Day 27: I Guess That's Why They Call It A Challenge

I am SO DONE with this thing.  I want pizza, cheese, milk, sugar, nachos with beef and cheese, cookies, cakes, pies, candy, cheeseburger with bacon and egg (the red eye burger at Spitfire Restaurant), carbonara, alfredo sauce, lasagna, ice cream, chocolate brownies, chocolate chip pancakes with whipped cream and strawberries, ham, scones, pastries, chocolate croissants, fried chicken, chicken teriyaki, lamb, BBQ anything, birthday cake with ice cream, milkshakes, bacon, sausage, cornbread with honey and butter, bread and butter, butter cookies, meat lover's pizza with extra cheese, french toast, and hot chocolate: all in one sitting.

Now that all of that is out of my system, you may have some sympathy with me for breaking down and having almond milk ice cream and cookies with my dinner today.  I am a day away from the end of week four and am feeling the next four weeks looming in front of me.  I kept thinking about Eragon (the kid who discovers the dragon egg and eventually turns into a vegan... well there is more to the plot than that, but it is the part I'm about to talk about), who learns to commune with nature and even though he is a die-hard meat eater, ends up being a vegan because he can feel the pain of the animals he eats... or something like that.  Yeah, that is not me.  I'm not a big meat eater, but I do enjoy it.  Currently, I'm missing meat and cheese something fierce. 

OK, so here is today's food list.  Breakfast was a nectarine, a bowl of cereal, and later a pear.  Lunch was Chinese food: mushroom soup (spicy and very tasty), an onion pancake, and vegetable fried rice noodles. The noodle dish was a bit bland.  I brought home the leftovers and will probably add ginger and garlic to them to serve next time. Around 5:30 I was snacky for something sweet, so I had a scoop of the almond milk ice cream.  It did not hit the spot and later I was sorry I had it.  Dinner was (finally) samosas!!!  We also had some naan and pakoras, but the star of the show was the samosa.  They were crispy on the outside and creamy mashed potato and green pea goodness on the inside, with a lovely spicy flavor.  Oh, it was good.

We had to go pick up dinner, as I do not yet know how to make samosas and pakoras, and we had a few minutes to kill before it was ready, so we popped into the grocery store to pick up a few things.  There was a cookie display right up front.  I skipped the big boxes of cookies, but I did grab a chocolate crinkle cookie and a chocolate chip cookie.  I split these with Brian (although, for full disclosure, I had 3/4 of the chocolate cookie and about 1/2 of the chocolate chip cookie).  They were really good, too. 

So, tomorrow ends week 4 and there are 4 weeks left to go.  I will not give up, even though I really want to.  Challenges are supposed to be, well... challenging.  Otherwise, they'd call them easies. And what is the point of that? Be healthy!