smkenne2’s BodyBlog

So after two months of hating working at Black Angus I decided I needed to get another job that actually paid.  I am so excited!  I got a job at Flemming’s Steakhouse and Wine Bar!!!!!!  I’m going to be gaining now, because of the 50% discount employees get and the free meals at 4:00 everyday.  Just thought I’d share the good news.  I am really excited to start working.  I don’t think I can resist the food though.  As long as it fits into my macros, it’s all good.

I just hiked Camelback Mountain this morning and I thought I would reward myself with a good cheat for doing that and eating clean this entire week. I went to Casino Arizona’s Eagle Buffet prepared to dominate the buffet.  And I did just that.  I thought I’d share with you an amazing cheat.

What I ate in an hour*:
1 blueberry muffin
1 oat muffin
2 slices of banana nut bread
2 pieces of bacon
2 pieces of sausage
1/2 plate of eggs
3 cheese blintzes with strawberry sauce
1 bowl of granola and yogurt
1 piece of french toast topped with strawberry sauce, white chocolate chips, and whipped cream
2 pieces of beef tenderloin with portebello mushrooms
1/4 plate of mashed potatoes
1/4 plate of corn
1/4 plate of rice pilaf
1 crabcake benedict
1/4 scalloped potatoes with cheese
1 piece of honeydew
1 piece of watermelon
1 cup of orange juice
1 slice of key lime pie
1 oatmeal cookie
1 peanut butter cookie
1 strawberry tart
1 bowl of ice cream with butterfinger, oreos, hot fudge sauce, and a fake cherry on top!

I’m dissapointed in myself. I didn’t get to eat any ham. I was so stuffed after. I haven’t eaten cheese in over a year. I haven’t had any form of bread/toast for over a couple months either. Now back to eating clean for the rest of the week.

*Forgot: 1 cinnamon roll

I finally dropped under 113!  This has been a huge accomplishment for me as I have been stuck at 113 for the past couple months.  I have actually wavered between 113 and 116 because I ate a lot when I went back to Cali for winter break, but now I am at 112!!!!!

Bad news though…I am already sick of cottage cheese.   Too salty.

So I’ve never really had cottage cheese before execpt for when I was little and it was only once so I really don’t remember what it tasted like.  The thought has always turned me off, because its little bumps of cheese or milk or something.  But I was at a nutrition store yesterday talking about my diet and unprocessed foods when the guy convinced me that I should really give it a try.  I went over to Fry’s and bought a little pint because I didn’t want to get too crazy if I didn’t like it.  It tasted interesting, it was wierd because it was a little too salty but milky.  I only had a couple of bites in the afternoon just to try it, but at the end of the night I was craving it.  I just wanted to have some with protein powder and a little bit of honey.  That 1/2 cup was a cottage cheese overload for me, but I woke up this morning craving it.  So I am going to try something new, and take the cottage cheese to school with me as a snack over my protein bar.  More protein and less carbs, what’s not to love?

So this weekend I decided that I needed a break because I was feeling burnt out from all of the school, work, and working out.  The time constraints have been getting to me.  I love structure, but at the same time I felt like I couldn’t enjoy things because I had to look at if I could do it between certain times.  I’m still doing that this weekend, but to a lesser extreme.  My fiance was out of town, so I was able to relax and have everything to myself.  I forgot how amazing it was to have the bed all to yourself!  I am happy to have him come back home, but having him gone this weekend helped me out.

Friday:  I did work out, so I didn’t do too bad.  I got to enjoy this day without school and went shopping for pork so I can make it in the slow cooker today.  So excited!!!  I ate really clean the whole day, kept it low on the fats and carbs.  But that was all for my cheat meal.  I went out to dinner to an Irish pub with my best friend who I haven’t seen in months due to work and school.  My meal was amazing, she kind of ruined it with all of her bitching about how what she ordered wasn’t what she wanted.  And even with all the efforts the waiter was making, it wasn’t good enough.  I tried to brush that off, but damn, that really put a damper on my cheat meal.  It was totally worth it in the end.  Eating about two desserts total.  Three if you count splitting a dessert between me and her.  A perfect cheat meal, shrimp cocktail, house salad, Guiness beef in a puff pastry pie, apple cobbler with ice cream, bread pudding, and cherry, peanut butter, and cookies and cream gelato.  Amazing!  I felt like puking the whole walk back to the car, but it felt so good to not think about calories, though I think I did keep it in the fat and carbs limit.  I might have gone a little overboard on the calories.  But it’s a cheat, so who cares?

Saturday: Didn’t work out.   I went shopping at  a fish market, bought what the man tried to tell me was tuna (I know it isn’t), scallops, and alligator meat!!! Again, I kept it clean the whole day.  That was until I was making a fruit salad for today to surprise my fiance in a good way.   I couldn’t help eat half the mango.  But again, still in my macros.

Sunday: Don’t plan on working out.  Need to get all of my homework done before picking up my fiance at the airport and going to work.  No sex before I go to work.   His flight gets in an hour before I have to start work.  But thats what the nights and fruit salad are for.    Eating clean today, so the carbs of the fruit won’t interfere with my diet.