"What?" I respond nervously.
"Would you mind if we go to Emerald for dinner?"
"Uhh." Long pause.
"Well?"
"Why are you asking me?"
"Well you'd have to come with us."
"Fine. I don't mind." Shit Fuck Me Fuck. I couldn't say NO I WON'T because I don't like oily fatty Chinese food.
Then my sister who is "trying" to be healthy, says "I kinda just want to stay home and be healthy with Alisha, my sister."
Yes, thank you GOD for my sister.
Now my dad is all like, "No come with us, Alisha, you have never come out with us in forever!"
Not sure what's going to happen yet, but I'm freaking hell out of my brain. I'm 4 lb down from Wednesday. I'm aiming to be 100 for Christmas, at this rate. No room for oily fatty Chinese food.
my friends love chinese food, get whatever is all veggies, I know there's one that ends in 'mein'... have you tried looking up their menu online to see what the best thing to get would be?
ReplyDeleteNo! Chop Suey! xD sorry lol no noodles or anything, just veggies and some thickend broth sauce stuff
ReplyDeleteAgreed, chop suey is just steamed and slightly brothy cabbage stuff. It's not bad! And probably one of the lowest cal things that the American take on Chinese food has to offer. Good luck!
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Victoria
Good luck!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I love chinese food..
You are doing so well! If things go wrong, don't worry, everything can be fixed somehow. You will be 100 by christmas, that is SO exciting and motivating.
ReplyDeleteStay strong.
I know you're probably getting this comment too late, but maybe it'll help next time (and you won't freak out as badly!) :]
ReplyDeleteChinese food is NOT as bad as it could be. In fact, it's probably the best dinner outing food option, especially when you consider the massive quantities of cheese and butter and lard cooked into other types of food.
Here's what I do (and I am a PRO because my parents never take me to non-Chinese restaurants, and I go back to China where there is NOTHING else to eat):
step 1: never eat anything fried. tell them that you had a bad experience once with oil/fried stuff at a chinese place and it made you poo oil for a week (true story) or something equally unappealing
step 2: just don't eat the rice. i mean, it's pretty good for carbohydrates, but... it's still carbs. if you have to eat it, eat the WHITE rice. fried rice is gross.
step 3: put a bunch of white rice on your plate no matter what. then use it to WIPE/soak up the grease from your other food. I'm serious! it gets off a lot of the excess fat, leaving just the vegetable or the meat, which is OKAY. take a deep breath and tell yourself that it is OKAY. your body needs the vegetables to digest stuff, your body needs the protein to build muscles, etc. etc. Might as well get it when you have to. Just wipe off that grease and SMILE :]
Hope that makes you feel a little better!
P.S.
'mein' = noodles
'chow' = stir fried? versus like a noodle soup
'bak choy' = lettuce. totally healthy and low cal
and you can always just ask for some stir fried mixed vegetables. My mom eats it every day and I swear she has had 2 kids but weighs 90 lb.
I hope it worked out okay...I hate it when people spring going out to eat on me.
ReplyDeletei'm so sorry about that parent situation..i cannot TELL you how many times this has happened to me. hang in there.
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I hope you can stay home and avoid that. Good luck to you, little miss!
ReplyDeleteI hope you can get out of it!
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I hope that the visit went alright and you were able to come out of it okay!
ReplyDeleteJust eat teeny tiny bites of everything :) Hope it all went well xx
ReplyDeleteIn response to your comment on my blog: I think you'd like the DVD I was talking about. You will definitely "work up a sweat" by the end of all the segments. But I like doing that particular DVD-the fat-free one- when I'm trying to get started and rev up my metabolism. It was a lot of glandular tune-ups and exercises to kick-start your metabolism.
ReplyDeleteFor a more challenging set of exercises, I HIGHLY suggest "Yoga Beauty Body with Ana Brett and Ravi Singh." They are the same people who do the fat-free one, but this one is about forming your body into one that is beautiful using kundalini yoga. I love it, because I lot of yoga DVDs are just sitting or standing poses with no actual exercises worked in. I think yoga is about being in shape both mentally AND physically, so this DVD is tha bombbb.
haha sorry for the long description. It's just an awesome DVD. :P