Day 68: Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I am a big. fat. cheater. No, no, not in the relationship sense, but in my relationship with food. I told myself LAST weekend that THIS week I wasn't going to allow myself a cheat day. I was going to work out hard core and not go over my calories once. And then there was today. Today we received some pretty crappy news at work.... and when you receive crappy news, there are only 2 options: eat or eat & drink. Five of us work girls went out to lunch. Soup, salad, and breadsticks. Sounds harmless enough, but I knew better. I had recently looked at the calorie count for such things and knew that consuming the trifecta would blow my calories for the day, let alone lunch. So I only ordered soup. And I only had one bowl. And one breadstick. And 2 olives. And one more breadstick. And a few more olives. And one more breadstick. And 1 1/2 Andes mints to finish it off. Wooooooooooonderful.......... This left me with around 550 calories left for dinner. Ok, no problem. i could do this. Until it was 8pm and we hadn't eaten dinner yet. We went to Fresh Fish Company, which again sounded harmless enough. They even go as far as to list the calorie count next to some of the healthier options! Yesssss! Except that ALL the food I consumed didn't have calories listed. And you know that when calories aren't listed, much as when prices aren't listed, that it isn't going to be a low number. By this point, I had consumed the ENTIRE loaf of sourdough bread that they brought to the table. Crap. That was at least the 550 I had left and I hadn't even ordered yet. Aaaaaaaaand with that, it was officially a cheat day. We skipped the creme brulee even though it looked fantastic, but somehow (and I wasn't driving or ordering so you can't blame me...............) I ended up with an ice cream cone from McDonalds in my hand 30 minutes later. Well, it would be SUCH a shame to let it go to waste....... There go all my good intentions for the day and possibly for the week. And just when I officially reached 20 lbs on the naked scale. Dammit.
68 days down...112 to go!