Let Me Explain

When I blog I'm basically carrying on a phone conversation in my head with my sisters, which Chris likes a lot better than actual phone conversations with my sisters. Even as I typed that, Chris shook his head, muttered something, and walked away. I forget that some of you don't have a clue what imaginary conversation you're listening to and I'm sure you usually don't care, but I did get an email about what cheat day is, or actually, what a non-cheat day is so, for those who care, read on.





We loosely follow the Body for Life Diet. My friends/Visiting teachers gave me the cookbook for my birthday a while back. Almost two years ago, I think. We've used it to loose baby weight a few times now.





Sunday through Thursday (supposedly) exercise first thing in the morning. Before anything else. NO, first we drink a big glass of water to rehydrate, then we go on our uphill walk.



We eat every few hours. Always a protein and a carb. Nothing too high in fat or calories, but lowish carbs are definitely our main focus. We cut out white carbs (white potatoes, bread, rice)
long ago. We use these tortillas we can only find at Walmart that only have 50 calories each and they taste...not EXACTLY like poop. You get used to them. Red potatoes, if any. Brown rice. I hate brown rice.



Every single morning we have a half cup of light yogurt with a half cup of fat free cottage cheese. I imagine in my head that I'm having those Dippin' Dots at the mall. I've never actually HAD Dippin Dots, which probably helps the fantasy. Snack is maybe a string cheese (protein) and an apple (carb). Or some almonds and a 1 pound bag of M&Ms. Dinner is almost always a meat and steamed veggie something and salad (with really light dressing, Berensteins makes this super yummy garlic cheese Italian one that's only 20 calories per serving) Wednesday nights we have pancakes with peanut butter (only adam's all natural or something with ONLY peanuts. no sugar or garbage) and sugar free syrup. Again, you get used to it. I swear.



OH, and nothing to eat after dinner. Just water. Lots of water all day. And supposedly no caffeine. I don't count the sips I take of handsome partner's diet cherry Pepsi. I never, ever pour one for myself. For reals, I don't. Obviously no real soda or juice or sugary beverages.



After a dreadfully long week we make it until Thursday before we start having BAD cravings. What gets us through, every time, is knowing that Saturday, blessed beautiful Saturday, we get to eat anything we want. ANYTHING. This is why we do our shopping on Friday. I can't have the cheat stuff in my house, or as you may have noticed, I eat it all. All at once.



On Saturday (or whatever day we picked, we just chose Saturday) we eat cinnamon rolls for breakfast, i eat candy all day, fries with ranch for lunch, then we get sick. By dinner time. We usually pull through by bed time and top it off by splitting a gallon of ice cream. It's glorious. Not so much later that night, when your in serious gastrointestinal pain and can't sleep. That never stops me.



What's really cool is the weeks when we don't diet at all but still fully embrace cheat day. It would feel wrong not to. It's not cheat day's fault that we didn't diet that week. Why punish it? Plus, we don't get as sick those Saturdays because our bodies are more accustomed to all the crap. So that's a nice little bonus.



When we're on top of it we loose a pound or two every week. We weigh every day. Sunday morning we're always back up, but you figure out after a while that those cheat day gains always come back off before Tuesday. The Body for Life dude says that your metabolism needs to get that cheat day or it will try to compensate or something bad like that.



Beck has tried the plan, but she's so not able to embrace cheat day. She's a wussy. She would just eat the cinnamon roll and call it good. For the WHOLE day. Lame. Never cheat with her. Cheat with me, it's way better while it's happening. Not so much later, but who cares about later? Wait a minute, is that like one of those metaphor things about my life? Never mind.



That's the cheat day deal. Any questions?