Special events are always a bit hard when you’re a Figure Competitor, especially when there are meals involved! Weddings, banquets, and award ceremonies are among the worst; plated meals being the most complicated to overcome.
If you have to go to a fancy event with a meal anytime soon – pray for a buffet! I have mastered the art of eating your own meal at a buffet without anyone noticing.
Step 1 – Pick a sassy and cute outfit,
Summery and sassy even though there is still snow on the ground…
Step 2 – Get your Ziploc On!
So I have to WAIT to eat…right?
Step 3 – Grab your biggest and cutest purse and shove the Ziplocs in it.
The size of a Figure Competitor’s purse is a crucial factor for success.
Step 4 – Line up for the buffet and grab a plate and then covertly fall out of line.
While their backs are turned you make the magic happen!
Step 5 – Retrieve hidden Ziplocs with your prized chicken and sweet potatoes.
Whip out the Ziplocs and start plating your perfectly portioned meal.
Step 6 – Sit back and relax until the rest of the table arrives with their random food that you can’t eat.
No one is going to be the wiser!!
Step 7 – DO NOT eat the dessert.
Yes it is DRENCHED in caramel…but that doesn’t make it ok.
Step 8 – Enjoy the event and your Super Woman skills in eating Ziploc purse food.
Do you just eat a lot of lukewarm meals? That doesn’t sound very enjoyable. I mean, I realize it’s not really about the food, but lukewarm food just sounds really unappetizing.
You would be AMAZED at how long things stay warm in the Ziploc containers! 🙂
If you’re forced to carry a clutch for style reasons you can duct tape Ziploc bags to your inner thighs.
Bwahahahahahahahaha!
I don’t usually take my own stuff with me unless I have reason to think there will really be nothing I could eat (that hasn’t happened yet). I find at a buffet there’s usually salad, chopped veggies, chicken, sometimes shrimp and other seafood and it’s nice to have a change from the stuff I make at home. As long as it fits my macros for the day and it’s not pre or post WO then I think it’s all good!
Nic
I would totally eat from the buffet if I could, unfortunately I have some health issues that really restrict my diet. I can’t eat gluten, sugar, dairy, green veggies, and a few other random things. So instead of just going for some meat and adding a side that works for me from my purse I just bring the whole thing. Unfortunately I have to be really disciplined in order to be healthy. 🙂
You have more self control than anyone I know. You are totally my hero!
Well, I can’t eat anything that they serve and I want to eat…so into the purse it goes! 🙂
I’m open about not eating buffet food, or other available foods. I will directly pull out my ziplock containers and enjoy my meal. Besides, me eating is about me and not what other people see me do. 🙂 But your covert-op is so smooth! I may try it just to be sneaky.
I like the covertness of it! I am usually covert just to avoid the bazillion and one questions…sometimes I like to just blend in. 🙂
Love the narrative with photos! I do the same thing. 🙂 Why take a chance with buffet food? No one knows if the veggies were cooked in oil, butter, or some sort of sugary seasoning, etc., so I totally do the same thing. Have you ever seen purse coolers? I have one & it’s AWESOME! I just put a lil ice pack in it & it keeps my food cold, PLUS the purse is fashionable! 😀
Oh man, I need one of those STAT! I have been known to have a ice pack in my purse on hot summer days just to keep my meals fresh. 🙂
When going to a bar for the day to wait for my boyfriend to run the Boston Marathon, I brought my own chicken and asparagus in a zip lock bag!!!
Nice. I am ALWAYS eating out of a ziploc. I really think they should sponsor us! 🙂