Rude? or not.

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  • mjtbb
    mjtbb Posts: 77 Member
    THis phrase was just a manner of speaking. I have dieted before and if I don't drink a lot of water I don't lose weight. It may not have a scientific base but thats the way my body works. I assume because I do eat with a lot of sodium and need the water to "flush it out". I know the water doesn't flush the calories. I also know I have to lower my sodium but thats an extra battle for me and I'm working on it.

    Melanie
  • mjtbb
    mjtbb Posts: 77 Member
    I did bring my water. I just didn't want to drink as I normally do because there was not a lot of stop points for bathroom breaks.

    I was actually very surprised. The lunch was a salad bar (lettuce, tomato, etc) and ice cream bar. They had a lot of different dressings (including lite ones) so I didn't have to bring out the sandwich. I was glad because it was a very small crowd and it would have been very noticeable. I did "cheat" a little because my daughter got apple pie and gave it to me when she didn't want it. It was a waste of calories but since I only ate a very small piece I'll just excersize enough to make up for it. Shame it was not as good as it looked, it was too sweet. My issues are more with salty stuff, thats the one I can't start because it's hard to stop eating it.
    I'll still keep the idea of a sandwich for the next occasion though, I simply lucked out on this one.
    Thanks!

    Melanie
  • bonjour24
    bonjour24 Posts: 1,119 Member
    take your butty.
    not the scales.......... weighing everything will just make you stand out more from the crowd.
  • webbed1
    webbed1 Posts: 86
    NOT.

    Stick to your plan. Do have some flexibility in your plan so you can cover occasional events like this or other. Calorie counting can average across days, as long you are brutally honest and not self delusional. Do become pretty good at estimating, but I will admit this is hopeless with combination dishes. You should hear the stuff I get-- but then again I am not at all concerned about telling someone something that WILL be rude if they persist in bothering me about my food choices. I used to think I coul explain educationally but realized many people insist on debating or debunking. The silliest ones are overweight and quite sternly like to lecture me on the fallacies of counting calories. HAHA.
  • kittybitz79
    kittybitz79 Posts: 213
    I hope this comes through. There was a really good clip on The Talk about portion size and how to figure it out by sight.

    http://www.cbs.com/daytime/the_talk/video/?pid=bB42IbTgsoEUTVh5oQBqv1G7r33bkY9F&vs=Clips&play=true
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