Confession Time
I went off plan at the BBQ. Had WINE. Oops! And too much of it. Like 3 glasses. Also had an extra 2 oz of my "lean", no greens (there weren't any), two mozzarella balls, and about a slice of bread (torn off pieces - harder to estimate) with some creamy spinach dip. I was a bad girl. Had a tiny bit of a hangover this morning, but it's fading, and the MF Minestrone Soup is makin' my tummy feel better. Also, the BBQ was fairly early, and I still had 2 MF supplements to go for the day, but when I got home I just went straight to bed. Figured I'd just chalk it up as a bad day all around and start new today. I DID manage to avoid the desserts that were there... so that's good. And honestly, I don't think that the eating was THAT bad. For the most part I ate things in moderation compared to what I may have done in the past. Okay... the wine wasn't in moderation but I've certain had times where I drank MORE than that! I'm sure that the wine and the bread threw my body out of ketosis, and we'll see how the next three days go as I get back to that point.
Good news is that at no point did I feel like I was going to abandon MF for more than this one meal. I didn't think to myself, "okay, you blew this one... might as well just go to that drive-thru you've been thinking about all week since you blew it today!". I knew that I was going to limit my sins to that one evening at the BBQ.
I also felt like, "Hey, this wouldn't be so bad to do maintenance like this! I can do MF on some days, have a bit of a splurge, go right back on... " When I'm at goal 50lbs. from now, I can plan ahead for the BBQ, have a few totally MF days in preparation, and then a few after. I've been trying to get it through my brain that MF is going to be with me for life... I'm going to be like Nancy and regularly use the products when I'm at goal. And her rule of not eating poorly for two days in a row is a good one. It allows some splurges, but doesn't let you go hog wild and stray too far.
Other bad news. It only took me 2.5 weeks on MF to burn out the motor on my brand-spankin'-new smoothie machine that I got as a shower gift the weekend before I started MF! I need some good advice on a really powerful blender to make my shakes nice and thick (I guess I liked to use too much ice!). I was lovin' using that thing. Loved the shakes all blended up with tons of ice.
I need somethin' industrial strength!