When you come home tired and feeling a little sorry for yourself, only to discover that large pizzas (and not nice homemade ones) are supper here are a few things I should have done instead of what I did.
- Go straight to the fruit dish and eat an apple and have a bit of water before hitting the pizza. Then probably wait at least 5 or 10 minutes before pizza.
- Prepare a plate with a few veggies on it and only then put a slice of pizza on the plate.
- Most definitely leave the pizza box in the kitchen, your lap in front of the tv is NOT the new home for mr. pizza box.
- Have a nice glass of cold water handy while you dine on pizza and veggies.
- If the pizza is truly good - not just that terrible, fast food, over salted, over processed, artificial additive filled substitute for actual good flavour - and you are still hungry go ahead and have seconds. And definitely best to stop there. With seconds probably make sure to prepare a side of fruit for dessert to make the meal feel finished.
- Most definitely drink a nice big glass of water an hour or so after eating, that pizza was probably really salty and you don't want thirst urges to start masquerading as other urges (i.e the desire to eat a whole large dark chocolate bar).
Thus, lessons are learned and documented here so that I might retain these ideas and not let myself fall into old traps/patterns etc.
