Eating Out

I have a mobile job where my office IS my company car all day long most days. When I get off work, it is usually to ferry one of my children to some school related activity. So I am on the road pretty much all the time unless I'm asleep. Eating out has always been a part of my life and will always be a part of my life. It is part of WHY I got fat. I will not allow it to KEEP me fat. I have eaten out since approximately 2 weeks post-op. I am VERY careful with what I choose to eat and the quantities I choose to consume. I always get done before everyone else now, so I try to bring a newspaper or puzzle book with me. I also play games on my cellphone. Or I just talk to my family, friends or co-workers. I never worry about all my left-overs. I ask for a doggie bag and my husband or my son (or sometimes even my daughter) have a whole meal in the fridge later on courtesy of my doggie bag.

Ruth I eat out a LOT. We live in a retirement community and it's a regular social event to go out to eat. I do NOT want to be left out so I go. I usually order an appetizer if there is one suitable for me and even with that I always end up taking it home. Sometimes it reheats well sometimes not. I sometimes just eat bites of my husbands meal. OR sometimes I will order a full meal and take the rest home for meals later in the week. Last week I had liver with gravy and that reheated very well with the gravy and I ate it all week long. I've ordered steamed shrimp, I've had chicken wings.. well I can only eat 2. I've ordered black beans and rice and just ate the beans, I've ordered broccolli cheese soup, bean burrito and ate only the stuffing and thew away the burrito, I even ordered a sirloin steak and did very well with that. Of course I ate very little and chewed each bite to death. Hubby ate the rest the next day. I love socializing and going out to eat is something everyone loves to do. I seem to be fine with everyone else eating what I used to love and live for but now, since I have no hunger at all.. either head or real hunger.. I am just enjoying having fun with everyone. It's such a wonderful feeling not to be ruled by food!!!!!! I WISH so much that this lack of hunger would last forever! What a freeing feeling it is never to be hungry and to finally be eating to live instead of living to eat. -Marianne C.