Ground Zero, 2:13 pm:

Ok, one too many cookies and another jug of water and I am too full. I really think it's the water that's doing it though, which is good.

Most of the food (except for the cookies and the candy) is now put away for tomorrow. Tomorrow I will try to restrain myself to the cabbage unstuffed and perhaps 1 ham bbq, maybe a very small piece of cake. No snacks, plenty of water. We have been inviting lots of people who were not i on our party back to eat tomorrow, so hopefully most of the really bad stuff will be gone after tomorrow.

The trouble with these parties is that, as much as you try to tell yourself otherwise, they never truly last for only one day. It's best to come up with some kind of plan for getting through the additional days. It's ok to have one splurge day, more than that and you're just asking for scale trouble. I think that my game plan's pretty good. Because the dish I brought in is a meal, and a yummy filling low point one at that, and because I made a ton of it, I can get away with just eating that the days following, and I'm still participating in the week long food fest and still staying within plan.