Today I am going to a fancy tea put on by my church. I have helped with the preparation and I know our event today will include: Moroccan chicken salad, spinach and artichoke tarts, celery flagship boats, lemon bars, a muffin, fudge, and the list goes on. Everything I saw being prepared was high in calories and decadent! I have been watching my diet because I want to lose the 5 pounds I put on over winter. What should I do? Should I watch what I eat or should I simply enjoy the day and eat what is placed before me? This is a question that I am always asked by clients who want to know the secret of not eating while attending special events like weddings.
I believe that life is about balance. Diets do not work because we must deny ourselves and life is full of fun events that include food. To be successful we must learn to eat properly most of the time. This goes against our all or nothing thinking which says that if I am trying to diet, then I must never make a mistake or it is the end of the world and I may as well eat everything in sight because I have blown it already. That is the thinking that we must delete.
You have permission to go to special events and enjoy the food without guilt. The key is to continue to eat well the rest of the time. I am eating a healthy breakfast and I will eat a healthy dinner. I will eat all of the tea selections and chat away with my lady friends about how wonderful everything is. I may even go for a walk afterward. But I will feel no guilt, only the joy of this special day.
Ladies, we must learn how to include special eating events into their lives to be successful with weight control because it does not feel good to deny ourselves always. So go to your spring and summer weddings and special events and quit looking for ways to not eat the cake! Enjoy those special events without guilt and continue eating healthy most of the time.
I am off to my "Passport Around the World Tea"!!!
Kerry
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