My pizza night vow

{part of last week's disaster}

Do you ever have to make deals with yourself just to get through the day?  This is one of those days!  Who am I kidding?  It has been one of those weeks.  Tonight is pizza night for us like every other Friday night for the past 16 years.  I feel the need to make a pinky promise to myself.  Unlike last week's adventure with pizza (and calories), tonight....

1. I will eat only 2 slices since that's all I have room for calorically speaking.
2. I will not sneak back into the kitchen when nobody is looking to secretly eat another slice.
3. and I will certainly not sneak back again for a fourth slice!
4. I will drink plenty of water to wash the pizza down (instead of Coke).
5. I will measure my salad dressing.
6. I will eat every bite of salad.
7. I will make extra salad & sliced raw veggies just in case I'm still a bit munchy.
8. I will make a fruit & yogurt parfait or a latte for dessert if I'm wanting to snack later in the evening.
9. I will wait 20 minutes after eating before deciding if I'm hungry or satisfied.
10. I will be accountable for my actions.

Now would be a good time to pull out some homemade garden veggie soup out of the freezer, but I ate it all & neglected to make more. lol  Oh well.  Remember that recipe from your week 1 Weight Watchers booklet?  It's a keeper, and you can add as many herbs as you like to spruce up the flavor without adding many calories.  Freezing the soup in 1 or 2 cup portions is perfect for a quick addition to meals.  It makes a great appetizer on pizza night.  Making a big pot will be one of the chores for this weekends to do list.

***UPDATE: Mission accomplished.  I ordered my typical thin crust, but instead of veggies toppings or plain cheese, I added hamburger & bacon (yummmmm!).  I know!  ME.  The veggie lovin' queen.  It was SUCH an awesome change.  The only veggie on that dang pizza was the sauce.  I honestly feel it was WAY more satisfying than the same old, same old I always order for myself.  Had my two big slices of delish take out pizza with a big salad, and washed it all down with homemade ice water with a few berries tossed in for flavor.  :)

Once again, I got a few interesting comments that I chose to delete.  Here's the deal, folks.  Learn to live in the REAL world with REAL food.  As someone who managed to lose 80 pounds & then kept it off for 8 years, that's the best advice I can give you.  I've watched a lot of people do a LOT of strange things with food in order to lose weight.  I never watched any of them keep the weight off going to such extremes.  For me, real food means ordering take out most Friday evenings, going to lunch with my friends now & then, dinner dates, boxed mac & cheese from time to time, adding veggies to recipes that should not contain veggies, full fat salad dressings, salads every day, a beer one a month or so, loads of fresh veggies, equal amounts of frozen veggies, bakery made whole grain bread, skinny vanilla lattes 4+ times a week, having a high calorie days because they keep me tickin' along, etc.  Everyone has their own way.  I get that.  However, if anyone tells me they never ever ever go over portions, calories, Points, etc...I know they're a big, fat liar (or only on day 2 of their journey).  Nobody is perfect.  Perfection is not what this journey is about. 

I'm not stating this for the few people who felt the need to leave me nasty messages regarding my choices last week.  (Those people are dead to me now.  "No soup for you!")  I'm writing this to everyone else.  Those of us who sometimes feel less than simply because of a single choice we made.  Have a plan in your back pocket, and make damn sure you follow through with it so the behavior does not continue like a tape recorded loop suspended in time.  You can change what's going on, but you have to be willing to make the change happen.  Even after 8 years of being at your goal weight.  Moving on.***