Day 30!!!!

Yes! I made it!  30 long days.  As you know, I'm going to stay strong until Sunday and then I'm going to have some fun.  Maybe I'll have some brunch.  Or perhaps, I will not eat breakfast and plan to eat at Mellow Mushroom for lunch. It's a tough call. Sunday is also my precious niece, Emma's birthday so I shall have cake!  Then, we are having a celebratory end of the diet cheat meat with the whole Paleo group at Pozole in Midtown.  It's a Mexican restaurant so it can't be bad.  If cheese is involved, it will be all good.  The bottom line is that on Sunday, I will not be paying attention to what goes in my mouth.  Then, on Monday, it's back to it.  And for the next week, my cheat day will be Friday.  Why you ask?  Because it's CAKE DAY!!  That's right.  I will strategically pick my cheat days.  Then maybe it will be date night and I can go to 2 Dog and have a glass of Pinot.  I know.  It's sad how much I'm looking forward to this.  The key will be eating clean until my cheat days.  I think it's doable, I really do.

Today was good.  I started out with my smoothie.  I definitely think I'll keep those in the menu rotation.  I had some almonds for snack and then the temptation began.  We took Anna and Mike out to Mellow Mushroom.  Mike (from Las Vegas) had never been to Mellow Mushroom!  I know, I know!  It's a sin for the Sin City resident.  So, of course we had to take him.  I resisted one more day.  I had a nice salad.  Then, Nova wanted to go to Gimme Some Suga bakery for cupcakes as if I hadn't already been through enough temptation. I went in and breathed in the sweet aroma....and left without a cupcake.  Surprisingly, I was ok.

Gimme Some Suga Bakery in Suwanee Town Center...Yummy!

I can't believe 30 days is over.  Thank you so much for reading, for supporting, for sending me advice.  You have been my biggest motivation.  Just knowing that I would have to come home each day and be honest with what I ate during the day has kept me going.  I mean, take tonight.  I am home alone on the last day of the challenge for me.  I technically could cheat and no one would know.  But I could not live with myself if I ate what I wanted and didn't tell you.  Thank you so much for being my accountability partner.  I will keep you posted now and again on how life after the challenge is going.  I'll definitely let you know all about Sunday.  I'll also let you know how I feel on Monday ;-) I don't think I'll go too overboard.  I'm still fearful of the scale creeping back up.

Until....