Is today a red or a yellow? WWYD?

ABooth · Post by **ABooth** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 2:10 am

Last week I had my first week of 5 green n-days and took my weekend S days as scheduled. Even picked going out on Saturday night for my anniversary instead of Friday just to keep it n-day.

Saturday morning I picked 3 gallons of strawberries with my daughter. We made some jam, baked a pound cake to eat with them and froze some. Today we made a fresh strawberry pie with homemade crust. So, I had a piece (like 1/8 of a 9" pie) after dinner. I planned it when I made the pie.

Just wondering what everyone would mark today, red or yellow. Or is this a fail-worthy event?

ironchef · Post by **ironchef** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 4:54 am

I would just mark it red. Certainly sounds fail-worthy - yum!

That's just me. Red's don't bother me that much emotionally and I like to mark them "for the record". Then if I get to the end of a few months and I'm not losing or maintaining, I can look back and see whether my HabitCal shows a lot of red and yellow. If the balance looks like there isn't enough green, and the scales say the same, then I can decide to tighten up.

wosnes · Post by **wosnes** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 10:21 am

I would have gone out on Friday - your anniversary is an S day. However, for me, only the dinner would have been an S, not the whole day.

As for the piece of pie, I agree with ironchef. Sounds like it was completely worth a red day!

ABooth · Post by **ABooth** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 1:37 pm

Thanks! When I thought about it later, I realized strawberry season is not a birthday, anniversary, religious or national holiday.

Also, our anniversary was last week, but we are going on vacation next week and going out again w/o the kids (my ILs are going on the trip to keep them that night). That's why I didn't take Friday as an S day.

oolala53 · Post by **oolala53** » Thu Jun 12, 2014 8:42 pm

Also depends how the concoction was made.

I sometimes make a shortcake (no sugar) and cover pieces of it with fruit with a dusting of stevia or a teaspoon or two of sugar and plain yogurt. I do not consider that a fail. But I definitely eat less starch in the rest of the meal, just because otherwise I would get too full.

But if it was more desserty than that, I'd vote for honesty, and either call it a fail, or designate it one of my allowed S days, since you planned for it. I personally try to save those for later in the month, if possible, but that's not necessary.