkin is on the plate covering the food it is my mental signal (to myself but also wait staff) that I am DONE.
But I get the baby steps…just one at a time…they all add up eventually!
PS you have THE cutest dog and a really lovely home…I am super envious!! And making a note to clean up better before taking pics in MY apartment (and try to get my lazy cat to do something cute in the background!)
I al just like that too… it’s like I am a gold fish you feed me = i eat. I know, sad.
OOOOhhhh I love that puppy love in the back!!