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I've been bad.

I had to take the youngin out tonight to do some shopping. I forgot to take one of the NS dinners. I went to El Pollo Loco, and bought the youngin smashed potatoes and gravy. We then went to Carl's Jr. where I ordered the bbq chicken salad. Yuck. I ordered it with balsamic vinegar. The chicken was good and I'm sure my body needed the protein. The use a ton of iceberg lettuce, which I don't like, big slabs of cucumber, which are hard to eat, shredded cheese, cherry tomatoes and shredded carrots and cabbage. Not tasty at all. I ate like 1/4 of the salad portion.

Earlier in the day, I purchased a Chocolate Zone Bar and used that in place of my snack for the day. I checked the nutrition box and it stacked up pretty much the same so I was happy to make the switch. The Zone Bar was far better than any of the NS food I've had. When I go off NS, I may stock up on Zone Bars for replacement meals.

I made an unfortunate purchase of a small bag of SloPokes, which are like Sugar Daddys. Only 50 calories each and I thought they'd be handy if I just had to have a sweet...well, one thing led to another and I just polished off about 400 calories worth of them, lol. Damn, they're so good and so little you don't realize you're being so bad...well I did realize it, but I had a hard time stopping. I did put one back in the bag and decided to blog instead of eat.

I'm a little disenchanted with NS. Other than a couple of the desserts and the granola bars, and the Chicken Noodle soup, nothing is really tasting all that good. I think taste is very important, and maybe more important when you're dieting. Having your tastebuds fulfilled satisfies an external hunger, if you know what I mean. People eat for other reasons than hunger and being deprived of good tastes, makes me want to search for other things to fulfill that desire. I think that's why I like doing the V8. It's got a lot of taste, and satisfies the taste buds.

Well, I blew it tonight, the only thing I can do right now is pick myself and get back on the NS horse. Blowing one day is not blowing a whole week of good effort, so I just have to move forward.

Oh, and I won't be buying anymore 'treats' for just 'one bite'.

I will say one of the most beneficial learning tools I've learned from NS is portion control. For example, the single serving soups (which are the same size as those little Gerber Baby Soups) fill less than half a soup bowl from my house. So, now I know that if I want I go to a restaurant, I should be ordering the 'cup of soup' size instead of 'bowl of soup'. The cup would be closer to the portion I should eat. The same with some of the dinner/lunch entrees. Most of them are about the size of my fist, so when I go to a restaurant or serve my food from home, I know to halve the portion I might otherwise serve.