Skipping lunch is a rookie mistake

So is skipping breakfast.  The basic theory is that if you go without a meal, you get yourself to the point of being voraciously hungry when you do finally have a meal.  And then you act like a crazed animal when you finally do have the chance to eat.  

Yet I still succumb to this...

So yesterday, I was at an offsite conference where lunch was catered with the usual roundup of sandwiches, salads, etc.  I had to make a bunch of phone calls at the break, and I was also avoiding the process of figuring out which parts of the catering table would be POINTS-friendly.  In other words, I was too busy  and too lazy to eat lunch.  

I walked into my house at about 7 PM knowing that I wasn't going to have dinner until 8 PM.  I eyed my refrigerator and cabinets, and I started to get dizzy with food lust.  I began ransacking like a burglar looking for jewelry.  In the process, I would conservatively estimate that I consumed about 14 POINTS worth of snacks in about 7 minutes.  And then I had dinner an hour later.  I could have easily fond a nice little 6 to 7 POINTS tide-over at lunch, and I would have ended up ahead.  

You'd think after being at Weight Watchers for almost a decade that the fallacies of skipping meals would have fully penetrated my consciousness.  Next time I will know better.  I swear!