Look how far we've come

Six years. Joe and I have been married six whole years. It's weird for me because I go from feeling that the time has flown by to not remembering my life without Joe in it. We've been through a lot in our six years but I'm looking forward to everything that is still to come.

We had a very nice anniversary. Joe actually left on a work trip to Atlanta today (our actual anniversary) so we decided to celebrate last night. We also decided to treat ourselves to a night off the diet so we got all dolled up and went out to a nice dinner. We picked a place in Orlando called, Fleming's Steakhouse. After browsing the online menus of a ton of different restaurants, this one just looked too good to pass up. We're very glad we picked it because it was delicious.

From the moment we walked into the restaurant, we were treated very special. When we made the reservation the hostess asked if it was for a special occasion. Joe told them it was our 6 year anniversary so everyone was prepared for us. They all told us happy anniversary and were just very pleasant and polite every step of the way.

On the way to the restaurant, I was trying to plan out my carbs. Something I've gotten in the habit of. I figured I'd skip the bread basket because it's not that big of deal to me but splurge on dessert. Well, epic FAIL on that one. They brought out the bread, which I like to think was baked by angels, and it was all over for me. It was rosemary infused bread with a roasted tomato butter spread and a champagne infused brie spread. Okay?! How is a girl supposed to refuse champagne infused anything?! I ended up enjoying three slices. And I don't care. That was the best bread I've ever eaten in my entire life. True story.

Then came the appetizer. Lobster tempura. Yup, deep fried lobster. About a billion carbs. We actually expected it to be much smaller than it was. It was 4 lobster tails and came with tempura mushrooms, red peppers, and asparagus. It was so delicious. I actually liked the tempura veggies more than the lobster but everything was so good. Being that we hadn't had any carbs in a while, we were pretty much full by the time we finished the appetizer. For dinner we didn't do too badly. I had a fillet and creamed spinach while Joe had seared scallops and chipotle mac-n-cheese. We hardly touched the mac-n-cheese though because we were pretty stuffed from everything else.

But since I'd been planning on dessert for weeks and since I'd been having naughty dreams about one particular dessert on the menu I had to save room for it. They boxed up half my dinner and I ordered the... wait for it... caramel walnut turtle pie!!! Yeah, I figured if I was going to cheat, I was going to make it worth it. On this diet, I think more than the taste of sweets, you begin to miss textures. Smooth, creamy, gooey... you can't get those textures from meat and veggies. So I was really excited when the pie came out and it was all those textures combined. It was so sweet and so decadent that we could only eat a couple bites each but we enjoyed those bites immensely.

After our dessert, the waiter brought over a special gift from the restaurant. It was four homemade chocolate truffles. We were both so stuffed that we couldn't even begin to taste them. We had the waiter box them up and we brought those home too. We gifted them to my mom this morning since our cheat day was officially over. It's nice every now and then but man, we really pay for those cheats the next day. It almost feels like being hung over. I don't know if you're body goes into shock from all the sugar or what. We both had headaches and belly aches this morning. It really reminds us why we continue to eat the way we do. We just really feel better without all the crap.

Anyway, 6 years down, many more to go. Just for fun, I've attached a couple of pictures. One from our wedding day. One of us just before we started our diet 4 months ago. And one from last night. Look how far we've come!