Originally Posted by
gbrice75
So, I had a crappy weekend. My in-laws took my son overnight and my wife and I have had this $100 gift card to The Salt Creek Grill (a high-ish end restaurant) for a while now. We decided to take advantage of the 'night off' and went.
I purposely ate light yesterday knowing we'd be going, but I have no doubt I ate roughly 5000 calories during that meal. The drinks alone (a few beers, a few margaritas) were probably 1000 cals. We had an appetizer - crostini w/ warm goat cheese/ herbs and marinara, then shared a salad - greens w/ anjou pears, phyllo wrapped goat cheese (can you tell I love goat cheese? lol), glazed walnuts, etc. For an entree, I had coffee crusted NY Strip (had to be a good 12oz or so) w/ a side of mashed potatoes (which were loaded with butter), and finally, to add insult to injury, we finished the night with a chocolate ganache souffle. Yep... a lil' overboard.
Basically, I started my carb up 12 hours early. I'm not TOO concerned about that, but I wish I had gone without the souffle, and probably the appetizer as well. Of course today, I feel I've thrown away 2 weeks of progress (rationally I know that's not true, but you know what a mindfvck this shit can be) and am freaking. At least all this came after 3 days of carb depletion. I can't think of a better time. It's safe to assume at least some portion of all that crap simply worked to restore glycogen. Hopefully the 'spill-over' into fat cells was minimal. At the end of the day, it was a single meal... a cheat meal if you will. Some people plan 1 a week. I didn't, just had a card burning a hole in my pocket.
Just gotta jump back on and work even harder this week to continue progress. One thing that I've learned about having a bad day with food is that you cannot let it be an excuse to continue to cheat. Nark told me once that cheating begets cheating - and he's SO right. You have to nip it in the bud and pick yourself right back up, carry on like it didn't even happen.
G'nite all! Starting phase 2 tomorrow, as I mentioned in a previous post, my favorite phase of the 6. I'll enjoy this week. :)