I slept over at a friend's place this past weekend and she is my "eating friend." You know, we all have friends that we do different activities with like watching a movie, going to a bar, taking a walk in the park, etc. And then there are friends that you eat with. These friends are different from Restaurant friends who you go out to new and exciting eateries - eating friends are those with whom you consume obscene amounts of junk food while watching bad TV or Netflix movies.
Well, I had one of those sleep overs this past Friday.
I have had many a sleep over like the one on Friday - this one was different because I didn't beat myself over how much I was eating and how bad the stuff we were eating was. I enjoyed every moment and morsel of it. It was planned and is tradition. The key is not to have too many of these weekends of debauchery and to go right back on track of eating healthfully the minute the visit is over.
I find this train of thought very liberating and empowering. A huge part of weight gain for me is the constant negative self talk and putting unrealistic expectations upon myself-which then lead to failed expectations, which then leads to feeling sorry for myself and then totally throwing in the towel.
But if I do exactly what I set out to do - which in this case was eating junk food with abandon for a pre-determined amount of time - I don't let myself down. Make sense?
I like this new technique of mine as long as I don't do it too often.
The evening began with a visit to Key Food where we bought supplies to make Onion Dip and chips to accompany it. Only whole fat sour cream will do as per my friend - so whole fat sour cream it was. And sodium and chemical laden onion mix. Yummy. Then we stopped at a Fried Chicken place and bought Chicken with Mashed Potatoes and Gravy.
For dessert, ice cream bar with nuts.
The only thing that we didn't have that evening was a good or even a bad Netflix movie. The Netflix account was the first casualty of the economic downturn - which is fine-we all have to cut down where we can.
If anyone cares to know how to make this soooo bad for you nutritionally; and so anti -gourmet treat. Follow the pictorial.
After we had our fill of our semi home-made Onion Dip (that woman on the food network actually gets away with teaching people things like that) - we were ready for dinner.
We had our Fried Chicken with Mashed Potatoes and gravy.
As we ate our chicken which wasn't bad for being take away and having sat while we had our chips and dip- we watched some more bad television.
Time for desert. It was the Vanilla Ice cream with Nuts (i think peanuts).
Time for bed.
The next morning we decided to have breakfast at the neighborhood diner.
I ordered the Hungry 'Woman' Breakfast with copious amounts of coffee.
And that ended the weekend of debauchery.
It was fun and I vowed not to do it for at another 2 months.
What about you? Do you have friends that you eat with? What is your ideal debaucherous treat?
I am dying to know.
Until I eat again!
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