Eating · Exposure
Restaurant & Menu Exposure
Unknown portions, unknown ingredients, an audience — the point IS the uncertainty
Restaurants are where control ends: unknown portions, unknown ingredients, someone else's timing, an audience. This one-page plan builds ordering as exposure — from menu previewed and safe-item ordered up to menu unseen and someone else orders.
The restaurant
Who I'm going with
My rules about menus / ordering / eating out
Ordering ladder
Rung
Ordering plan
Rule broken
SUDS
Example rungs: preview the menu, order a safe item · order without modifications ('no dressing on the side') · order something you haven't eaten in years · let a friend order for you · sit-down restaurant, no preview.
Response prevention after (no compensating meal / exercise)
Support script — how I'll ask my company not to comment on my order
The uncertainty is the point
You don't need to know the calories to be nourished. Every meal where you don't need to know teaches the brain that not-knowing is survivable — and eventually, ordinary.