New Party Strategies (well, new for me)

I went to my sister's birthday party last night. I'm happy to say, I was able to track everything and... well, okay, I'll admit it, I ended up using 36 of my 35 weekly points. BUT here are the reasons why it could have been much worse:

• I decided not to have ANY chips. If I'd decided to have "just a couple," I wouldn't have been able to stop. By making the decision not to have any, I didn't even have to think about it, or have an argument in my head (do you know the kind I mean?) about having "just one more."
• I also avoided all of the ice cream sundaes/toppings. I decided that ice cream really isn't my favourite and it wasn't worth it to me. (You may be wondering how I went overboard while avoiding all the chips AND ice cream. Yeah, it was basically because of the brie, not gonna lie. Oh, and the alcohol. And the appetizers...)
• I somehow realized that I was perhaps underestimating what I was eating, and I went to another room for a few minutes to track it. I've never actually tracked DURING a party before. I honestly thought I was maybe at about 16 weekly points... but I added it up, and I was at 36! The mini quiches that I remembered as being 2 points for 2 were actually 4 points for 2!! So the extras that I ate (and hadn't planned for) really did some damage!

I was being much more honest about what I was actually eating than I usually am. Since I had some of this food after midnight, I took one point away from Sunday's daily points, and checked off all of my weekly points in my tracker.

I really did NOT want to use up all of my weekly points on Saturday--the rest of the week will be tough without them. But I do plan on exercising a lot, and focusing on filling foods.

I'm calling last night a success.