Month 2 Day 8 - When You Can't Say No

I don't know how many people are in jobs where eating is required, but it is occasionally required in mine.

The occasions? Birthday dinners. We help our residents at Timbercrest celebrate their birthdays each month with a dinner. A local Church brings in a cake and the meal is nice, and we as staff help with serving the meal. They are great fun (but I happen to think that older adults are great fun on a daily basis anyhow). :-)

I did OK for the meal itself - chicken cordon bleu, a twice baked potato, and green beans almondine. I would have skipped the tater if I had much of a choice.

The Church brought in a home made birthday cake - like my Mom used to make. It was a cherry cake with butter cream frosting. Our dining services provided "birthday cake" ice cream, which is vanilla with little pieces of candy and frosting mixed throughout.

Now, the complicating factor is that many of our residents feel very parental concerning staff. If I had skipped the tater, there would have been questions. If I skipped the cake, I would be been seen as rude to our Church guests (who brought it). And what is cake without ice cream?

In all, I failed "The Plan" with the birthday dinner, but kept on track the rest of the day.

That seems to be the necessity when you can't say No. In the past, I would have two servings of chicken cordon bleu, any left over taters, cake and ice cream. So I kept within reason, but outside the parameters.

Here's the journal for Thursday, Aug. 11 -
Weight: 235.0 - up 6/10 from yesterday
Breakfast: three eggs, four strips of bacon, 1 cheese stick
Dinner: See above :-(
Supper: McDonald's southwest chicken salad with 1T SW dressing
No snacks today

Hope to do better on Friday!