Wednesday, September 21, 2011

What I Ate Wednesday v13.0- Diet Sabotage

Traitor! I call a saboteur!  Today was a full out assault!  A diet sabotage!
It is What I Ate Wednesday.  My favorite blogging day of the week and I will share with you the sad tale of diet sabotage that occurred against me today.
I realize that I do not need to go on a "diet"...HOWEVER...I have had my fair share of indulgences over the last 2 weeks. (anniversary, Magical dining month, Gator games). 
Plus the fall is the start of "fun" season; birthday, football, fall, thanksgiving, holiday.  It's all downhill from here folks.  I DO NOT want to buy new jeans,so today was my day to "eat clean" and watch my indulgences.
Welp, that didn't happen.  Epic fit blogger fail.  Here's my "fit blogger" journal.  Judge away.  Yes, I ate all this. On a Tuesday.

8am- woke up late.  Banana + soy milk + 1 scoop dessert protein
10am - Pumpkin Spice Cupcake
1130am - Cedar's chickpea mix, roasted veggies, 1/2 cup quinoa
130pm - Thai food with Amber. (love you girl!)  All the way to the Thai place I thought about "healthy" Thai options.
Stop taking blog pics! :)
 "Get the ginger chicken", I told myself.  
"What would you like?", asks the waitress.
"Red curry chicken. Medium", hangs head in shame.
My whole lunch.  JK.
I came home fully resolute to have a 100% healthy salad for dinner.

3pm- Grapefruit
Look how committed I was.  I was hungry, but I ate a grapefruit.  I blogged.  I did work...then came the phone call.
Husband, "I have to go to 'World of Beer' with my boss tonight.  It's his birthday."
Me - "ok"
Husband-"Do you want to go?"
Me - Silence.
Husband - "What if someone picks you up?"
Me - "I gotta go run."

So I ran a "swifty" 3 miles with 4 thirty second sprints in the last mile to boot.  8:45 average mile pace.

645pm - Post run Pumpkin spice cupcake.  I'm weak as they come.
7pm- Green Giant Healthy Weight frozen veggies - black beans, edamame, carrots. I was trying.
Welcome to World of Beer.  Where all your dreams come true and your jeans never fit.  They had PUMPKIN ALE! What creepy evil diet muse planned this?  I had been dreaming about pumpkin ale for a solid week...and that can feel like forever.
So I had my first pumpkin ale.  I'll have salad tomorrow right?
Hello gorgeous Pumpkin Ale. We meet at last.
It was awesome. My diet was sabotaged by the best friends....and I guess that's okay.  We all have days that life throws us off track.  My life isn't measured by what I weigh.  I work out hard, I run, I live.  Those are the things that matter. Right?
A tale of 2 Carissa's.
What do you do on days when you feel like you "eat bad"?

Love and social pumpkin ale drinking butterflies,
Carissa & Kyle
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13 comments:

  1. i think it's great you allow yourself to have those days and your honest about it. so many people try to hide their "bad" eating days. But since when is induging and having a good time a "bad" day. you're living life and enjoying it and that is way more important than that number on the scale.

    great post ♥

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  2. World of Beer sounds like my heaven. That pic of you pumpkin ale looks like a starry world globe! :)

    I indulge on the weekends... and then I have my long runs on Sundays. Life's no fun if you can't indulge. Why else do we go to the gym?! LOL!

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  3. Cheers to you! Looks like a great day. :)

    You have inspired me to put a couple extra sprints in my run. We'll see...this weekend maybe??

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  4. I fully understand the indulge for an evening out. I just turned 21 and it's a whole new way to socialize, never pass it up! All of your pumpkin is so festive, it is making autumn seem much to close!

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  5. Haha - it happens. I do that all the time at restaurants - you know, the "hangs head in shame" part when you totally planned to get something else.

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  6. oh yes, we have those days, but we need them for our sanity. I think that smile says it all!
    Cheers!

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  7. When I feel like I ate "bad" food I always tell myself that its not going to kill me and that its ok because I eat pretty healthy most of the time. :)

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  8. I think that honestly it wasn't so bad of a day. One beer (especially pumpkin!) won't hurt you and you even went on a run. Don't beat yourself up. just don't. Look at all the healthy things you did eat and the good things they did to your body. grapefruit? banana? even the pumpkin in the cupcake. ALl these probably do good things to you. Your dinner too. I'd say you're not as far off as you think you are.

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  9. I just try to do better tomorrow! I'm still learning. :)

    Well that and I tell myself "It's okay, the calorie boost revved up your metabolism. You totally needed to eat that cheeseburger."

    Yup. My inner-cheeseburger-lover is very sneaky.

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  10. Thanks for all the great feedback guys! It's all about moderation!

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  11. I guarentee you will never look back on your life and say " i wish i had eaten salad at my desk" or "i wish i had stayed home and not ever had beer with my husband".

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  12. Your day looks great to me! Its more important to listen to your body and eat when you're hungry than to stress over everything you eat. Plus, who can resist good curry and pumpkin ale?

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  13. I think we all have those days. I try to not dwell on them and get some good rest and love on. :)

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Your comments make me smile! :)

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