I was in another town and thought I would be okay with where I was going and be able to pick and choose good meals. I even ate at a buffet, made good choices and said no to dessert. My husband, though, did not say no and grabbed 2 cookies on the way out. So he ate one cookie and did not want the other one. He shoves it in front of my face and says here you want this? I said no. Then he said he had to go to the bathroom and had me hold his cookie. So here I am standing with a huge buffet cookie in my hand. I really did not want it. But that was strange. I wrapped it up in a napkin and saved it for my daughter. Why? Why could I not throw that cookie in the trash!!!!????

So the next morning I am faced with a continental breakfast.....a bad continental breakfast, not even a boiled egg. I had decided the night before to go down to a little food court that sold breakfast burritos so that was my plan and I went to the food court but they did not open until too late so I had to go back up and make a decision about which pastry/bagel, etc. to eat. I ate a bagel and cream cheese ....and then I grabbed a blueberry muffin. Then I made the whole thing into a big failure/drama. I was stressing about something that day and decided since I already blew it just to dive in. I ended up blowing it all day (including TacoBell which I have not eaten at in 10 years) and ending my day with a huge candy bar. Something my doctor said to me came to me about then. "Dont make everything in your life about food." Holidays, stresses, failures do not have to create a food drama." Seems whatever is going on I create a food drama over it, good or bad. So next morning, I went right back to breakfast and have been steady since then.

QUESTION: When faced with a junky continental breakfast, do you just wait to eat later? Is that the wiser choice....to not eat? Or do you go ahead and try and pick the "best" choice. Thinking back, I could have had a piece of toast. But there were so few choices. Not even any fruit. So would it have been better not to eat at all? Which I could have done easily. Next time I will plan better.