Breakthrough

Hello friends!

Today, I am blogging from my home away from home: Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Beautiful town! Full of boudin balls, cracklins, and greasy looking people!

I come here pretty frequently for work--at least once a month and sometimes more.  The town has a pretty sweet hotel/casino/golf course thing going on, but otherwise, I am not sure why anyone would voluntarily vacation here.

All trash talking aside though, during one of my past work-travels to Lake Chuck, I discovered what may be my favorite food of all time: truffle mac n' cheese.  Specifically, the truffle mac n' cheese at Restaurant Ember at the L'auberge Du Lac Hotel and Casino Resort. 

This shit is like crack for fat girls.

This kid is my spirit animal.

Pre-diet blog, anytime I would come here for work, I would get myself, among other treats, a truffle mac n' cheese for dinner and then a second one to take to-go back to NOLA.

I know.

I'm awful.

So yesterday when I realized that my work would be taking me back to L'auberge for the first time since starting the blog, I entered into this strange depression/guilt/rationalization spiral that continued for the better part of the three hour drive to get here.

At first I was like, "Lake Charles!  My favorite mac n' cheese!"

And then I realized, "Oh wait a sec......I am back on a diet.  Motherf*cker!"

 

And then I was like, "Oh my god......I can't believe this part of my life is over. NO truffle mac?  Like....ever?!?"

But then I had an epiphany!   What if, instead of considering the mac n' cheese "cheating,"  I eat the mac n' cheese for dinner, cut back on lunch, exercise a little more this weekend, enjoy myself every once in a while, and just don't make a habit out of always eating the bad stuff?



I think they call this a mother*cking lifestyle change, playas!  

So by my calculations, I should be allowed to have another treat in about 2.5 weeks' time which coincides perfectly with a certain blogger's birthday. =)

Until next time!