I'm really not into sweets so when I posed the 21 Day No Junk Food Challenge this month for Empowered I really didn't think it'd be a real challenge for me. I like the occassional piece of milk chocolate after my afternoon coffee, the occassional bubble tea after lunch and the occassional cookie too but the amount of sweets I eat on a regular is limited to one every couple of days.
Today I decided to "enjoy" the birthday dinner I was at and so when the menu at the games room came around and I was asked if I wanted to order something, I skipped the desserts and went right to the milkshakes. It's not that I thought the milkshake would be healthier, I thought the opposite actually, but I wanted to try something different. Perhaps a part of me wanted to give into my sweet craving, get it out of my system, learn from it and then just move on.
Lesson definitely learned tonight and it was a hard lesson too.
Out came my milkshake in all it's glory and the waitress sat it in front of me. It was as tall as it was wide and you could smell the sugar sweetness of it. On the top of the milkshake was a plan shortbread cookie sticking out of a mountain of whip cream. I pulled off the cookie, dipped it back in the whip cream and began to eat it.
I finished the cookie and was more than done finish with the milkshake.
The cookie and the whip cream was an overdose of sugar and sweetness like nothing I had ever tasted before and I leaned forward in my seat with my arms wrapped around my stomach because I could feel it turning. My tummy was absolutely hating me at that moment and I hadn't even started the actual liquid part of my milkshake. I tried a bit, I'm kind of like a binge eater in that fact, but had to stop. It was either stop or risk seriously puking it all up right then and there all over the table. I thought about going to the bathroom but I couldn't move.
"You okay?", I was asked, "Do you need anything?"
Yeah, I need either a stomach pump or need to figure out how to go back in time and not order this!!!
I arrived home from the birthday party but was really suffering from a sugar overload and a stomach ache that was like nothing else. Consequently, I laid curled up in my bed hoping to die for the next couple of hours. It wasn't till about 4am till the storm in my tummy passed and I feel asleep.
Lesson learned... sweets are okay, one isn't going to hurt you but as long as it's an appropriate size. Everything in moderation is key but there was absolutely nothing moderate about that milkshake. Never ever again in a million years will I ever drink a milkshake.
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