"You don't have to eat Vegetables? They have meat here!"

#34/71 Tackle buffets

I remember going to a Buffet with my roommate about 20 years ago. He had a buy 1 get 1 free coupon and we were both hungry and broke. Typical single guys. Back then, I wasn't slim, but was in much better shape then now plus all of us must have trained or worked out 7 days a week. While we were in line for food my roommate went to the salad bar and while he was there overheard a conversation with an obese mother and her son, as he was reaching for salad items she scolded him and said, "You don't have to eat Vegetables?! They have meat here!!!" he ran back to the table told me what happened and we both just laughed our ass off. We also made 2 observations. 1) The Salad bar looked untouched and 2) the majority of patrons there were overweight. I'd say the ratio was about 60/40 were overweight. 20 years later, the other day I went into a buffet and the ratio now, is more like 80/20 are obese.

Well Friday Weigh in? 203 lbs. Wow...progress. Slowly, but Surely!

Today's blog is all about buffets! I mean what a great Value? Eat all you want, Whatever you want?! Crazy, but true! 20 years ago I could easily put down about 4 to 5 plates of food and then go back for dessert! Now, I'm older can't eat as much but, can still put down 2 to 3 plates fully stacked. Only at a buffet can you eat a day or 2 worth of calories in one sitting. You may recall a couple of blogs back I reverted back into my old eating habits at a buffet. I'm not talking about food dripping down my face and chin(s), but it was still ugly. Well, Monday I decided to face my fears and went into a Chinese Buffet. What's even worse? I went alone. I think you can compare overeating with alcoholism. They say you should never drink alone and I would say that's true too of eating. I mean there is no peer pressure from friends to stop eating and Wang the server over there can shut the hell up...I paid my $5.99 and I'm going to get my money's worth!

So, who won the buffet war? Me or the buffet? I'd say Wang the server and the restaurant won! I had 2 plates and both of them were at best 2/3 full. Do you know what I discovered? The bottom of the plates are white! I took smaller portions of everything I wanted to eat and you know what?!!! I had vegetables too! My God, Fat Boy can be taught. It's a small victory, but you can ask any overweight individual and they'll tell you...one meal at a time!

Another exciting thing I learned this week from monitoring my eating habits is I get a lot of empty calories from snaking throughout the day but I realized I really am hungry. This week I made some changes. Instead of my normal low-cal protein shake paired with a cup of coffee in the morning for breakfast I've been eating Oatmeal and bringing 2 boiled eggs to snack on whenever I get hungry which gives me that filled feeling. I can tell you its working. A breakfast with real food has helped me. Just my 2 cents. I hope everyone else is doing just as good if not better! Remember One meal at a time!


Just Live,


Anthony