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When You Are Forced to Eat Carbs on a Low Carb Diet

3/8/2012

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    My work had a company meeting two days ago. It's usually a quarterly thing that occurs every so often to keep us updated on the progress of things. Its one of those meetings where we all sit together and an executive gets up in front of everyone, makes some mediocre jokes that everyone laughs at, then shows us some charts on the company's progress, and give a nice little speech about working hard and staying focused. It's all that usual white collar stuff. Really kind of boring but we do it because we have to. The plus side on those days at my work is that they provide lunch. Usually it's a local food place that caters with a food truck. Two days ago they brought in a local burger place called The Habit.

    Let me first say that the Habit makes a pretty good burger. They have a variety of things on their menu that we could get off the truck too. A burger is the staple but they also have a Tri-tip burger, Tuna burger, and BBQ Chicken sandwich. They also provided fries, onion rings, and sweet potato fries to those that want them. The food seemed fresh, full of flavor, and not really that greasy which I think is a good accomplishment when being made on a truck.

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    The problem for me was that I felt a little trapped in what I had available for me to eat for lunch. I know that I could eat whatever I want, and don't have to eat carbs, nobody was forcing me. But sometimes you feel trapped based on your options available. That's how I felt during the lunch meeting. So I ate my burger with the bun, and I ate sweet potato fries. I didn't have to, but I did. Maybe it was just the fact that the truck was there and I was in a weak moment. Anyway the point is this, you will eat bad on occasion and sometimes it may be slightly out of your control because of your options. When you do, you may want feel guilty afterwards. That's OK sometimes, it keeps you in check. However, sometimes you don't have to feel guilty. Look at the moment as fate telling you to enjoy your food. It's an opportunity to practice moderation. Don't eat the whole burger, or all the fries. Find a way to make up the difference later. Maybe you have carbs for lunch but something very low carb for dinner. Balance is the key. 

    I wish I could say I had this all down but I am still learning this myself. The more I talk about it the easier it hopefully will become for me. How do you handle these situations of feeling trapped by options?

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Jessica link
3/13/2012 06:24:04 am

I hate the feeling of being trapped in a situation and I try to avoid it, but we can't always. I'm actually using one of those "trapped" moments for some motivation. I have my sister's bridal shower coming up in April and I am allowing myself to have what I want to eat at the shower as a reward for sticking to my diet up until that point. Also, just the other day everyone in the car wanted fast food and we ended up going to a fast food place with no salads. So I settled with a large popcorn chicken. The breading was the worst part, at least it was chicken and I had ranch with it and that was all that I had. I think you make a great point about balancing, we can't suffer forever without the things we love or else we go back to them completely.

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Poor Mans Atkins
3/13/2012 07:14:34 am

Thanks Jessica,
Its hard when you feel like your diet routine get sidetracked by the events around us. The important thing is to not get discouraged when it happens. Just have to remember that we can make up for it later.

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Becky
9/21/2012 02:56:35 am

I incorporate a cheat day (more like a cheat meal) every now and then for those times when I have no other options or when I am having a very weak moment! It does keep me on track and I have something to look forward to. I try not to do a cheat day(meal) more than once a month though!

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