There are no failures.... Just learning experiences

At the weekend, while finalising my ongoing diet plan, I was supposed to be still following ADF with a fast day on Saturday. On Saturday's I typically do my big grocery shop for the upcoming week. Lesson learned: if Saturday is going to be a fast day, order your shopping for delivery on Saturday morning so you don't have to enter a store. And ideally order it on a food day, when you're not hungry or anticipating hunger...
I binged on Saturday then again on Sunday. The Sunday one of course falls within the letter, if not the spirit, of ADF - eat whatever you want on the eating days - but I want to feel more in control so I'm not happy about it. This next weekend my fast day is Sunday, so that's no problem, but the week after I need to remember to order the shopping early in the week. Then I can avoid all supermarkets on fast days...

This morning I was invited to a work's lunch as a thank you for some work our team did over the weekend. I was so torn for most of the morning between missing a fast day to be sociable or missing the lunch to stick to the plan. I know from lots and lots of experience that I don't do well with flexibility when on a diet - if I have one treat meal it tends to turn into 3 days of non-compliance. In the end, 3 minutes before the team left, I decided not to go, and turned down the invite. Even now I'm not sure if that was a good decision because I want to commit, or a wussy decision because I don't trust myself. Either way, I didn't go - and I know I ate fewer calories because of it, so in the long run I hope it was a good choice.