OK, weekend over, damage about as expected really. I'm probably not too far off my guilty weekend a couple of weeks ago, but the guilt isn't really there this time, kind of expected it this time around. I suppose in all fairness, guilt is the wrong feeling to have. Like I said previously, it took me a whole week to shake off that feeling, at any time I could have bottomed out and stopped the diet. Now I'm still on the diet, just had a bad couple of things, should be able just to move on from that.
OK, so Friday was my birthday, and early cheat day. Sausage, eggs, toast brekky, apple in the morning, massively sweet cake mid morning, chicken and chips for lunch, chinese meal out with wine, snacked on some crackers later that night with a couple of beers and bourbons. Nothing outrageous, but solid bad eating day.
Onto my non-cheat Saturday. It was a warm day, and we were having our first sort of "party" on Sunday, so heaps of house work, especially outside in warm weather. About half way through I signed a contract with myself to drink the last 2 beers still in the fridge from the night before. I had a green tea at this point, and enjoyed late afternoon watching kids running under sprinklers with the tea, not a bad thing. But as we came up to dinner, I did have the beer anyway, well deserved I thought. I had a glass of wine with dinner, and so far had only cheated on the single beer and was full from dinner. My wife had been baking a fancy cake, and there was bad stuff everywhere, but I was unmoved...until... I was washing up while she was putting kids to bed, and there was a excess chocolate icing in a bowl and I had a taste. It was so damn nice and was getting thrown out otherwise, so I had several more tastes. I call this cheating, because that was literally a chocolate bar by the time I said no more :) I stopped at that and had 2 more smaller red wines while watching a movie with the wife. I don't know, a beer and some chocolate. Not an outstanding failure, but not a perfect diet day for a week where I'm having 2 cheat days of sorts.
Sunday was already planned to be a bad lunch for diets, and it didn't disappoint. Good breakfast, tea mid morning, then 2 beers, chicken and salad (not really bad, but chicken is crumbed), cake and then I stopped... for a while. Had a really nice relaxing afternoon, perfect Sydney weather. I was having a great afternoon and decided to finish off the two premium beers left in the fridge after the lunch, and did so. Had the chicken and salad again for dinner, which again isn't really a cheat, it's just not 100% aligned with the diet. My cheat Sunday was drinking too much. I followed dinner with a couple of red wines, and 2.5 bourbons with water (poured 3, threw out half of one). This drinking is over a period of probably 7 hours mind you, so while I was "drunk", I was still in control and don't have a hangover today. I don't know, perfect Sydney weather, good atmosphere, just felt like a day to relax and enjoy.
So certainly not 100% to plan, but minimal damage overall I think. Today is back on the diet, and later in the week I have to make up my mind as to whether Friday is a cheat day or not, as there are two potentially diet unfriendly events on Friday, and nothing planned for Saturday as yet.
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