I think it really is a difficult issue - I am going out on saturday night on a hen night and I was going to say that I am doing Lt but now I am not sure.... I dont know if i want to draw attention to myself... i cant not go to the meal as I dropped out of going to magaluf. I dont want to go to the meal and everyone wonder wtf i am doing there if im not going to eat or drink! I have already said im going to drive and that got loads of raised eyebrows...
It definitely is a hard one - all my friends have beautiful figures, none struggle with their weight. I hid myself away when I put on my last stone - so the weight I am now is the weight they all used to seeing me at, so they wont even notice that I have lost any weight. If I tell them I havent ate anything for a month and they dont really see a difference they will be thinking I have lost the plot! lol
I would have no issues ordering food and not eating it. The food is not going to help anyone else anyway, it will either be ate by someone else in the restuarant or it will be thrown out anyway.
I do however refuse to have a plastic bag in a shop if i can do without? lol
And scazman - I can totally relate to what you say about being forced to eat all the food on your plate when you were younger. I wasnt allowed to leave the table until I ate all my dinner ( i have memories of sitting at the table for hours after everyone had finished
). My whole family eats at the speed of lightning as well! Meal times where a hoof it into ya session... very embarassing sometimes when im out on a date and i forget myself and my plate is almost empty and the guy is sitting with a full plate! lol
And buffets... well now dont get me started... if we went to a buffet we were expected to make it the biggest bargain session out...!!!! It would have been considered a waste to go to a pizza hut buffet and eat 2 slices of pizza... we would have aimed for 10 slices at least
lol