This is maybe quite specific..!
I've just started on the Lighter Life programme - its a weight loss programme for people who are more than 3 stone overweight. The first 14 weeks of this programme involve total abstinence from normal food. You are given food packs (bars, shakes and soups) and you have 4 of these a day. And water or black tea or black coffee. Nothing else. At all. Ever.
Now, lots of people have social events that occur in this 14 week time frame, either weddings, or summer bbqs or the like. Both our group leader and our manual for this part of the course have tried to address what to do in these situations to avoid food. (I'm guessing this is for when you don;t want to explain everything to people - I have found that when I start to explain it to people that you spend the next hour either answering questions or being told thats stupid, so I can imagine that if you had a huge family group you wouldn;t want to go over the same stuff again and again and again)
However, most of these coping things seem, frankly, to involve down right lying. Basically they have been things like "move your food around your plate and people won't know there is nothing actually going from the plate" or "wander around a buffet with a few crumbs on your plate and people will think you have eaten".
Maybe I'm being incredibly niaive here but if I was a bride and groom, I'd like to KNOW that someone wasnt going to eat the meal that I had paid for them to have - I'd give them the chance to sit at the table with everyone and be social etc, but I'd like not to have to pay for a plate of food that they know in advance they aren't going to eat. Or if I was hosting a bbq or something, I'd like to know not to count someone in the figures, rather than have them lie to me or deceive me about how much they are or aren't eating.
it is hard in a lot of these situatiuons to make your soup or your shake, and definately hard to answer all the questions about the programme, but I'm being left disillusioned by a programme which seems to encourage people to lie, especially to hosts who are entertaining them at their own cost.
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To think we shouldn't be encouraged to lie about social events or to hosts
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Alderney · 07/08/2008 18:51
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