Post-Election Elation/failure?

A huge weight was lifted once this election was over and our president-elect was announced. I was so excited that when we went over to a friends house for dinner, I had wine and pizza with cheese on it! WHAT??? Yeah, I haven’t had any dairy in almost an entire year and I chose to have some because I felt bad. I didn’t want to disappoint my hosts and felt the peer pressure of eating what everyone else was. Why this time? I don’t know, I guess it was all the excitement. I feel really guilty about it even though I didn’t initially become plant based because of the environment or to save the animals. I became plant based for my health! Should I feel bad? Probably not, what is a few ounces (Maybe 1 as I took the cheese off the second slice of pizza) of dairy going to do to me? Probably not much. I can tell you one thing, I did notice a change in how I felt the next day. First of all, the alcohol gave me a killer headache through the night and the next morning. I felt hung over and slept in about 2 hours past my usual time. That was with just 1 glass of wine. Secondly, I had bloating and gained about 3lbs overnight from the cheese and salt in the pizza. My body does not do well with cheese, salt, or anything out of the ordinary. I have been weighing daily since I started fasting. From the beginning of October until now I have lost about 14 lbs. When I ate that pizza, I had only lost about 9lbs. My body does not like change! I know this is probably true for a lot of us out there. You have 1 bad meal and you check the scale, 3-5lb weight gain is noted and we all give up and continue down that negative path. This time, however, I did not go back on the negative path. I hunkered down, got back to my fasting and the weight has started to come off again. I have lost back down to 2 lbs shy of my originally lowest weight in the past month in just 5 days. Phew! I say these things to encourage people. I have always been a negative Nelly when it comes to weight loss. “My body is different”, “My body just wants to hold on to fat”, “I will never lose weight if I keep eating this way”, “Why do I worry so much about food when it won’t make a difference in the end anyway?”. . . and the negative comments go on and on. The truth is, I never had anyone to show me the right way to eat. As I have posted before, my family was the typical American family on the SAD diet. As of today, I have gotten back on track, minus 1 or 2 days over my calorie count, but I have no had any animal products and I don’t plan to ever again!