Eating out nightmare

[bitofagit]

Barba Rossa I can relate.
One of the mechanisms I have employed is after having eaten (perhaps something 'forbidden') I give more time now for it to hit bottom before starting second course, for example. The more I expand that time gap the easier I find it to be more relaxed about the whole food thing, and that now includes being able to have my 'pizza moment' and revert to course immediately after.
You just know I am going to fall down now don't you.

 

[CatsFive]

That’s certainly another option and if you’ve got the control to get straight back to it the next day I applaud you.

As someone who is on their second attempt to reverse Type 2 having slipped back into terrible eating habits I’m nervous about whether one meal would really stay as one meal. I know that in lockdown when I started to slip it was always one takeaway or one treat and over time it just became every day.

There will come a day when I need to test myself (likely at the end of July when I’m going to a wedding with a pretty tricky menu) but for now I’m avoiding it, mainly because it’s easier to ignore my own diet demons than to properly confront them.

The control comes when out shopping. As there are few carbohydrates in my house, and the only takeaway in the village is a not-great Chinese, not eating many of them isn't too hard. Also I'm old enough that take-outs aren't a habit I grew up with.

I would eat whatever at the wedding and get back on the wagon the next day.