Yesterday was Friday.

Friday’s tend to be my cheat days.

Yesterday also coincided with my last day on the job. Do we want to talk how much Cheating was going on yesterday?

I’ve been pretty good at tracking EVERYTHING that I eat. Not eating tons of fried foods, not eating a lot of greasy foods, and definitely not a lot of sweets.

I had all of that yesterday.

It all started with one of the girls bringing in Donuts. Dunkin Donuts donuts actually. There were custard filled. Jelly filled. Pretty iced ones. I ate two. A custard and a jelly filled.

Strikes one and two.

My bosses came up right before they left with a cake…with buttercream icing.

Strike 3. (I ate a nice, big piece. It was delicious. I regret nothing….at that point.)

Then they handed over money for pizza.

That’s strikes 3-6.

I ate so much crap yesterday.

Don’t worry, my stomach did NOT appreciate cheat day yesterday. It rebelled against me BIG TIME. I still regret nothing.

I didn’t count my calories. I just ate. And ate. And ate. There were a lot of emotions going on yesterday. I didn’t have the chance to go run through those emotions so I ate through them. I enjoyed that greasy pizza. I enjoyed that cake. The donuts were amazing.

Yesterday was the biggest cheat day I’ve had in a very long time.

But you know what…sometimes you need it. We’re not robots. We do have the ability to enjoy foods, even the ones that aren’t healthy. And guess what? We should enjoy those foods sometimes. Not all the time and in moderation, but a piece of cake or a piece of pizza isn’t going to be the end all be all. Sure we may have to spend an extra 20 minutes on the treadmill, but why not? We can treat ourselves sometimes. Obviously now I’m going to eat clean. I’m going to eat my veggies. Drink my smoothies. And bust my butt to work off all the shit that I consumed, but I enjoyed it. It was nice eating and not worrying about how much I was eating. BUT that mentality is also what has me in the position I’m in. That I need to lose so much weight to get back to a manageable level.

But it’s one day.

Today it’s been the raisin bran and banana. My fruit smoothie. I have my asparagus and mushrooms and rice for dinner. I’ll be good today.

Tomorrow…it’s Kennywood day. Soooo I’ll be doing hours upon hours of walking…and eating potato patch fries and corn dogs. But LOTS of walking. Perhaps I’ll hit up the gym beforehand.

And when it comes down to it…cheating is cheating. Even if I save one day out of the week for it….it should still be a manageable cheat.