If you're going to cheat, you may as well make it worth getting caught for... right?! Exactly.
So, on that note, I had my last meal of 2018 be a strong, dirty cheat meal -- chicken wings and then mud pie. In all honestly though, I didn't actually know what mud pie was. All I read was "pie". So when it came out to my table, I was super surprised to note that it was over a pint of ice cream and about a billion, zillion calories. But I ate it. I didn't exactly finish it but I came pretty close to it.
Last meal of 2018, yeah, definitely a dirty one.
The plan is to do a 20 hour fast tomorrow; restart my eating schedule.
I'm not going to continue eating keto, I did that only in prep of my fight, but I will definitely continue my intermittent fasting. 16 hours of fasting followed by an 8 hour eating window. I didn't think my body would adjust to it well and I definitely didn't think that I'd be able to start my morning off with no breakfast or box on an empty stomach, but I was very pleasantly surprised. I got to sleep in a little longer because I was no longer eating breakfast and my body worked really well with just eating during that 8 hour eating window. Don't get me wrong, when I came home after boxing, I was hungry and if I ever ate that meal late I became more hangry than usual, but my energy levels going into boxing with an empty stomach was really no different.
Anyways, back to today, eating dirty. I ended 2018 with a belly full of dirty, delish food but I had definitely got it out of my system. I eat really clean as it is but I felt like today all my cravings were fed and, you know what, I didn't feel guilty about it at all. That's the thing, I usually do feel guilty when I cheat on my clean eating. Being that I'm a professional athlete and a boxing coach, I really try to live by example as well as keep myself in check, but with me having dropped 20lbs in two weeks for my fight, I felt I was more than deserving of a break. Today, I enjoyed that break.
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