Long time lurker, first time poster. My significant other and I decided to lose weight together. I’ve been eating around 1500 calories a day and he’s been intermittent fasting. We’ve both lost around 10 lbs and I’m really proud of us! Instead of going out for Valentine’s Day (expensive, covid), I decided to cook a steak dinner at home for us last night.
I went all out and didn’t worry about the calories for one night. We had a salad that covered about half off our plates, scalloped butternut squash (YUM), and a 6 oz sirloin with a mushroom cream sauce (for him) and a bordelaise sauce (for me). For dessert, I planned on making single serving molten chocolate lava cakes.
At the end of dinner, we were pretty full. Not uncomfortably so, but enough that we didn’t want dessert, at least not right away. An hour and a half after eating, I asked him “real talk, do you want dessert, or should we just skip it tonight?”. So we skipped dessert. I’ll be making it for lunch today instead so we can have a little treat on Valentine’s Day.
I know that this is a very small victory, but we both tend to overeat when we have a nice meal that tastes really good in front of us. I’m proud of us for holding off on dessert because we simply didn’t want it then. We definitely blew our calorie budgets, we still exhibited some self control.
Losing weight is a marathon, not a sprint! Every small victory should be celebrated.
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