So as you already to know from earlier, I started the day out a little better today....down 1.5 lbs! Yea! Total 4.6. Re-motivated a little. A good thing because today was going to be challenging. A holiday with no real plans. A lot of time to think about food. I decided it would be best to sleep in, you know, have less hours to eat or think about eating. Tanner kind of messed that plan up by barging in my room and jumping on my bed and then directly on my chest. So, I reluctantly got up. I wasn't quite feeling eggs so I went to my new favorite treat, the Paleo smoothie. I laid around until lunch and decided on bacon and eggs. I finally decided I should go do something active so mom and I took Chester and Tanner to Chicopee to walk. You could cut the air with a knife it was so thick. We had to turn around when I noticed Chester and Tanner's tongues were hanging sideways out of their mouths.
When I got back I had another Paleo smoothie for snack :-) Then, we got ready to head over to Mom and Dad's for a Labor Day barbecue. Mom said she would have cavemen friendly food. Score. Dinner was good. I had some chicken, some Italian sausage, grilled okra, and grilled eggplant. I did pretty good. I wasn't craving dessert too bad. After dinner, Marcus went and got his phone and realized that he forgot that he planned to meet some people for dinner at Napoli's. He said that we needed to go. We already ate, but we would go hang out. Great. Napoli's. If you're not familiar, Napoli's is a fantastic pizza/Italian restaurant in Flowery Branch and Oakwood. Even though I had already eaten, I could imagine myself indulging in one of their pizza's or calzones. I could drink their marinara sauce. Yes, it's a great idea to go to Napoli's in my state. I told Marcus it was like taking a crack addict to a rave (or wherever people do crack...I'm not quite sure). So, we went. I guess this was God's way of testing my earlier sentiments about no one being able to force food down your throat.
When we got there I sat next to Betty. A few minutes later, her and Nate's pizza arrived. God strategically sat it directly in front of me. I even served Nate and Betty their first slice. Complete torture. Then, to top it off, Shaun's boys ordered cheese sticks. Those were in arms reach of me. They didn't finish them so 3 delicious little fried mozzarella pieces of heaven sat there staring at me the rest the night. I resisted. I splurged on a diet coke to get me through followed by several glasses of water. Then Betty ordered coconut sorbet for dessert. When she ordered it, I didn't even flinch because I really don't like coconut that much. When it arrived, it was all I could think about. The worst part was that I didn't even have any gum. I apologize now to Betty and Gretchen if there were times I totally blanked in conversation because the cheese stick voices were talking to me. Luckily, I escaped unscathed. We got home and I immediately went to the cabinet to get a Lara bar. Not at all like pizza or cheese sticks, but something good...sort of. What a nightmare. The good news is that I made it. I did it without caving in. It's not something I would like to put myself through on a regular basis, but now I know I can do it. I can be social even without food. A breakthrough of sorts perhaps. We'll take it as that at least. Now to bed before I have any more cravings.
Until tomorrow....
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