Last night my family and I went out to eat to celebrate my parents’ anniversary…20 years!  I haven’t eaten out much since I’ve been eating clean so I was a little apprehensive but just thought I’d try and do the best I could.


I somehow managed to forget to take a pic of my meal, I really don’t know why since I take pics of EVERYTHING.  But, my sister and I ordered the twin lobster tails (no butter) and I ordered a side of PLAIN broccoli with a salad…not bad, right?


Don’t get too proud of me…that’s what I ordered.  This is what I ate: the lobster (which was not that great), some of the broccoli b/c it was still kinda hard and I like it steamed more, a few bites of the salad (I usually don’t eat dressing on my salads and forgot to ask for no dressing and it was waaayyyyy too strong) one of my husband’s wings, a bite of my brother’s lobster mac & cheese (soooo greasy), two bites of my Mom’s crab cakes (they were eh) and wayyyyyyy too many of my son’s sweet potato fries.  I mean, seriously, these things are like freaking crack.  It wasn’t my fault…I don’t understand what the heck happened…they just kept falling into my mouth and I didn’t want to spit them out.   That would be wasteful.  


I did only order one cocktail.  A medium vodka and water, to which I added my True Lemon Raspberry Lemonade mix (not the whole packet) and drank most of that.


But I was a little shocked at how so many of my tastes seemed to have changed.  A couple of months ago, I would have eaten half my body weight in lobster mac & cheese.  Now I was just really put off by the taste of the grease…


So, eating clean at dinner last night:  great, big, fat FAIL!  


I often get asked if I have “cheat” days.  Ironically last night when I got home I saw a post on James Wilson’s FB talking about not using the word cheating.  I love this idea because I hate that word.  To me, the word “cheating” has such a negative connotation and I also think it implies that one is on a diet in the first place.  I am NOT on a diet.  This is just how I eat.  Do I eat other stuff, “unclean” stuff sometimes.  Yeah, of course.  But 99% of the time I eat clean.  I love it.  It makes me feel great.  That’s really all there is to it.  I don’t plan to “cheat”…if it happens, it happens.  I don’t beat myself up over it.  I push myself a little harder in my next workout and move on.


However, I wasn’t feeling so hot this morning.  I’m convinced that my stomach is no longer a fan of “unclean” food.  My taste buds?  Yup, still like it (most of it), but my stomach?  Negative on that one.  I swear that every time I eat “normal” food I feel sick the next day. I often get headaches too.  Bad ones.  Although thankfully, I didn’t last night.


If you’re a clean eater, I would really love to hear your input on this because I’m not sure if my body is truly rejecting this food or if I’m just insane (which is a definite possibility).  Please leave a comment here or on the Facebook page.  I talked about this a little bit on there this morning also www.facebook.com/mymissionimpossible.