What did I eat my first day off of the HCG diet?

Well let me tell you:

1 cup hot cocoa made with heavy cream, cacao, and sugar, with a splash of coconut rum and frangelico. Splurge!

Pad Thai from Sundeck … I ordered it just with veggies and shrimp (no noodles) but the peanut sauce and its inevitable accompanying sugar are a splurge.

1 bloody mary

A LOT of trail mix with cashews, pistachios, mulberries, goji berries, and golden raisins. Again, not a huge splurge except that the dried fruit is a lot of sugar.

Flavored almonds, coated in, you guessed it, sugar and various flavors. I ended up not liking most of the flavors, but those bags sitting around my house are going to do me no good.

Dinner was supposed to be a burger (no bun still) and sweet potato fries from Belly Up but it didn’t pan out because we would have had to pay cover, so instead I met a friend for a drink, where the waiter WAY overpoured my wine to the point where it was almost two glasses.

Then I had spaghetti squash, tomato sauce, and buffalo andouille sausage for dinner. No splurge there, but one of my fave meals.

After dinner I finally got to try these custom chocolate bars I had ordered a while back. The custom part was that I added nuts/peanut butter chips/etc to dark chocolate or semi-dark chocolate bases. They weren’t that good. I don’t know if it was that I don’t have the taste for sugar anymore or that they really weren’t that good, but I was disappointed. I will chop them up and use them in baking, but I haven’t done that yet either!

So there you go. I may be back on the (healthier) drinking wagon, but I am not giving up my starch- and sugar-free lifestyle. It’s just better.  I will go back to eating root veggies, and I will cut back on nuts.

But I am happy with my diet! (diet as in manner of eating as opposed to diet as in restricted food groups)