Epic FAIL

Weight: 165
Workout: 30 minutes stationary bike
Food Diary:
Breakfast- multi grain cheerios with skim milk
Snack: 2 servings of Quakes
Lunch: Chicken Quesadilla with onions and green bell peppers
Snack: Tomatoes, Cucumbers and Feta in balsamic vinegar and oil
Snack 2: Strawberries
Dinner: Benihana's Hibachi chicken with fried rice, zucchini, shrimp, soup, salad, 2 glasses of red wine and birthday cake

The alarm going off and subsequent hitting of the snooze button should have been an indication of how your day was going to go. You set it for 5 am thinking you would squeeze a workout in before work since you had a birthday dinner to attend to that night. 30 minutes later, you only had thirty minutes to work out. You had hoped to run since you am training for the Buckhead Sizzler 10 k in September but your knee has really been bothering you so you settled for biking instead. Added bonus, you could sneak some reading into your day. Of course, the calories burned on that are practically non-existent but the point is you did something.

YOU WERE HUNGRY ALL DAMN DAY.

By 8:30am you were jonesing for something, anything. You busted out the bag of Quakes which your lazy ass failed to separate after saying you would and ate about 2 servings of delicious caramel rice cakes. You chugged some water. By 10:30 am, you were hungry again. Obviously, you need to work on figuring out which foods are both healthy and filling but you guess that is the point of this whole thing- to learn healthy habits and incorporate them into your life (added bonus- you get a good laugh). At 11 am your boss comes around saying they are buying lunch. Now, you are too broke to turn down a free lunch so you are on board no matter what it is. Which is, of course, Mexican food. Without a menu or nutrition label to guide you, you just pick something you know you'll like- a chicken quesadilla. Which turned out to be smaller than you thought. After eating that, you felt full and thought FINALLY.

YOUR RELIEF WAS SHORTLIVED.

By 2 pm, you are home and STARVING. By 3 pm, you are insisting to yourself that you have to eat something. You should listen to your body...even when its screaming at you to stuff your face with sweets? Okay, you should listen to your body, respect its opinion and then eat what you know is best for you (kind of like what a husband does to his wife). So you tackled some of your delicious tomatoes and cucumbers mix and threw some feta cheese into it. You actually devoured it and for an hour felt satiated. But hunger won out again. This time you hit the fridge for some strawberries. Two days into the week and you are already out of fruit and almost out of veggies. And broke. Jeez eating is costly.

And then came BENIHANA'S.

You tried to be good, promise. You even went so far as to look up Benihana's to see if you could find nutrition information. Turns out they are the one restaurant that does not provide this information. After failing at that research, you googled them to see if ANYONE has anything remotely like their nutrition information (they don't). Finally, you chose your meal based on cost. Jesus, 17 bucks for chicken? He didn't even do a smoking volcano! And of course, after having two glasses of red wine with your friends, you were so hungry you forgot your vow to only eat half of what was on your plate. In fact, you kept thinking, 'man these are incredibly small portions!' To top it off, it was a birthday party so of course you had cake.

Well, folks, EPIC FAIL. You suppose we will call that your cheat day. Sucks it was so early in the week!