So cheat day....what a delight... right?!?!
Well, I had 2 cheat days in January and I still lost 8 pounds! Awesome!!! HOWEVER - last Saturday, I had a FEAST of a cheat day and it has taken me all week to get back to what I was at the beginning of last Saturday. I seriously started last Saturday at 212.2 pounds and did not return to that until today. Yikes.
So today, I return to cheat day, but today's cheat day is different than previous cheat days. Today, I'll have some dessert, but it won't be a day of desserts...I'll have some carbs, but it won't be a full day of chowing down heavy white carbs. It will be a controlled cheat day.
It may feel like this defeats the purpose of cheat day, but believe me, keeping cheat day in check is going to make February an even more productive month...(which by the way I have to shovel all snow the whole month of February because I didn't reach my goal of 10 pounds - self-imposed cost of not reaching my goal...and probably self-imposed cost of cheat day gone wild...)
Last Saturdays cheat day made me feel like I could be the chubby girl who secretly eats a dozen donuts in the car before she gets home. That is frightening. Let me frighten you with what I ate last Saturday:
Breakfast:
Breakfast:
Small (really it was small) Blueberry muffin
Small (again...I promise it was small) Chocolate Chip Muffin
Snack:
Fun Size Snickers
Fun Size Kit Kat
Lunch:
Medium Size Sloppy Joe
5 Jo Jos (potato wedges)
Second Lunch:
Panera Sierra Turkey Sandwich
1/2 Cinnamon Roll
1 Chocolate Filled Croissant
Dinner:
3 pieces Pizza
Bag of M&M's
Cherry Coke
Now...I don't want you to get the idea that I ate like this every day to reach my lovely current weight...If I ate like this everyday, I would tack on another 100 pounds...My Fitness Tracker says I'd be 232.5 pounds in 5 weeks.
Another shocker for you: I ate 4199 calories. Okay that's bad....here's what is BAD BAD, I consumed 267 grams of sugar. Do you know how many teaspoons of sugar that is??? There are about 4 grams of sugar in a teaspoon. I consumed nearly 68 TEASPOONS of sugar. Wow...that was a shocker. And I felt like crap. So today...while I will have a few indulgences that I won't allow myself the rest of the time...I will not sabotage all my efforts from last week to satisfy my sweet tooth. I will enjoy, but not make myself sick. Today, I vow to be controlled.
