The dreaded holiday dinner
By Joel Myhre
December 28, 2007
This watching-what-I-eat thing is far more difficult than I thought.
Take Thursday, for example. I took my dietician's advice and purchased a high-bran cereal, made some hard-boiled eggs, and ate both for breakfast. I brought crackers, cheese and fruit to work, and had a healthy snack at mid-morning and mid-afternoon. I even did a good mid-day workout.
While I did fast food for lunch, I had a side salad with fat-free dressing, and chili, which has beans in it, a very high-fiber food, which again was a prime recommendation.
Then came dinner. It was the worst kind of dinner, the holiday, have-people-over kind. It wasn't that the food was so bad: pita chips, hummus and veggies for appetizers, shrimp, steak, rice and salad for dinner. But I just ate too much, going to the chip bowl too many times, having seconds on dinner, having another alcoholic beverage, eating those Christmas cookies for dessert.
I knew I shouldn't have eaten so much, but it was just too difficult for me to stop. I assumed that everything good I had done during the day was blown that evening, and that I had certainly blown my daily calorie maximum.
It's frustrating, and disappointing. But at this point, about all I can do is try again today...
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