The Bad Boy of Breads

Hey Everyone!

I hope you had an amazing Friday, I know I certainly did, let me tell you about all of the ridiculous things I ate. I have to be honest; I’m feeling particularly ill this morning so I’m thinking I may need to go a little easier next week, YIKES!

I don’t know what your usual breakfast looks like but on my diet I need to consume 30 grams of protein in the first 30 minutes of my day so I just suck down a protein shake with almond milk every morning, and I don’t mind it. but

So as you can imagine I’m usually ready to binge the second I wake up on my cheat day so I was thrilled to start my day with a piece of WHITE toast, a little butter and this amazing berry patch jam that I got at our local farmer’s market. It was to die for. I know what you’re thinking… White toast? Why not at least whole grain lady?

I’ll tell you why! I happen to think of white toast as the leather-jacket-wearing-hasn’t-shaved-in-a-while-bad-boy of breads! Plus, I’m on my cheat day people, why would I flirt with healthy and responsible?!

Ahhh swooon. He just looks so... Naughty J

At work our boss decided to provide us with a little treat for breakfast, so I had an Asiago cheese bagel with light cream cheese, a little organic granola, strawberries and grapes. Breakfast number 2 of my cheat day… Mmmmm.

Ok, so maybe the fruit was me trying to make up for my rendezvous with the rebel bread. J

Believe it or not, on Thursday another one of my bosses decided to host a “Hot Dog Days of Summer” lunch and provided hot dogs, chips, cookies, and other grilling out snacks for one last Hoo-Rah this summer. I couldn't participate due to the diet but I was so dying to sink my teeth into some of those treats….

So instead I just horded some of the cookies and chips in my desk and saved them for Friday! HA! And yes despite my two breakfasts, I ate these too. PS- this Dahl's cookies were So. Soft. (Even after spending the night in my desk drawer.)

I know I’ve mentioned my love of my employer before, well here is another thing that is amazing about them: They let a massage therapist come in periodically on Fridays and give 15 minute massages during people's breaks. Well today was one of those days and since I ate so much in the first part of the day I decided to dedicate my entire lunch break to Erica and take advantage of 2 timeslots for 30 minutes of heaven. At work. On a Friday afternoon!

I figured I’d make it without a lunch because our company also had Maggie Moo’s ice-cream brought in yesterday!

I. Know. Maggie Moo’s! I chose vanilla with cookie dough, heath bar, and snickers as my toppings! But I kept them separate because I don’t love mixing my toppings. I’d rather eat one at a time you see, I like organization, it bothers me to just mix all of my flavors up into each other. I can’t do it.

You'd think all of this before 5 would be enough for me... but no:

When I got home I realized there was Shullsburg havarti cheese in our fridge and Wheat Thins… ohmygosh I LOVE Havarti Cheese and wheat thins!!!! You better believe I polished those babies off. Unfortunately, it wasn't until I was done that I thought that might have been a little over kill.

Of course my husband who needs three solid square meals a day didn’t eat any of my cheese and crackers so he went out and got a pepperoni pizza from Little Caesars! … Aaaannnddd of course I participated there too.

Wooo: looking at all of this is making me feel kind of ill again, (I better go lay down.) But don’t worry I did maintain a smidgen of responsibility on my day off and I burned 1,000 calories on my treadmill last night!

I was pretty jazzed as I’ve never gone that high and I have got to say that the darn thing didn’t even acknowledge it for me! Apparently the little calories screen does not register more than 3 digits; so I went right from 999 calories to 000 calories. Ok, I know what I accomplished but it was still kind of a letdown.

Tell me about the one thing that you love to eat that you know has a better alternative? This is definitely white bread for me, because when I eat bread I don’t mind whole grains and I’ll usually choose it since it is healthier, but sometimes I just think there is nothing better that fluffy soft white bread.

So what’s your leather-jacket-wearing-hasn’t-shaved-in-a-while-bad-boy food?