Crashing and Burning

So, I lasted 17 days on the ol' vegan diet. And I went down in a blaze of delicious glory when I stepped into Smashburger last week. Here's my play by play on how I went down:

• Loving hubs is away on business and vows to do his best to keep up with the diet but makes no promises.

• Day two of loving hubs on business....he calls and says he had fish. We were supposed to be off fish that day.

• Game over. I win the competition.

• I do the "I won, I won, I won Dance" to myself since no one is home to see it.

• We still have 13 more days to go to complete the book in its entirety and I vow to continue on.

• The convenience of Target, the bank and Petsmart in the same shopping center lure me to that part of town.

• After finishing my errands, I spot Smashburger across from Petsmart, smiling longingly back at me.

• I pull into its parking lot. I sit in the car for about 15 minutes debating with myself: Technically I have won the competition. But technically we did not complete the diet.

• I text loving hubs and tell him it's all over.

• I gracefully walk into Smashburger and order an All American 1/3 lb. hamburger with smash sauce and smash fries.

• I spend about 5 seconds regretting my decision as I sit and wait for my food.

• When my food arrives, I decide it was the best decision of the decade and devour it.

And there you have it. I lost absolutely no weight on my 17 day experiment, but I did learn to incorporate more fruits and veggies into the diet and I now think twice about eating only meat as an entree. And I beat my loving husband. Did I mention that? Well I did.

So, 1 of my 2 resolutions is now shot. Sad, but true. I am still keeping up with my resolution to read though....I read 8 books in the month of January and I am contemplating offering my humble reviews of said books. We'll see if that post actually makes it to completion and onto the blog.