Thank you to my wonderful support group who successfully talked me off the ledge. I am still on track and now very committed to getting results. Last night I ate a small Cobb salad with MINIMAL blue cheese. I had a fudgesicle for dessert. Today I had my requisite latte for breakfast and black bean soup for lunch. I am feeling pretty good about my consumption thus far but don't worry, disaster awaits. Here is my current dilemma. There is an MBA alumni event that I really want to attend but its an all you can eat-all you can drink sort of thing... The only thing worse than setting me free at an open bar is setting me free at an open bar with copious amounts of free food. Let's face it. If I attend, I am completely screwed. I will fall so far off the wagon that you will need to use a crane to lift me out of the hole I will create when gravity conspires with my increasingly supple ass as I hit the ground. I'm just sayin.'So that is the current decision of the day. If I don't go to the alumni event, I can go home and watch the debates and drink by myself. Uh.... did that sound horribly depressing to anyone else? Anyway, I need to decide and fast; I still have some errands to run before funtivities begin so please reply with suggestions or general chastisement for the predicament in which I currently find myself. Mwah :)
3 comments:
Okay. You are at a crucial moment.
If I were you, I would skip the MBA event, go home, get a bottle of white wine, and drink alone. I really think that is a better option. I mean, assuming you have already decided that drinking is a foregone conclusion.
My reasoning is thus:
-You were teetering on the edge of giving up yesterday, which means that you are still vulnerable to falling off the wagon.
-There is nothing worse than falling off the wagon at a social event that you could have chosen not to attend.
-Copious amounts of booze (as opposed to say 1 bottle of wine) leaves you further vulnerable for screwups tomorrow in the form of hangover relieveing no-no foods.
-These MBA events are frequent occurences...it's not like you're skipping a holiday party for christ's sake! You will be better off being a little anti-social for these next few days, until you see some more results on the scale, by which time you will be more committed to not vacuuming up an open bar and food extravaganza.
My two cents.
YEAH!!!!
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I am a selfish jerk who desperately wants to go to P.R./other tropical vacation for girls trip, and also needs the positive influence of us all being on the wagon.
YEAH!!!!
Selfish Jerk is happy!!!!
The debates are going to be pretty interesting, and this isn't the last fun and/or networking event in your life - there are about a zillion others in the future. Forgo now, and you will enjoy those to come even more than you would have in the present. You will be able to wear even cuter outfits to those events. Skip it. Cozy up with a glass of wine and watch Sarah Palin's adventures. You will laugh, you will cry. You will be way happier at the end of the night than if you go out, because the all-you-can-eat-and-drink combo can only be resisted by people who don't like anything. I don't understand them. Who are they? Are they aliens?
ACCCKKK! okay, I am just in one of those slightly crumby moods even though I have no reason to be today (erm, maybe I forgot my happy pills actually), but this delights me. YEAH! BACK ON TRACK!
I am so excited and so proud of you for pulling through this! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Girl, this is how you are going to make it happen, this unflappable will to continue even when the shitstorm is roaring.
You so deserve your vino tonight.
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