Let's Meet For Dinner

Meet me at Starbucks, wanna go to lunch, let's go out to eat, let's get a drink, happy hour at my house! Why is my social life so centered around eating? This is the hardest thing for me to deal with. I am at an age where in order to see friends, you have to do something and it usually involves eating. Remember when you were a kid and you just hung out with friends? Now there are only one or two friends I would ever consider saying "let's hang out". In order to be with any other friends, food has to be between us. This is a constant struggle for me, because once I am in restuarant mode, I do not want to order from the healthy, low fat entrees. I feel deprived and to be honest I have little self-control. So to be successful losing weight, I have curtailed my dining out experiences. I still go out once or twice a week, but many times I think , we should go out, and then swallow my words because I know I can't do it and still lose weight. Least those words I'm swallowing have no calories!