It’s really hard for me to avoid eating unhealthy food in social situations—especially if the other person has the same addiction to sugar and carbs that I have. After doing a decent job of minding my eating for most of the day yesterday, I met up with my oft-mentioned friend in the evening…and things quickly fell apart. I owed her pizza from a couple of weeks ago, and she was disappointed when I said I had to be good and eat something healthy like grass and leaves. I know what it’s like to be looking forward to pizza or some other indulgence and not indulge after all, so I gave in, and we got some pizza.

My friend needed to go grocery shopping as well, and that’s always a bit of a chore because she isn’t good about sticking to her list, so we end up spending an hour (sometimes more) at HEB. Somehow, despite both of us trying to lose weight, we typically leave with ice cream (at least a pint) and some sort of candy. Anyway, when we finally got back to her place, we not only had the pizza but also two pints of ice cream and some sort of “natural” gummy bears (which happened to be delicious). So, we both ate things we shouldn’t have eaten, and this morning I weighed over two pounds more than I did yesterday (a day on which I weighed a pound  more than I did the day before).

It seems like I just keep perpetuating this pattern of falling off the diet wagon on the weekends. And things tend to go awry in the latter part of the workweek as well. I’m almost at the point where I feel like I need to write down exactly what I’m going to eat the next day (assuming I’m going to eat) and not stray from it at all. This up-and-down cycle that I’ve been stuck in for the last month or so is something I really need to get out of. If I make a plan of what I’m going to eat the next day, and then inventory what I actually eat on that day, maybe I can illuminate this unhealthy pattern a bit more and change it. I hate the idea of doing something that tedious, but it might just be necessary to get some sort of progress going again.

I’m getting a late start on the day, so I’ll have to get going so I can make the best of what’s left of the weekend. Work looms yet again. Sigh…