Relive my first (really earned) Cheat Meal!

What does "really earned" mean? Really earned means I ate clean the entire week; not one morsel passed these lips that I was not supposed to be eating. For some reason, it was not that hard this week either. Not sure why that is but hey, I'm not going to spend brain power trying to analyze it. I'll just accept it and hope that whatever it was stays with me.

But back to my cheat meal - I've been wondering all week what I would eat. The only thing I've been wanting this week that I kept telling myself I could have on Saturday night is ice cream. Well, that can be part of my cheat meal but I'm entitled to way more than that! What sinful food have I been depriving myself of that I can pig out on Saturday night?

I'm very happy to say that not a lot of things came to mind which means that my normal diet has indeed become my "normal" diet. I'm not depriving myself of anything! Well, that's just great! I have a cheat meal coming and don't know what to eat! Jeez!

I did find out however that it's not really a particular food I crave, it's the convenience of certain foods that I struggle with. For example, Friday night at the end of the work week, I wanted to order chinese rather than cook. I don't particularly love Chinese but the only other "delivery" food is pizza and I just won't go there anymore. So the urge to order Chinese last night was pretty strong but I decided that Chinese was not worth losing that cheat meal, even though I had no idea what that would be. I did know that it would include ice cream though!

So I survived last night and then there was Saturday. I was alone which meant I didn't have to cook but I still had to eat! "No cook" food is not usually healthy or "clean" so I refused to go there this morning. I made it through breakfast and lunch eating clean so I was now down to figuring out what my cheat meal would be. I needed to figure this out so I could "plan" it with DBF, or we'd end up at the Mexican joint. No way was I going to blow my cheat meal at a mexican joint!

Where to go? What to eat? It needed to be good enough to sustain me for another week and to reward myself for my clean eating this week. What could it be? Really! I had this much trouble figuring it out! But then it came to me; Bar-B-Q Chicken Nacho's from Bugaboo Creek Restaurant. I conveniently found a $5 off coupon to convince DBF to go there and off we went. Before we ordered however, they placed bread on the table. Now I'm not normally a big bread eater but tonight was a different story. I enjoyed bread w/butter slathered all over it. It was some type of brown bread so it could have been whole wheat but I really didn't care for a change. I would have eaten it if it had been white with purple polk-a-dots. It was my cheat meal after all.

Then came the nacho's. There was a huge plate of them covered in Bar-B-Q chicken, sauce and cheese. There was a cup of salsa and a cup of sour cream. Salsa! I eat that all the time but sour cream? Now, that's something worthy enough to be part of a cheat meal! So was the second cup of sour cream I asked for. Mmm...Mmm Good!

I boxed the remainder up and brought it home but I will trash it tomorrow. Although I should have left it at the restaurant, I just couldn't bring myself to do it. But tomorrow is not my cheat meal. Tomorrow it's back to clean eating so in the trash it goes.

But wait! I know what you're thinking; "she's forgotten about the ice cream!" Oh no, that ice cream is calling my name right this very minute! So please excuse me while I go enjoy every bite!