Not so bad. :-)

Well I had fears that the party food was going to set me back further than it did.  This mornign I was still under the magic 200 and weighed in at 199.0 lbs.  That is respectable to me considering I had no control over what was served for dinner at the party.

I wish I could say that I exercised control over what I ate, but the truth is I was weak.  It was easy to pass on the baked beans and creamed corn and not using a role was an easy choice too.  I tried to stick to the proteins as best I could but did I really need to have the hot Italian sausage AND  the grilled chicken AND a taste of the pulled pork?  Of course not.  In retrospect the chicken was my best choice.  It had a dry spice rub in it and was delicious.  The real problem I encountered was that there wasn't a good vegetable to pair with my protein.  So quite frankly I was still hungry. The evening ended with a slice of berry pie.  I certainly didn't need that.

So what could I have done better?  In a perfect world knowing what the menu would have been I would have been better off eating a salad before we left the house so I would have been less hungry.  I then could have been satisfied with just the chicken and maybe could have overcome the compulsion to give the desert a try.

I have another party to go to next weekend, so I am going to try having my salad at the house before I leave and see if I can do better.