"Cheat" Day

So, once a week I am allowed a "cheat" day.  This means I can have whatever I want, within moderation.

I had been looking forward to this all week, of course.

What had I been looking forward to most?  Fuzzy's breakfast tacos!!!
Maybe I had never actually had these before and only seen them on the menu, because they were not as scrumptious as I had built them up to be.  I had two --- one chorizo, egg and cheese; the other the same + potato.  I've had this sort of thing before, but it just didn't taste that great this time.  Hot sauce helped, but not enough.

The other thing I had been craving was a Double Chocolate Cheesecake slice from Barnes and Noble cafe.  I didn't end up getting that.

Instead, because cheat day is not just about me, but also about my husband (He is really trying to stay on the diet --- it's more difficult for him because he's not home as much as I am this summer.) we had Smoothie King for lunch.  He got his usual full sugar large Angel Food smoothie.  I got a small "skinny" (sugarfree, I think, is what that means) Chocolate Peanut Power Plus (I think that's the name --- chocolate, pb, and banana).  That was pretty yummy and I suppose it satisfied my chocolate craving.

We had a friend's birthday celebration to go to, so the rest of the night wasn't really about our cravings or choices so much.  We ate at Babe's Chicken Dinner restaurant.  I had a little bit of the salad (NOTHING nutritious about this salad), a thigh of hickory smoked chicken and a leg of fried chicken, just a little bit of corn and mashed potatoes with gravy, and a biscuit with butter and molasses (not much molasses) and a Diet Dr. Pepper to drink. 

Of course, birthday cake was served, so I also had a slice of that.  Yummy!

Afterward we went over to their house to continue the celebration and I had another Diet Dr. Pepper and a couple pieces of licorice.

All in all, I would say it was pretty successful, and this is what I learned from "Cheat" Day:

*Not everything you crave is really as yummy as it is cracked up to be.  Listen to your tastebuds.
*It's nice to have a cheat day fall on a day when people expect you to be part of the food celebration.
*I really do like Diet Dr. Pepper, but I wish that waitress would have brought me a water when my glass was empty.
*Even when you're cheating, you can still be healthier than you would be if you weren't even thinking about your diet.  I ate smaller portions and still took a lot of care to avoid sugar, for the most part.