Before I get into that, I need to explain this: I'm currently involved in a 60 day challenge with a few other people to take our results up a notch. There are rules and prizes aside from the awesome results and while it's fun, it also makes you work. Being the crazy competitive person I am, I am all about doing my best to get to the end and win the prize. One of the rules of this challenge is that you get 3 cheats that you get a strike for. Just 3. And they have to be planned. You can't just go out and eat a tub of ice cream and be like, "Whoops, I cheated! Strike for me!!" I've already taken a strike when hubby and I took the kids out to a movie to celebrate us hitting a big promotion in our Herbalife business which essentially gave us a really nice raise. I love movie theater popcorn. It is all of the buttery goodness. And I get my popcorn buttered with proper butter and I get it layered. I pay for each layer, but as far as I am concerned, it is worth every penny. But I don't do it often because that's a huge indulgence and going to the movies is super expensive as it is without the crazy priced snacks.
Anyway!
Last night we took the time to go out for dinner for my birthday. I really wanted to go to Red Robin, a restaurant I haven't been to in ages. Red Robin has been kind of a special place to me. I've made lots of memories in one of their many restaurants with different friends and it's always been one of those places that has a special place in my heart. So I thought, "Why not go someplace that has been kind of iconic in my life to celebrate being 30?"
Being there was kinda strange. We don't eat out much. It's much faster, honestly, to eat at home. Plus I have control then about how things are made. Within the last couple years, I've discovered I can't have gluten as it affects a disorder I have, so I've had to cut it out completely and so what I would usually order off their menu was no longer an option as the 'clucks' are breaded and so I'm already having to make adjustments. And thanks to my pregnancy with my oldest, hamburgers aren't even appetizing, so that cuts off most of the menu there too. But the one thing I remember loving was the fries. Their steak cut fries were one of my favourite things, especially doused in their plum sauce.
So this is what I ordered yesterday for my birthday meal:
In true me fashion, I scarfed down the chicken and the veggies first. Because, well, the nutrition. I am so trained at this point to consume my protein and green veg before anything else. Plus, those things taste super good and I love them, so naturally the good stuff goes first. And I'd rather fill up on the good stuff then the simple carbs.
I'm not going to lie, the fries were yummy. Fried and seasoned with their special RR seasoning salt...Mmmmm.
But they were only yummy as I was eating them. After I sat for a bit once I was finished all I could feel in my stomach was the fried nastiness. Like my body was like, "Seriously? What the heck do you expect me to do with this? This is not fuel! Why are you putting this junk in here?" And it's the truth. There is a huge difference between feeding your body and fuelling your body.
Let's say you have a sports car. If you put regular gasoline into the tank, you might be happier with the lower cost, and the car will run, but it will be sluggish and wont function efficiently and you'll burn through way more gas and it will cost you so much more and your engine gets a gunky. But if you pay a bit more and put the premium fuel into the tank, the car drives like a dream. Everything in the engine fires exactly like it's supposed to, staying nice and clean, and you can go farther for longer and it's awesome. Your body is the same way. If you put the great clean nutritious foods into your body, you are fueling your body to work at it's most efficient and responds better. When you put the junk foods into your body, your body is just getting clogged up with grossness and while it's cheap and "tasty", in the long run it's not doing anything for you and it's making you sluggish. You want to know why you have such a hard time getting out of bed in the morning? Think about what you ate yesterday. I know that when my alarm went off this morning, I had to drag my arse out of bed. Most mornings this isn't that big of an issue for me. I used to have the hardest time getting out of bed every morning. I used to chalk it up to just not being a morning person. Now that I've got all these great foods and shakes and tablets to put into my body to ensure that I'm getting absolutely everything that my body needs to function, it is! And where I used to loathe leaving my bed because it just seemed to require too much effort, now I can almost bounce out of bed, ready to get the day going! It's something so simple and it's made a world of difference.
All in all, I'm definitely going to be thinking twice before I eat fries again! Because it definitely wasn't worth the "cheat".
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