Baby Shower Indulgence

It finally happened: after almost a full week of being sugar-free, I caved today at work. Truth be told, I don't think anyone could blame me if they saw most of what was being served at my manager's 8 am baby shower. That's right, I had to get up, on a SATURDAY, at 7 am to be at Oreganos Pizza Bistro at 8 am. Not only was my exhaustion making my willpower deteriorate, but I forgot to eat a little snack before I left the house, so by the time we were all lining up to eat at 8:45 I was famished.

Of course nobody at a Pizza Bistro is thinking about waistlines, and I'm 99% sure most of my female coworkers were born with superhuman metabolisms. There was tray after tray of homemade french toast the size of 2 football players' fists, buttery scrambled eggs, glistening bacon, fluffy biscuits, and creamy gravy. My mouth was watering before I put the first piece of french toast on my plate. I managed to avoid the bacon and biscuits (at first...I had some later, after work), and settled for a small scoop of eggs and a sole piece of french toast. It was as amazing as I thought it would be, and initially I had no regrets.

Until this happened.

And of course, I had to try just a little of everything (until I figured out how heavenly the white-chocolate covered caramel peanut delights were, then I casually had around 4 or 5 of those). Yeah, goodbye willpower. I attribute my weakness to several things:

1) Sociability and Unspoken Peer Pressure: I'll be damned if I was going to be the only one not enjoying the bountiful free goodness, and nobody wants to explain why they are the ONLY PERSON in the room not eating a piece of french toast, or running to try the desserts.

2) I Didn't Workout Before Work: Usually my workouts start my day off right, and motivate me to want to eat healthy the rest of the day

3) When I Get Hungry, I Get Desperate: No, really, I'll actually eat most of what's put in front of me when I'm hungry. I get unbelievably cranky and, until I'm fed, will have a perpetually one-track mind (food. food. food. food. food.)

4) I Love Sugar: This will always be a problem spot for me that I definitely need to learn how to get a handle on 

So there you have it, my first moment of weakness. I can't say it was a failure, however, because I learned a couple important things from this indulgence--the biggest being that I felt sluggish and unhappy the rest of the day. From now on, I'll be sure to take healthy snacks with me wherever I go, so I won't be put in this kind of situation again.

But for now, I'll simply move past the fact that I ate 3-days worth of calories in one morning. I still did my Insanity workout (tomorrow's my first "Off" day!) and ate some fruit when I got home, so let's pretend that balances things out. I will not regret the calories I've consumed; I will move on and, with the Lara's support and continual reminders that I'm only human, savor the memory of seeing my manager's face when she walked into the room filled with my coworkers and I--all there to celebrate her at 8 am on a Saturday morning.