Slipping on Sipping

January 19, 2010 @ 12:30 pm

So last night we had a friend over for some board games. It was a good time. We laughed, we played, I made dinner. Dinner, by the way, was a delicious pasta sauce made from scratch (and pasta too, duh, but the sauce ... oh! the sauce!). It's pretty much just canned skinned tomatoes and butter, simmered for 45-60 minutes with an opinion. Good god it's good. Of course it's a lot of butter, but still. Tasty! I got the recipe from Smitten Kitchen.

Anyway that's not the point. While playing our games I had me a glass of wine. Nothing new there, I love wine. As alcohols, I much prefer red wine to almost anything but scotch. I've never really liked sugary frou-frou drinks let alone their crazy calorie counts. And while I do enjoy a good stout, beer doesn't do much for me or give me that same happy buzzed elitist (who'm I kidding?) feeling that red wine does. Plus beer just metabolizes to a potent nasty sugar so its no good.

The benefits of red wine are generally well documented and it's not all that detrimental to weight loss. So I like to have a glass or two with or after dinner. But last night I slipped as I sipped and poured another glass. And another glass. Normally even that's okay. Friends, socializing, I can accept being a bit buzzed. The real problem was that after our friend had gone home and we were relaxing before bed, I got the munchies. And I gave in to them.

I promptly ate a slice of bread with butter, a plate of cold macaroni with parmesan (sauce was long gone ... oh! the sauce!), then two more pieces of bread with butter, and then about 3/4 of a pint of Ben & Jerry's just to add insult to injury.

Good god, what the hell happened there? I'd been doing so well not eating late at night and just grazing on the fatty calories, and I have 1 or 2 glasses of extra wine and I'm like Homer Simpson in a donut factory. le sigh. Thinking about it, getting buzzed routinely leads to the munchies for me, so that's something I need to be aware of moving forward.

With a weigh-in tomorrow, I'm being extra careful today to drink water, eat judiciously, and not be insane. Again.

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