Well, things were great until Andrew *begged* me to go to Yotality. (OK, ‘begged’ might be a bit strong, but for the record, I said no. And then relented.)

But let’s not let that misstep ruin the whole day.

Breakfast: Pesto eggs and bacon and sauerkraut.

Lunch: Salmon cakes (OMG SO GOOD!) and salad with half a small apple. I served it with a selection of completely non-Paleo condiments, none of which I used.

Mid-afternoon: The two interviews for the newspaper I scheduled turned out to take FOUR HOURS, so I was glad I grabbed a latte in between. On the way home (finally) at 6 p.m. I scarfed a Larabar in the car.

Dinner: I quickly pulled together the dinner I planned, despite not having the time I thought I’d have. Spaghetti squash bolognese, which Andrew just about died over.

As I was cleaning up the dishes, I was ready to go brush my teeth and end it for the night. And then Andrew called and said he wanted to take me to Yotality. I finally relented, thinking to myself that I’d get the tart flavor of yogurt (with probiotics–totally Paleo!) with some fruit.

I should have known better.

It was totally not Paleo, but it was delicious.

I have been a bad girl.

As usual, things started off well enough, despite rushing out the door at 7:15 a.m. to hit up Wegmans before getting to church early to set-up for First Step, the welcome breakfast I help with on a quarterly basis. I grabbed a blueberry Larabar and one of the homemade yogurts I made.

Not surprisingly, I was starving by 9:30 and wolfed down the egg bake and hashbrowns served at the breakfast at church. While the egg dish had bread and cheese, I didn’t feel like it was a total Paleo fail.

After perhaps one of our biggest bouts of miscommunication (Andrew thought I was meeting him at a local diner at 10:30 after First Step and before he went to the 11 service; I thought he was going to the 9:30 and then coming to find me in the First Step room after) in our entire marriage. Anyway, Andrew finally found me and we called church a wash and headed to the diner around 11.

By his point, I’d been up since 6ish; I was tired, full of eggs and meat and in a total fog. I didn’t know what I wanted to order,except that I did want to stick to something Paleo and light, but no eggs or meat. So, naturally, I ordered the pancakes.

They were walnut spice and drowning in syrup (at least for me) and I basically inhaled them. They might have been the best-tasting pancakes I’ve ever had. (Or maybe I’m just wheat-deprived.) I did feel a little badly for willfully choosing something forbidden, but they were SO good.

I didn’t eat again until after 6 p.m. after I’d done a yoga session at a local studio as a fundraiser for the co-op and an impromptu swim at the Y. Andrew rented me a movie yesterday, This Is Where I Leave You, and I’d been looking forward to watching it all day. I whipped up some tuna salad and added some fruit and air-popped popcorn covered with coconut oil spray and a little salt to eat while watching the movie.

I’m going to go ahead and say popcorn is OK, especially if it’s air-popped. I probably ate the equivalent of one large bag as I kept popping more and more…

As if eating my weight in popcorn (not sure what came over me), I then decided to go ahead and have something I’ve been wanting ever since I tried the salted caramel peanuts Andrew opened the other day:

Yup, pretty much the best way to eat them. Seriously. It was so worth the guilt.

I’m pretty sure that indulging in a little bit of sugar just leads me down a slippery slope on the weekends, since I seem to be fine during the week. I really am looking forward to getting back on the wagon tomorrow morning.

We were out late last night at a fancy fundraiser with friends and weren’t in bed until 1:30. Clearly, I wasn’t about to start a blog post. Five hours later I was up, coffee with half-and-half and maple syrup (decided to continue that) in hand, prepping breakfast before snowshoeing this morning.

So, to review…

Friday:

Breakfast: (coffee with h&h and maple syrup), half a sliced apple with almond butter, leftover cauli-rice and pesto eggs, ginger kombucha (it’s a fermented drink, instead of sauerkraut)

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Lunch: leftover bacon and pumpkin pancakes sprinkled with pecans and a drizzle of maple syrup; Andrew had two andouille sausages and leftover green beans

Afternoon snacks included a soymilk latte with half the flavor syrup (total Paleo fail; I asked for almond milk and they didn’t have it, and then it just ended up being way too sweet anyway) around 3:30 and then some veggies with cauliflower hummus mixed with avocado and a few almonds on our way downtown around 6:45

Dinner: I went into the event open-minded and alright with not sticking to the challenge depending on what was offered. Our friends took us first to Sea Bar for their beef-on-weck roll (cooked beef surrounded by rice and rolled in thinner beef topped with caraway seeds and salt and drizzled with a horseradish mayo–it was devine). At the event, I sampled multiple cheeses, had a small amount of macaroni and cheese, beef on weck (again, excellent) and a salad. I finished the evening with a giant piece of blueberry cheesecake. It was so yummy. Despite the splurges, I felt fine and didn’t feel like I overate, so, score one for me! There is no photographic evidence of my transgressions. And props to Andrew for attempting to avoid the bread…until he didn’t.

Saturday:

I feel like today was a roller coaster–both circumstantially and willfully.

Andrew and I had plans to snowshoe bright and early, so I got up early and made us a hearty breakfast of eggs, sweet potatoes and sausage. I had a little kombucha with mine.

After two hours of trekking through the woods, we were treated to a wonderful meal made by our friend and snowshoeing companion, a co-worker of Andrew’s. He and his wife had made us beef and barley soup, cornbread and brownie. None of it was Paleo, but it was all delicious 🙂

Later that afternoon–after a soak in the tub and a nap–I made us smoothies using my homemade yogurt, almond milk, protein powder and some fruits and veggies since we had ‘lunch’ at 10:45.

After spending some time with hadrian at the dog park, we visited the Nyes’ house, where bacon and nuts were waiting for us. But, before you think we were better than we were…there may have been some glazed nuts, chocolate covered pretzels and a handful of caramel popcorn involved. At least it wasn’t much.

At this point on a Saturday night, after debating about going to see a movie or stay in, we were DANGEROUSLY close to ordering a pizza (for real), but we rose to the occasion and I pulled off the meal I’d planned to have:

Roasted chicken with asparagus–fantastic! So glad we did that.

Afterward, we cleansed our palettes with clementines while starting our Redbox, A Walk Among the Tombstones. Odie jumped in the photo at the last minute!

We popped some popcorn mid-movie, which isn’t very Paleo, but maybe. If they had corn, couldn’t they have popped it?