My Umteenth First Day

What do you do when your child is sick and, having believed her to be attention-seeking, you send her to school only to discover that she is indeed ill and so you go to the store to buy her ice cream and popsicles and stop at McDonnalds on the way home in order to get her to eat something - anything, and when you get home she discovers they messed up her hamburger (again!) so she won't touch it...   


 and you are standing there...

with a hamburger in hand...

after 7 p.m....

and you are hungry...

very hungry from eating carefully and sensibly all day...

very sensibly.

What do you do? 

 

Image source: Mcdonalds.com



You eat that hamburger.  Oh, yes.  You do.  (And by that, I mean eat that one and whatever your other child doesn't eat...)

As you inhale it you push back thoughts of maybe only eating one of the buns and what this might do to your calorie budget and in doing so almost don't even taste it.  But because you're committed, motivated, or just plain scared about how you will write about this, as soon as your head is cleared from devouring the last few uneaten fries, you gather your wits about you and dare to log what you've just eaten. 

Normally I would not have done that last part.  Normally I would then feel terrible and decide that I had failed for the day and I would have then turned to a rich treat like ice cream because it's there and, well, because I blew it, didn't I?


 Well, no.  Turns out I did not.  Turned out I even had calories left over if I made the right choice! 



Image ource: Yoplait.com



( ( ( I am now sounding an audible sigh of relief because my umteenth first day wasn't a failure...) ) )

What do you do when you're super hungry

and there isn't the best choice in front of you? 

How do you you minimize the "damage"?