On 16 Oct night, wife discarded fish (already boxed up), 番茄蛋, and some veg. I later told her the fish was expensive, difficult to cook in small quantities, so next time no need to discard. I would need to deal with this wrong-time temptation, which was relatively manageable in recent weeks — I had put more than 10 boxes of fish in company fridge.
Here’s the challenging situation when I came home:
* I was not hungry coming home around 10pm. This was a good starting point.
* I wanted to eat only smoothie + my favorite fruits (I recently bought a lot) + raw veg. This was a good plan.
* In fact, I called my wife at 8.15pm to request “please box up all leftovers. I want to eat my smoothie only.” But she only boxed up the fish 🙁
So the leftovers were a real derailer. I was feeling hopeless. Recent experience showed more than 95% failure rate fighting this wrong-time temptation.
So I took quick action to box up the 番茄蛋, and the veg. I could tell that within an hour I would end up eating them, against my well-thought-out plan. I felt doomed and powerless against this wrong-time temptation, just like every single day in the past weeks. The only bao3shan1 battle plan I had was using lettuce to replace rice. My success rate was 50-50.
Q: after the dramatic dump, how did my late night meal end up ?
A: much better. There was suddenly no wrong-time temptation, miraculously. I ended up eating my favorite fruits…
Clearly, I was really NOT hungry. This battle was all about hedonic hunger, or temptation.