Date Night Experiment
So last night, hubby and I had a free night out. And by free I mean the baby was with her aunt, uncle and cousins for the night and we had a gift certificate for dinner.
I knew the day I started the diet that this dinner was going to have cheats in it.
It's not that I don't care...I care about my progress and this diet but I also know that some day I'm not going to be on phase 1 of this diet and I'm going to be able to eat other things again...and if it means I go out of ketosis and feel all cranky for a day well...ok. I need to do this experiment.
So I cheated. I had a little wine. I had a little calamari...(And when I say "little" I mean just that...no where near the serving I would normally eat but it passed my lips so it counts. My dinner was beef medallions and sauteed spinach and mushrooms and half of a grilled tomato. That was diet approved. And Ian got dessert, which I tasted. We had coffee. Then we went to the book store.
And then I spent the rest of the night bloated, gassy, uncomfortable....woke up feeling like I had been drinking all night. My fingers were swollen and my boots were tight...it is amazing what 6 weeks of not eating out can do. We were both feeling the same way. I could not wait to have my IP shake this morning and eat celery and drink a lot of water to get ride of this awful feeling.
So, might it impact the scale this week? Maybe. But I didn't do it to see what I could get away with (ch)eating. I did it because I wanted to see how I would feel and how my body would react to eating out and having a few little things. And I was right. I am much better off staying away from fried and salty and sugary things.
Fortunately I am feeling a little better after my shake this morning. We slept in, I had my shake and some water and I'm having some celery. I don't feel like I'm going through the first phases of the diet again so I must not have killed it too badly. But I have NO desire to do that again. It really is all mental. I realize now that I'm not really depriving myself of things I enjoy. I am saving myself from the discomfort and the things I used to eat that were all wrong for me!
I knew the day I started the diet that this dinner was going to have cheats in it.
It's not that I don't care...I care about my progress and this diet but I also know that some day I'm not going to be on phase 1 of this diet and I'm going to be able to eat other things again...and if it means I go out of ketosis and feel all cranky for a day well...ok. I need to do this experiment.
So I cheated. I had a little wine. I had a little calamari...(And when I say "little" I mean just that...no where near the serving I would normally eat but it passed my lips so it counts. My dinner was beef medallions and sauteed spinach and mushrooms and half of a grilled tomato. That was diet approved. And Ian got dessert, which I tasted. We had coffee. Then we went to the book store.
And then I spent the rest of the night bloated, gassy, uncomfortable....woke up feeling like I had been drinking all night. My fingers were swollen and my boots were tight...it is amazing what 6 weeks of not eating out can do. We were both feeling the same way. I could not wait to have my IP shake this morning and eat celery and drink a lot of water to get ride of this awful feeling.
So, might it impact the scale this week? Maybe. But I didn't do it to see what I could get away with (ch)eating. I did it because I wanted to see how I would feel and how my body would react to eating out and having a few little things. And I was right. I am much better off staying away from fried and salty and sugary things.
Fortunately I am feeling a little better after my shake this morning. We slept in, I had my shake and some water and I'm having some celery. I don't feel like I'm going through the first phases of the diet again so I must not have killed it too badly. But I have NO desire to do that again. It really is all mental. I realize now that I'm not really depriving myself of things I enjoy. I am saving myself from the discomfort and the things I used to eat that were all wrong for me!
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