Cheating is Healthy

Okay...so this might sound like a way to excuse my "bad behavior" today, but I believe when it comes to food, cheating is healthy.

If you have been very regime with your diet plan, having a cookie or an all fat item - like macaroni and cheese - is not going to break you.

I will come clean and share that I had a Starbucks Tall Mocha Cookie Crumble w/ the Chocolate Whip. I know, all those words in that title just scream WRONG! But I really wanted it. I had it in my mind that I wanted one. I really wanted to get it when Starbucks was doing their Frap Happy Hour last week, but I missed that. I just looked it up on MFP and this is the damage:

May 17, 2013

FOODS	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Cholest	Sodium	Sugars	Fiber
Morning Snack
Strawberries - Raw, 4 medium (1-1/4" dia)	15	4g	0g	0g	0mg	0mg	2g	1g
Costco - White Hard Boiled Egg, 1 egg	70	0g	5g	7g	210mg	80mg	0g	0g
Sargento Snacks - String Cheese Part Skim Mozzarella Cheese Sticks, 1 stick	80	1g	6g	8g	15mg	210mg	0g	0g
Lunch
In General Salmon Sushi - 1 oz. Farmed Fish on A Bed of White Rice, 1 piece	56	8g	2g	3g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g
Sushi - 1 Stick Immitation Crab, 1 Stick	15	2g	0g	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g
Sushi - California Roll, 8 piece	150	8g	2g	2g	1mg	100mg	2g	0g
Sushi - Nigiri - Tuna - Plain, 1 piece	37	4g	1g	1g	0mg	1mg	0g	0g
Moshi Sushi - Nigiri Salmon, 1 piece	64	9g	1g	5g	8mg	29mg	1g	0g
Generic - Sushi - Nigiri Shrimp, 1 piece - 1.25 oz	68	11g	1g	8g	0mg	30mg	0g	1g
Afternoon Snack
Starbucks - Tall Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccino Whole Milk With Whip, 1 Tall Size 12oz.	340	52g	14g	5g	40mg	180mg	48g	1g
TOTAL:	895	99g	32g	39g	274mg	630mg	53g	3g

And with a 1200 calorie a day allowance, yeah, it looks like I have ruined my whole day.

Not necessarily...

Let us look at the positives. And when I talk about the positives, it is thinking and remembering back to what I would have ordered before pre-healthy living.

• I visit Starbucks about once a season, so I do not go to Starbucks every day. (No offense if you do.)
• My normal order at Starbucks is the Grande Mocha Light Frap (130 calories)
• I got a Tall - not a Grande. Back in the day, if I thought I was really hungry and deserved a good treat, I would have easily polished off a Venti and had an additional afternoon snack. 
• I did not finish my drink, but I left the full amount of calories on MFP. 

Looking at my day so far, this choice might not have been soooo bad if I hadn't had such a big lunch. (I heart sushi.) It's looking at something that was so bad and turning it into something good, so I don't become my worst critic of how I should not bought that item, and that I am going to gain weight, and I am a failure, and blah blah blah. One full calorie frap is not going to ruin all my successes up to this point. 

One note that I do want to make that - AND I AM NOT AN EXPERT - but from experience, I would not cheat in the first month of starting a healthy lifestyle. Within that month, your body is adjusting to the healthier food and eating schedule and introducing the old food only make the adjustment to a healthier lifestyle even harder. It might even stop you from continuing. 

Oh...and by the way, the drink was okay. I was expecting it to be thicker, almost more like a milkshake with cookie crumble, and it just left me kind of eh.