I know there are bumps in the road as you say, and I have no problem with that as long as I feel it's "my own fault". What irks me, is that had I made that same meal at home, the results would not have been the same.
Salt ... possibly. I use virtually no salt when I cook at home, so that is the only rational explanation I could come up with yesterday. As for bulk of food, not. A few edible-pod-peas, a spoonful of carrots and a chicken breast (half, the rest I took home), after 6 little snails? No bulk there. One desert on top of that, no bulk there either.
The rant in itself isn't so much that leap up; it's more about the fact that it's so hard to go out and actually enjoy the meal, knowing what the results will be.
No problem when you are at your goal weight. One leap over the weekend is quickly resorbed and forgotten.
However, when you are on a downward curve weight/fat wise and feel great about that, one leap like this can be enough to throw many people off balance and subsequently throw in the towel.
And I can't help thinking of all those who have to eat at restaurants every day in connection with business. How many of those "temporary leaps" end up being permanent because they don't have time to eliminate the meals properly?
Once a week is bad enough, but you have time to eliminate the excess water. Once a day ... when do you eliminate?
And yes, water isn't fat, so "no problem" however, water does bloat and make clothes tighter and more uncomfortable, so "problem".
Future strategy until I am at my goal weight, is to eat before I go out, and just have a salad at the restaurant (how much damage can they do to
that?
