Yesterday I hit a milestone and gave myself a treat. It seems silly, in many ways, that I “treat” myself with foods but, since I’m not into total denial, I think delayed gratification is probably a good compromise.
I bought Doritos – the special edition jalapeno popper flavor. I’ve been wanting them for months but I know I suck at eating just a few and putting the rest away. So, after I finally hit my milestone, I bought some. And damn they were tasty. I didn’t really expect them to taste like poppers but they did.
Interestingly, I didn’t go completely mad with them. Yes, I’ve been eating taco salad with the remainder for the past two days now but, although that’s more calories than I normally consume, I didn’t really “overeat” in the sense of a binge. It wasn’t hard to stop when I was full. That’s new and I like it. It seems to bode well for a future when I’m trying to maintain my weight instead of losing.
Also interesting was meeting this milestone. Last week, I was up a couple of pounds on my weigh day. I wasn’t really worried even though that always disappoints me. I know there is some natural variation. During the week, I was about 50/50 for keeping to plan versus going over plan. Yet, I dropped an additional 5 pounds. I won’t be terribly surprised if I’m up a pound or two next week then down again the next. Sticking to plan is good, but it seems that my level of off plan may still be well within my weight loss level. That’s good too. Mostly. There’s a part of me that thinks that is a license to eat more and staying closer to plan is probably best for me.
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Zaz do you remember the days when there were no novelty chips – only the two waxed paper bags of potatochips in the big cardboard box? Mercy me.
Now I suppose we could have a lengthy discussion on “indulgence” versus “overindulgence”.
Does indulgence mean just a little bit of something decadent? If so, then overindulgence would be way too much, or, just a little bit more than a little bit? Can we indulge on something that we really don’t like to begin with? (I guess that would be mindless stuffing……….) Well, now I’ve talked myself into a corner.
Any recent pics of P or S?
I remember rippled versus plain. I don’t remember boxes, though! Indulgence v. overindulgence is a really good point. I don’t have much of a history of keeping to simple occasional indulgence – unless I do it carefully like having a dessert at a restaurant. I’d like to believe that someday I’ll have the self control to have the occasional treat without all the drama.
And no, no new pics of the kitties. I keep meaning to – I never have my camera in hand when Stasia is doing something cute!