LX: Overeating and Undersleeping

Since, hmmm...I started liking food really, so when I was around eight years old, I have eaten most of my meals with the gusto of one who may be eating her last ever serving of that dish for the rest of her life. And I'd eat it quickly, not slowly, so not the way you would expect someone to in that frame of mind. I managed to continue this habit on for the next fourteen years or so without ever becoming obese. Yay for me.

But for the last few months, I've been trying to take it slow, and if not slow then I've been trying to stop eating a bit before I felt full. And this has been working for me. Until it all went out the window tonight.

What started with a craving for wonton noodles at one of my family's favourite Chinese restaurants, Ho Yuen Kee, turned into a typical over-ordering on my mom's part and a feeling of compulsion to finish up certain dishes. We ended up getting (I've been using bullets a lot this week! And apologies for the romanization of Chinese, I rarely look at the English translations on a menu):

• Shredded chicken with jellyfish
• Lo sui duck
• Tofu with vegetables and mushrooms
• Wonton noodles
• Ho fun noodles with egg and beef
• Almond tea/milk
• Silken tofu with ginger syrup

I wasn't even that hungry to begin with, and yeah, we brought home some leftovers, but man was I FULL! And it has been so long since I felt that full. It reminds me of why I stopped overeating.

And when we got home I just could not imagine going to sleep in my state, so what did we do? Watch tonight's American Idol (PVR'd, I can't stand all the wasted time on commercials!) and an old episode of Project Runway.

Here I am, close to 11:30pm, and I have to wake up around 5:00am for yoga. I swear, it is impossible to get more than 6.5 hours of sleep during the week!

American Idol favourites tonight: Michael "Big Mike" Lynch (I can't believe he made Kara cry!) and Tim Lambert (not based on tonight's performance but as a whole).