Breakfast! Gone to the Dogs?

I was very happy the other day when I weighed less than 240! I thought I would celebrate by cooking myself a reward breakfast! My wife was gone somewhere as was my step-daughter so I started rummaging through the fridge. I found some home made chili, eggs, cheese and potatoes. I shredded a large potato and started some hash browns… if you have ever cooked hash browns, you know to cook it good – you need lots of oil.

As the hash-browns were cooking I started whipping up six eggs for the chili-cheese omelette I was making. When I was done I had a feast fit for a king! One thing though… this was ostensibly my reward for my diet and exercise over the last couple of weeks to get to this weight… did I really want to blow my diet and eat the feast? Yes! But, I was feeling kind of guilty so I brought my dogs out to the patio to help out!

The reward breakfast, maybe not such a good reward?

The tough thing about eating a reward meal, or day off a diet, is not the amount of calories you eat with the meal, but rather stopping and then going back to your diet and exercise plan!

The dogs were very happy to be invited to breakfast!

I resolved to make the best of it and ended up only eating a third of this feast (which was still about 1000 calories). Pigging out one day is not as bad as you think if you can stop the next day. It takes 3500 extra calories to gain a pound. Sure you will seemingly gain a couple of pounds (you have more food moving through your system) but it is not real weight.

Ahhh!… The chili-cheese omelette on toast!

The dogs were getting antsy for their share of the feast!

Rocky avoided my fingers while inhaling some omelette!

I was very thankful for the dogs as I had a case of the eyes (you know – when you see a bunch of food that you cannot eat).

Kiko helped out too.

The bad thing about eating a large meal is you end up getting hungry later. I was snacking all that day and even made a trip to Dunkin Doughnuts!

Tequila even help me out!

So I still have to admit that I end up getting hungrier after taking a day off. I would argue that you have to ‘fall off the wagon’ every once an a while to feel human.

Kiko and Rocky cleaning the big stuff.

Tequila polished off the crumbs!

Well I would like to leave you with some sage advice here but all I can really say is I will wait to do this again when I get under 230 pounds! If I go ‘off the wagon’ too many times – my diet and exercise program will not work.

Hang in there everyone. I hope you are having success with your diets. Everyone will have successes and days where you think you have failed… It is important to start the next day fresh!

The dogs are looking forward to 230!