What to do when you're in a social setting**
This is the main problem I face in maintaining a healthy eating program: the Blameable Backslide.
Blameable Backslide - n., (orig., Polish Amer., particularly those unwilling to accept responsibility for their actions) An event that undoes a series of positive steps and can be attributed to someone else.
"Glenn got his weight under a thousand before his attendance at the all-kielbasa party and he suffered an inevitable blameable backslide."
These take many forms:
- The dinner party with people your wife desperately wants to be friends with (because, well, she's not going to hang out with YOUR friends anymore...that's clear, isn't it?)
- The restaurant night out, because your wife had a rough day with the kids (particularly YOUR son)
- The {choose one} (reward/punishment/consolation) (lunch/dinner/brunch) because your (favorite/second favorite/most ignored) child (deserves it/needs it/is only tolerable with their mouth crammed with junk food).
In my case, the BB can be a multi-day derailment. If I have had a bad lunch, a bad dinner is sure to follow, with some vague promises of "domani...domani..."
If I've had a bad breakfast...uh oh.So there are several steps a weak-minded blamer like me can take:
- Plan in advance.
- Make a conscious decision to plan your eating/drinking out. It is far easier to be reasonably healthy without Mrs. Fattengotten's fried sausagonnaise staring you in the face.
- Go Public.
- You'd be amazed how much people want to help. Or, in the case of some of my friends, feel better about themselves at my expense. Hey, whatever works.
- Write It Down.
- Humiliation is the most underrated motivator in human history. And once this becomes a habit, you will have an ever-present "do I really want to publish that I drank half-a-gallon of Cote du Liver wine on myfitnesspal.com?!?"
**-for those of you with social activities.
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