Day 3

I ate. Had to eat dinner with housemates--we all did a sit-down type dinner, which I absolutely HATE like nothing else. Anyway, that wasn't too bad; I had some sugar-free oatmeal (100 cals per packet) with Truvia and cinnamon.

Then some people came over and we had a few drinks and played a few games. I had 1-2 shots of whiskey mixed with my diet grapefruit soda (yum) and then switched to water. So I'm estimating maybe another 100 cals.

Then I weighed myself. Bad move. I was the number on the scale was water weight from all the drinking games...but it was so disappointing. My resolve cracked.

So I had a mini-binge. It was actually really odd for me. I deliberated a long time over it, almost talked myself out of it. But not quite. Luckily, I managed to STOP before it got heinous (another really odd moment). So today's total:

oatmeal-100
alcohol-100
1 mini pretzel-6
2 Special K bars-180
4 dill pickle slices-25
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total: 411

Now I know that you are probably sitting there and going, "411? That's not a binge!" And believe me, I know that. Usually when I talk binge, I'm talking eat-everything-in-the-house, don't-even-bother-counting-calories, gorging. I'm counting this time as a binge because a) I'd planned on eating nothing, b) I definitely went into my "binge mode" mentality, and c) if I were home alone, I'd probably be stuffing myself right now. Thank god my housemates are here.

I'm trying to look on the bright side of things. 411 is not a bad number at all; it could be much worse. I definitely am not dehydrated at all tonight. And maybe it'll boost my metabolism a bit.

I think tomorrow I will bike to work. Make up for today.