Pumpkin Pancakes and Bacon with a Side of OMG!

Day 16

Free Day. I woke up this morning not feeling great but excited at the prospect of heading to Mimi's Restaurant for some Pumpkin Pancakes. I'd never eaten there for breakfast and I'd been scoping out the website for days.

At first I was horrified because the Pumpkin Pancakes came with Pancakes topped with caramel apples, bacon AND 2 eggs! There's no way I could stomach all of that. I don't care if IT IS free day. So, I ordered a mimosa, the pancakes with no topping and a side of bacon. I LOVE bacon about as much as I love butter.

The pancakes were delicious. The bacon divine. I'll admit that I ate all 4 pieces of mine and one of Tony's for a total of 5. I ate two pancakes (there were SIX!) And, the Mimosa was also very yummy. But, I couldn't shake the fact that I just didn't feel well at all.

By the time we got home, I had decided that I needed to lie down for a little bit. This turned into 4 hours. About 2 hours into my long winter's nap, I was jolted awake by the uncontrollable urge to purge (sorry TMI ... I know). My yummy decadent free day breakfast that was so awesome going down was NOT so awesome in its coming back to haunt me.

I don't know if it was the fact that I already didn't feel well (and still don't) OR the fact that I've had neither butter nor bacon since Christmas OR the fact that I had a mimosa with breakfast OR a disasterous convergence of all three culminating in my gastric distress.

Whatever the reason, my free day has not been everything I dreamed it would be. This wonderfully indulgent feast was not worth the ultimate price i paid for it. I still don't feel well and it could be the beginnings of a cold that has been going around.

Adversity is the true test of a person's resolve. If it is a cold, I'll battle my way through it and I won't use it as an excuse to backslide into old behaviors. Either way, I'll get up tomorrow and resume my clean eating and instense exercising because that's what it takes to achieve what I've set out to do. Stick with me if I complain my way through it.

Cheers!
Margaret