When in doubt, give it away!

I hate throwing food away. And after yesterday's double birthday party my house is absolutely loaded to the hilt with food. Today was a day filled with delicious leftovers (chicken parm, stuffed shells, Italian hero, salad, fruit...), YUMMY! But at some point it's more food than we can eat before it'll all go sour. I was thrilled when my husband said, "I'll bring some hero to work for the crew on Monday." So, with delight I cut and wrapped up the rest of the 3 foot hero into individual sandwiches and placed them into a cooler bag for him to bring to work tomorrow. I would really have felt sick to have had to throw it all out in a few days.

Next I bagged up chips. There are WAY TOO MANY potato chips, BBQ chips, Doritos (my big down fall), pretzels, Tostitos and cheese balls in my house left over from yesterday. I did have some Doritos today, but seriously I can not have them in my house right now. Trying hard to stay on track and eat healthy and having Doritos in the house with a food addict is like leaving an open beer on the counter with an alcoholic in the house. It is bound to be consumed. There is no will power. I don't even like it when someone suggests you just use will power and don't eat it. Well, duh. If I was able to do that I wouldn't be fat would I?

I'm rounding out the evening more satisfied with the knowledge that I'm giving away the leftover food for others to enjoy instead of throwing it out. Because as I said I really hate to throw food out. Hence another eating habit I'm trying to break, me eating the food to avoid the guilt of throwing it out, but then feeling more guilt because I ate it in the first place. So, when in doubt give it away and I feel relieved it's out of my house, it was not thrown away and others enjoyed it.

Five weeks is just a few baby steps into the lifestyle of healthy eating that I'm trying to create and establish. So many temptations and issues came up this weekend. Maneuvering my meals around parties, faced with super yummy leftovers, snack food in colossal quantities spilling out of my cabinet and no chance for exercise. It seems I'm finding myself looking forward to Monday (usually dread it), just so I can have my food routine back, my comfort zone of more fixed point friendly meals.

Sister1, where are you? Need your support. You had seemed very focused this weekend. Share some inspiration please.