The animal crackers talk to me....

And this is why I have one cheat meal a week!!!!

The weekly cheat meal, for me, helps to keep me on track. You see, these darn animal crackers have been talking to me from their cabinet in the kitchen...."eat me, eat me, come on a few won't hurt, who will know...." I have abstained, by avoiding that particular cabinet, by remembering the results I have achieved and by remembering the example I set for others even though they may not be peering into my kitchen window. But mainly because I know that Friday is a couple days away and I can have those animal crackers THEN. Will I be thrilled come Friday?! OH YES!!! Will I feel icky when I'm done eating them? Probably. But that feeling of ickiness gets me through another week because it reminds me of all the reasons that I do eat clean. The main reason being that it makes me feel good!!!

I don't believe in deprivation. You only live once. However, I do believe in moderation. And I think if you eat clean 6 days a week, then there is nothing wrong with one cheat meal on that seventh day.

I guess it would be just as easy to throw the darn bag of animal crackers away so their little voices wouldn't taunt me, but then I wouldn't have anything to blog about would I?

Friday...two days away!!! :)