TO CHEAT OR NOT TO CHEAT . . .

Today we went to the beach. One of the caveats of living in Orange County, CA. Thankful that there is Huntington Dog Beach. You should see it if you haven't. Doggie heaven!! Today was beautiful!! Our pup Belle had such an amazing time swimming after her toy after it had been hurled into the ocean. She also enjoyed being herded by a very friendly border collie. Dogs everywhere!

Anyway, I got to sunbathe, build a sand castle ( if you can call it that!) with my daughter and read my Oxygen magazine. Yeah, I was reading about clean eating and various new exercises. My tummy started to rumble. Thankfully, I brought along some water, almonds, bananas and raisins. Then hubby comes along and asks if we should go find somewhere to eat. All of a sudden clean eating went out the window!! Found myself an hour later engulfing a veggie wrap and caesar salad and Ihubs had a nice healthy salad. Clean eating?? Not so much. While it tasted great, the amount of oil dripping from the wrap was my fat percentage for the week.

Cheat meals are allowed, I remind myself. I was just expecting this one to be healthy and got super fooled. Ah, well. They are ok because the rest of the time, you are treating yourself to all the abundance of healthy choices you have made for yourself. Or SHOULD be. :-)

Cheat meals keep you on track. They give you something to look forward to. A pay off, so to speak.  Mind you, I said cheat MEALS and not cheat DAY! That second one can throw you off course unless you have will power. I say, have one to two cheat meals a week. On different days. The next day, you should be thinking of doing heavy lifting on a large body part. Or a lagging one that you need to train heavy to build up. The extra calories from that yummy meal will actually be put to good use. Well, at least, it's working for me.
My cheat meal is usually on a Sunday. Monday, I train my Back and I go pretty heavy. It is a lagging part, so I put it first in the week when I am fresh.

Well, better git! Gotta plan the attack on my Back for tomorrow morning.

Out :-)