Oh LORD. When piles of food are available, it seems that I don’t have that much discipline to keep myself in check. This trip has been pretty rough. Because of the group mentality, I can’t really refuse food if everyone else is eating and enjoying. First of all, I don’t want to seem ungrateful. Secondly, I don’t want to seem like I’m above everyone. I could cut down, and in fact I’ve tried that. When I did, when I finished people were still eating and going for seconds. Wow. Afterwards, it seemed like every other person that came into office brought some other food source. Donuts greeted us at the beginning this morning. Later someone brought cupcakes. Someone else brought cookies. The other day smoothies were brought in for everyone. How can you say no?
You know, honestly, going into this business trip I knew that I would have to let my guard down a little bit. There’s just so much that’s out of my control at the moment that trying to force the reality around me to fit within my own parameters would be an exercise in futility. It’s pretty bad. I’ve been obsessing over this and feeling like I’m setting myself up for failure. Well…the circumstances are such that the outcome can’t be great anyway. So, I’ve had to change my attitude pretty quickly. In terms of eating, I have to treat this like a vacation and be conscious, but a bit relaxed. My only comfort at the moment is that this trip isn’t lasting for more than a few days. Soon enough I’ll be back in my own environment and from that point I can do my best to stay on track. A few days of poor choices isn’t going to erase the hard work I’ve put in over the past 8 months. Damn right!
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