TL;DR: Being out of control of my food has me feeling like I might slip into old habits again. How do you stop it when you see it coming?
My bf and I started getting serious about our health on 1/1/19. We've been hitting it hard on the CICO. I've been sticking to 1300, and given that he's a much bigger dude, he's had an easy time sticking to his 2000 calories. As of this Tuesday, I'd lost 11 pounds and was feeling awesome. Then a friend who I hadn't seen in a while stopped by on Wednesday. I made dinner to control the calorie count, but I also had wine. Big mistake. I ended up drinking 5 glasses of wine and then ate pretty much half the tray of cornbread I'd made. Diet cornbread or not, it's still cornbread and I ended up taking in just over maintenance that night.
The next day, I'd gained back FIVE pounds. FIVE.
Tonight, we're going to dinner with my bf's family, who kindly invited us out and picked the restaurant. It's a family-style Italian restaurant and now I feel totally out of control. I'm either going to look like a jerk for eating a tiny amount or I'm going to go over calories again. I'm mostly fasting today to save my calories, but I feel totally on edge. Is this going to be my relationship with food from now on? Living in fear unless I can TOTALLY control every bit of my intake and never let myself drink?
I don't want to quit. I see how motivating it is to my bf, who's lost like 15 pounds and clearly feels a lot better. And I want to get to the place where I am comfortable with my body again, but I know these signs -- lots of slip-ups and excuses in a compressed timeframe spells trouble. How do you deal with this sort of situation and any words of advice for someone who knows she's looking over the edge of the wagon?
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