Food Cravings

I don't think my food cravings are really bad....yet. I'm sure they will become awful especially when I get close to contest. ESPECIALLY when I am in the last 6 weeks and I can't have a cheat meal at all! Right now on Saturdays I'm eating 2200 calories...650 of which can be cheat food. I realized that 650 calories is really nothing in terms of good food. I can't get dessert at any restaurant and meet that 650 calorie limit. Unless I only eat like 1/4 of the dessert they bring...and who is going to do that?

So, my plan is to always buy my own dessert or make it so I know exactly what is in it. Today I am going to be able to pull off eating my low fat peanut butter cookies (like 3 of them) with 1.5 cups of Dreyer's Slow Churned Light ice cream. That is 650 calories. I just got back from Outback and had a 6oz steak with veggies and half a plain baked potato. I found out Outback's nutritional info is on the web, so I was able to successfully calculate all of it out and it is about 600 calories for that meal too. Now I'm stuffed and I can't eat dessert quite yet...so I guess I'll have to do some tricks to get in my protein with my dessert since I need to do that for my glucose levels. I'm thinking a scoop of protein powder chugged right before I cheat. Oh, excuse me "reward" myself since Nathan says I shouldn't use the word cheat about food.

In the meantime, I have been thinking about what "real" food (or junk rather, let's just be honest pretty much anything that is good really is crap for my body) I would like to eat after this show is done with. I have a little list going that I think I will have to choose from when we have our post-show celebration on October 24th. In order below, is what my top picks would have to be:

1. Tied for number 1 spot is a bottle of Gallo White Zin and a plate of Nachos from Taco Cabana
2. pizza. Preferably Domino's with jalepeno and pepperoni, dipped in ranch dressing
3. Chocolate Cake. Maybe with ganache.
4. Reese's peanut butter cups
5. One of those penguin cupcakes that Kim made for Luke's 2 year birthday party a year ago...it had a donut hole for a head and chocolate frosting. Maybe it's just the donut hole I loved so much
6. A chocolate frosted donut
7. starburst
8. a frozen margarita
9. Michelob Ultra pomegranate raspberry beer - at least 2 or 3
10. chips and queso

This is 15 weeks out. So I think it will be interesting to see what happens over time and how this list changes. As you can tell, I can't stop thinking about sugar, and a lot of my list involves that.

I plan on bringing the Gallo to my show and popping it open after I am done, that night. Somebody better find the nachos at Taco Cabana and bring them to me. Don't worry, I'll take a photo of myself in suit, tanned and all, with my wine glass and nachos in hand.