The most epic, out of control cheat meal, and CHICKEN & WAFFLES. Yeah.

Lately, my cheat meals have been steak, veggies and a sweet potato.  We love the new grill and have been taking every opportunity to use it.  I usually have a Quest bar or a container of Arctic Zero or banana soft serve depending on a) my mood and b) how my week went (do I need more carbs, or was it a bad week?).  Well, last night my boyfriend looks at me and says, "you know what I want?  A Blizzard." As in, from Dairy Queen.  If memory serves me, I haven't had something like that in well over 10 years.  Before the fitness obsession, I was vegan, and before that I was fat-phobic in a big way.  So, yeah, it has been a good 10+years since I've had something like that.  My week had been ok but for some reason, maybe because it's finally feeling like summer around here, I was like, "yeah, this is gonna happen" and immediately pulled up their website.  Still wanted to have an idea of the nutritional content... lack there of... OH MY GOD.  So freaking bad.  Like, way above and beyond the kind of cheat meal that I need right now, holding at a slightly higher than optimal body fat %, but I found one that I could deal with, mentally.  So, yeah, last night I had a Strawberry Cheesecake Blizzard and it was freaking awesome.  No regrets.  Had a great leg day today, totally burned out my hammies & still managed to suffer through cardio.  With cardio 4 days a week, on a split with 3 leg days, it pretty much is inevitable that I have cardio on a leg day every now and then and IT SUCKS.  But I survived, and then made this:

Chicken and Waffles

I posted a picture of this on Instagram earlier with the following caption: ...file this under #soundsgrosstastesgreat.  Or something along those lines.  It sounds kinda, um, gross? but I love it.  I've made it two ways; this was how I had my sweet potato last night & I had the above for lunch today.  I like today's better, I used mashed sweet potato as opposed to the grated sweet potato I used last night.  The waffle recipe is based on this one, from the Fit Men Cook website.  I omitted the whole egg, because I keep fat as low as I can for meals 2-4, especially on cheat day. The chicken and the rest were inspired by this recipe, but I mean loosely-based-on... basically, I used a mild horseradish mustard and then topped it with sugar free maple syrup, but I got the idea for that combo on the Allrecipes site.  And now it's all I want to eat.  I'm falling in love with the waffle iron, all over again.

Have a great week!