It's a new day...thank you God

Hi there,
    So yesterday was January 1st, the first new day of a new year...an opportunity for a fresh start, for me to begin practicing mindfulness.  And already, I have blown it.  I am assuming that mindfulness extends to thinking before you eat - in which case, my weakness for Chinese food, and the availability of the lunch buffet, is the root of all evil.  I don't eat Chinese food all that often, but when I do, I have my favorites - and none of them scream "healthy", exactly.  So yesterday, I mindfully filled my plate with my favorites and I ate them - and chatted with our friends who had joined the excursion...it was nice and quite civilized.  I ate with chopsticks for a while - their main purpose being to slow me down since I am not particularly chopstick proficient...and then it happened.  My plate was empty, my stomach was full - I had even waited long enough (probably with the help of said chopsticks) for my brain to recognize that my stomach was full and yet...I still loaded another plate with more. And once it was on my plate I inevitably ate it.  WHY?? Why do I do what I know is not good?  How can I be such a creature of rationalization even when I am TRYING to be MINDFUL?
   I am grateful I don't have to wait for a new year for another fresh start.  I can start with a new day or even a new moment.  It is comforting to know that St. Paul had the same issues...well, not with Chinese food particularly, but he admits in his letter to the Romans "I don't do what I want to do and I do what I don't want to do" (paraphrase).  A fresh start, a new creation in Christ...I am hopefully becoming one.  It is a very slow process.
  How are you doing with your New Year's Resolutions?
Blessings,
Janet