One of the things they tell us at Weight Watchers is that you should eat to live and not live to eat. They remind us that everything shouldn’t center on food. Once we spent a whole meeting talking about other ways to celebrate or get together with family besides food. You know, go bowling instead of having a cookout…that type of thing. Well let me tell you…everything in life revolves around food. They’re just trying to convince us that it doesn’t. Whether it’s having cake for your birthday, going out to dinner to celebrate a promotion, or making BBQ ribs because it’s finally nice outside. Trust me, if you have a food/weight problem (or maybe even if you don’t) it’s not too hard to find an excuse or reason to celebrate with food.
Proof of this? My mom is coming home from San Francisco tonight. Her plane gets in at 7:50. My dad and brother are going to pick her up. I’m going too. Am I going because I miss my mom, who has been gone for a week all the way across the country? Nope. I’m going because we’re stopping at Red Robin for dinner in North Olmstead on the way home. It’s all about the food baby! The added bonus? It’s Weight Watchers meeting night…that means dinner is a freebie and I won’t be counting points!
Oh boy do I know this! When we take trips home to visit family, I spend more time planning our meals and which restaurants we’ll go to than anything else.
Too funny, but oh so true! I don’t care where we’re going as long as there’s a good restaurant on the way! Maybe that’s why I’m a Weight Watcher member…