A losing Saturday night for the Cooley team turned out to be a weekend win for me. Friday night, Chris asked if we could go to the casino on Saturday for a session of video poker and a steak dinner. Lucky for me, that's what I had already planned for Saturday's dinner. Bonus was getting a dinner reservation for 7 pm. so that I wasn't eating too late.
However, as it turns out, by the time dinner rolled around I was starving. There is nothing more challenging to a food plan than sitting in a fine restaurant with a menu in your hands and bread on the table. I came *this* close to chucking everything I had planned, including no dessert (visions of carrot cake danced in my head. I gotta make that sugar- and grain-free recipe!) But as I thought about the consequences and asked myself what do I really want, the food or the win, I chose the win. I ordered the shrimp cocktail, filet, sweet potato and mushrooms I had planned. With my first cup of coffee in hand and the gorgeous shrimp cocktail in front of me, I felt so much better. By the time dinner was done, I was full and satisfied. And I didn't have to carry all that guilt around with me.
Unfortunately, the gambling part was such a win but that's another very familiar story.
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