All you can eat Italian buffet. Part 2 -  After I've been

We went. We ate. I sweated through my polo neck because The Castle was absolutely roasting.

Part two of this week's Chatting with Cara is here, and I'm telling you exactly how the all you can eat Italian went.

What I ate, how the evening played out, and what an unremarkable, genuinely normal relationship with food actually looks like on a Wednesday night in Wem.

And spoiler - it was pretty boring. Which is entirely the point.

Here's how the evening went —

The food was great. Pizza, lasagne, gnocchi in a garlicky herb sauce, a tomato mascarpone risotto that was genuinely fabulous, meatballs, arancini, garlic bread. I had a little bit of most things. Twice. Because I wanted to. Because it was nice.

Luca came with us and managed a decent amount of carbonara, which felt like a win.

Stefan got his money's worth. Fully. Three plates and extremely full by the end.

Sue, who has done my mindful eating workshop, stopped when she'd had enough because she doesn't like the feeling of being too full. That's the work right there.

And then there was the tiramisu. Free with the meal, offered to everyone, and honestly not very nice. Defrosted, bland, a bit crunchy in the wrong places. And I nearly ate the whole thing without really noticing, because I was mid-conversation and not paying attention.

Once Sue said it wasn't great, I came back to it and thought yeah, actually, I wouldn't have chosen this if I'd been present. I ate it on autopilot. That's the honest bit.

And that's what I want to talk about in this episode because that moment with the tiramisu wasn't a failure.

It was just information.

Something to get curious about, not critical about.

The people pleasing thing I mentioned in part one? That showed up too. Not in saying yes to things I didn't want. In not saying out loud that I didn't like something, because I didn't want to put a dampener on it for anyone else.

Small thing. Worth noticing.

Then we walked home. Had a cup of tea. The next morning I had protein porridge, eggs on toast, taught a Pilates class, had my decaf cappuccino.

Didn't spiral. Didn't compensate. Didn't have a single intrusive thought about the night before.

Just a nice night out, filed away as a nice night out.

That is what an unremarkable relationship with food looks like.

Not perfect. Not white-knuckling it. Just easy.

If you're reading this thinking you could never trust yourself at a buffet, that you'd go back for plate after plate, spiral for the rest of the week, feel awful about yourself - I want you to know it doesn't have to be like that.

It genuinely doesn't.

If you want to get here too, one-to-one coaching is six months at £199 a month. Three months of weekly calls, two months of fortnightly calls, and a final month of WhatsApp support so you feel held the whole way through. The tools, the science, and everything tailored to you.

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P.S. The American all you can eat is next month and none of us really fancy it. I still don't know what a corn dog is and I'm not sure I need to find out.

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