Oooh, am I ever mad !!!

Sarah · 12-02-2007, 01:57 PM

Even when I'm "good" they sabbotage me! I mean, what is wrong with escargots in garlic-water (yes, no butter!) followed by a chickenbreast with pod-peas, carrots and a small potato - with just a thumb of pink pepper sauce, and one treat to finish, a creme brulee. ??? No wine, no coffee.

Then at friends' for a night-cap which for me was a cup of green tea, and max 10 of the nuts that were served with the "actual" drinks. I passed on the cheesecake, having already had my desert for the week.

Result?

UP 2,2 lbs from yesterday morning !!!

I'll repeat my question: what the &@## is in restaurant food ?!? How can an innocent-looking meal like that add 2 pounds of weight (water? can't be fat!) when the same meal, home made, would not have done that? What do the restaurants add?

I had 3-4 glasses of water with the meal, and the mug of green tea afterwards; yet I woke up feeling dehydrated. Does that make sense?

Unfortunately, we're being taken to a restaurant on December 20th, for a wedding-meal. "Great"

I feel like insisting on cooking myself and have them over to our house after the ceremony! At least I know I won't wake up 2-3 pounds heavier the next day

Restaurants? Honestly, to me, they'd better shape up! If people who are health, fitness and weight conscious can't even enjoy one meal a week without seeing that entire week's efforts obliterated, there's something wrong with the way they operate.

It could also full well be part of the reason why there are so many obese people these days. This restaurant last night was anything but a fast-food joint. The menu was as close to what I would have made at home as I could get it. Yet the result was far, far from home-cooked results.

Home cooking. That's the solution to the obesety problem. In part anyway, but a large part IMO.

Yes I'm pi$$d!! I had dropped 11 lbs since starting the Detox 3 weeks ago. Even if I know I'll get rid of those 2.2 lbs relatively fast and drop a little more as well this week, they are still slowing my progress, and that really ticks me off!

Other than the wedding dinner restaurant (unless I can get out of that) I suppose I'll be "treated" to a restaurant meal for my birthday early February. I already dread it !!!

ElissaLowe · 12-02-2007, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Sarah

Even when I'm "good" they sabbotage me! I mean, what is wrong with escargots in garlic-water (yes, no butter!) followed by a chickenbreast with pod-peas, carrots and a small potato - with just a thumb of pink pepper sauce, and one treat to finish, a creme brulee. ??? No wine, no coffee.

Then at friends' for a night-cap which for me was a cup of green tea, and max 10 of the nuts that were served with the "actual" drinks. I passed on the cheesecake, having already had my desert for the week.

Result?

UP 2,2 lbs from yesterday morning !!!

I'll repeat my question: what the &@## is in restaurant food ?!? How can an innocent-looking meal like that add 2 pounds of weight (water? can't be fat!) when the same meal, home made, would not have done that? What do the restaurants add?

I had 3-4 glasses of water with the meal, and the mug of green tea afterwards; yet I woke up feeling dehydrated. Does that make sense?

Unfortunately, we're being taken to a restaurant on December 20th, for a wedding-meal. "Great"

I feel like insisting on cooking myself and have them over to our house after the ceremony! At least I know I won't wake up 2-3 pounds heavier the next day

Restaurants? Honestly, to me, they'd better shape up! If people who are health, fitness and weight conscious can't even enjoy one meal a week without seeing that entire week's efforts obliterated, there's something wrong with the way they operate.

It could also full well be part of the reason why there are so many obese people these days. This restaurant last night was anything but a fast-food joint. The menu was as close to what I would have made at home as I could get it. Yet the result was far, far from home-cooked results.

Home cooking. That's the solution to the obesety problem. In part anyway, but a large part IMO.

Yes I'm pi$$d!! I had dropped 11 lbs since starting the Detox 3 weeks ago. Even if I know I'll get rid of those 2.2 lbs relatively fast and drop a little more as well this week, they are still slowing my progress, and that really ticks me off!

Other than the wedding dinner restaurant (unless I can get out of that) I suppose I'll be "treated" to a restaurant meal for my birthday early February. I already dread it !!!

Salt (water retention), + simple food bulk...

Scale weight really isn't relevant anyway. I don't know anyone who doesn't fluctuate +/- 2 - 3 pounds over the course of the week. I'm nearly always a pound or two heavier the day after a heavy leg workout, for example, whether cutting or not. Or eating in a restaurant or not. Ditto at "that time of the month." I don't pay the slightest bit of attention to daily fluctuations - it's longer term trends that matter.

No actual progress has been undone - if it takes that little to do it, then either much of the progress was illusory to begin with (i.e., glycogen/water loss), or else you need to check into a hospital - STAT - as there's something seriously physiologically awry.

I think we can eliminate the latter option...

IMHO, food is a means to an end. It's not about being "good" or "bad" - food is food, not a religion or other moral construct. You more-or-less ate according to your plan, and - regardless of what the scale says - you'll get to where you want to be in the end...which is what's important.

There will always be bumps in the road, and they should be anticipated as part of the journey. It's recovery from them that ultimately determines success/failure, vs. never experiencing them to begin with. There's nothing to be mad about at all, IMHO.

Look forward to the wedding and birthday dinners. Sounds like fun! I enjoy eating out - esp. when the company is good (along w/the wine - lol).

Sarah · 12-03-2007, 10:15 AM

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?