A New Day is Dawning

It's not even 8:45 AM and I am on my third donut. No, I did not fall off the bandwagon. I am enjoying my first Cheat Day on the Slow Carb Diet. I won't waste your time extolling the virtues of said diet, but I will say that it beats counting calories.

Basically six days a week I'm very good. As in, no grains or sugars good.i make one exception for a small dose of very dark chocolate per day to keep me sane, I mean come on! I'm a single mother who doesn't drink or do caffeine, I need a crutch of some sort. Then on day seven I make myself sick eating everything I craved the other days.

I love this strategy, because what I've found for myself is I do better saying "later," to a craving than, "no." When I see something I just have to have I write it down so I'll remember on Cheat Day. Then on Cheat Day I make myself eat everything, and I mean everything.

What I didn't know until I tried it was how sick I would feel after eating foods I had eaten everyday of my life. It's crazy, I had always been a very emotional eater, but the six days leading up to Cheat Day the emotionality of foods had been taken out of my diet. And after such a purging diet, the excess of Cheat Day was disgusting. I was actually looking forward to going back to my sugar/grain-free diet.

The total tally for Cheat Day? I had six donuts, two hamburgers, extra large fries and Dr. Pepper, a roll of butterfly crackers, a handful of salt and vinegar kettle chips, and a Mike's Hard Lemonade. And I'm already planning for next Sunday. We'll see how I do, but for now I'm down to 166 and feeling good about it.