Of Course.

So, I've been so positive about my whole diet and exercise thing, it was certain that something was going to come and slap me in the face. And here it is.

Starting Saturday and ending next Friday, it is Restaurant Week in Charlotte. What this means is that a slew of (normally expensive) restaurants around the city have put together special 3-4 course menus which will cost $30/person for dinner all week. A lot of them sound awesome. I've already made a reservation at Melting Pot for me and Blake and Susan and Chris because Susan and I have never been there and there's no way I won't love melted cheese and chocolate. Blake and I are also considering going on a date somewhere else (Ruth's Chris or M5 probably). It's not too often that you get to eat super expensive meals for $30/person. And as an avid foodie, I'm stoked.

Our Melting Pot excursion is next Thursday, so I need to be super good about eating and working out until then. I even thought to make the reservation at 7:15 so that I would have ample time to work out after work before eating. I need to go on the defensive before I fill my stomach with cheesy goodness.

Of course I also have training for work twice this week, which comes with catered lunch. Today, fortunately, it was Brixx's pizza and there was no dessert to speak of. There was also no salad. So I had the carrots and spinach salad that I brought for lunch and then two slices (they're really small personal pizzas) of vegetable pizza. At least I'm getting my veggies in. I have no idea what's on the menu tomorrow, but we've already gotten an email about there being both breakfast and lunch provided. I'm going to try my hardest to avoid the breakfast situation all together...because I love breakfast buffets way too much to get out of there with anything that would be considered even remotely healthy. I'm going to bring myself another salad tomorrow just in case. This healthy eating thing is harder than it looks.