Self Control

Go home and take a long brisk walk. Stop by the gym and work out. That will help!

I have no self control either but I did something I would have been ashamed to do. I told everyone I am trying to change my life and eating better and working out. This way I have everyone supporting me and they won't invite me to go have pizza. But I still have one coworker who always ask if I want some of her candy and I just remind her everyday it won't be good for my diet.

But it helps if those inviting you out know you need their support.

for dinner do a salad with only vinegar on it.. Make sure your salad has spinach in it and lots of good veggies... make good choices for the rest of the day!

I think we all have trouble with self control or we wouldn't be on this website....lol. I find the best deterrent to falling off the wagon is to have your goals or the reason you want to lose basically shoved in your face. I have a picture of myself that I hate and picture of myself from before I met my husband (when I was much thinner) stuck on the fridge door so everytime I go to open it I'm reminded to ask myself if I really want what I'm going in there for. My friend has a list of her reasons stuck in her car and on her bathroom mirror so she's always reminded. You just need something to make you stop and think so you can make the right decisions.

To be more specific (my above link)

this is how (if I were in your situation) I would move towards solving your particular dilema. And probably in this order too.

1) Figure out why you have to say yes, and why you can't say no. I'm a big believer in the psychology of bad nutrition. By that I mean, I don't think people eat badly just to eat badly, I believe the reasons (and there are many, many reasons) people eat badly usually stem from other underlying issues that, once confronted can be at least partially mitigated, which can free up your mind to deal with the issues you have with food.

2) Find healthy foods you enjoy eating, and that fill you up, if you are excited about the lunch you have, you're less likely to really want to go out to eat. Don't rely on the fast food place having a healthy choice, more often than not, even their healthy choices aren't all that healthy.

3) Plan your food. I don't just mean write up your food schedule (that too), but make your food for the week ahead of time, spend some time, a few hours a week at least, making healthy meals and snacks to bring to work. You're much less likely to say yes to fast food if you spent 3 hours on Sunday dividing up and bagging a whole bunch of veggies, cooking up a healthy chilli, and stripping down a chicken into individual zip lock containers to put on your home made roast chicken salad. See what I mean?

4) Eat a snack right before your coworkers normally would ask you for lunch, if you're not hungry when they ask, you're less tempted to go do it.

As I said in my link, willpower is generated by force of conviction, but conviction is bolstered by a strong plan of attack, when you're confident you can succeed it makes the attempt much easier.

hope this helps.

-Banks