We had friends over for dinner last night. The four of us went through several bottles of wine (I think 3-4). When I went to add those calories into my food diary, you guessed it. I went way over. It is hard to undo something like this. They left about 10:00 and I was not going to go for a walk to burn up those additional calories. AND, I really didn't think that it would put me over my calorie intake. I had said, "no, thanks" to the chocolate cake. And I filled my plate with more green items than some of the other fun stuff. I had a second helping of my spinach salad (not because I was hungry, but because it tasted so good).

Taste is my biggest problem when it comes to food. I'm not an emotional eater. It is rare when I'm bored and even rarier when I eat because I'm bored. But my #1 reason for eating is taste. Not because I'm hungry, not because it's time, not when I'm angry, frustrated or sad, and not because I'm bored. It is taste. If it taste good, I'll eat it.

So, now that I've had this break through, what I'm I going to do about it? Only make the food I like that is good for me and low in calories? That seems like a solution, but not a reasonable one.

The spinach salad I make is a good one. Feta cheese (sometime I use the lowfat feta cheese), mushrooms, sliced red onions, and some bacon (usually I make the turkey bacon). And I make my own salad dressing with a small amount of olive oil, red wine vinegar, garlic, pepper and some sugar. Overall, this is something that I could eat a lot of and it would fill me up more than fill me out.

But if I make the foods I like that are good for me, am I still enabling my worst eating habit. Eating because it taste good?

Of course, if I ate foods that I didn't like, I would lose weight because I would only eat them when I was hungry. And I wouldn't have seconds. Just enough to stop the hunger pains.

I'm going to have to think about this one. . . . and I'm glad that I do not often have a drink. Those calories are just empty calories. And if I drink too much, it just leads to eating more food that I like to taste.