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.
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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!
