 What's up gang? Hello there. I hope you're having an awesome day, whatever day it is for you when you're seeing this. If this is your first time to my channel, welcome. There are so many videos on this channel with serious quality info that can help heal more than 90% of any health, wellness, or body image challenge. I am a holistic health practitioner. I work from home. I have my own business. And this channel is all about sharing my life with you how I live 80-20. Meaning I am optimally healthy 80% of the time, 20% of the time I treat myself to whatever I want. I am not strict. My goals are maintained effortlessly. And you can do it too. And there is so much jargon all over the place nowadays about having to be all strict with your goals and count macros and count calories. I don't count calories. I don't keep track of my macros. I don't do any exercise that doesn't feel good to me because I feel like I should or I feel like I have to. I just live healthy. I have fun. I love being active. I have also, as a side note, recovered from an eating disorder that I had for 11 years. The cat is out of the back. If you are struggling with such a thing, I am here for you. I get it. Comment below. Friend me on Facebook. I kick it with Kelly. Whatever you want to do, honestly, I'm here for you. DM me on Instagram. This is my Instagram. It's at kick it with Kelly with a dot between each word. Today, I thought I would take you along to a buffet. Best buck 49 buffet in town, clerk. It is my older brother's 40th birthday today. So we are off to a buffet. It is American mostly food. Hostess, Twinkie, Ding Dong. Canadian. I didn't know Canada had a cuisine. Anyway, you'll see what's there. I want to bring you because, you know, I thought about, well, let me show you how I do healthy eating at a buffet. That is so lame. How do I eat optimally at a buffet? Boring. How can you fully enjoy a buffet without worrying about gaining weight? Stop having a boring tuna. You know what? Stop having a boring life. Yada yada. That's not me. I am not about binging at these things. A binge is not healthy. It's really hard on the body and you shouldn't desire to binge or want to binge if your body is balanced mentally and physically. I, with the eating disorder, had a lot of binge issues happening. But I'm also not about to make this video on how to eat healthy at a buffet. How to navigate a buffet healthily. Fill all your plates with veggies then eat a lot of the salad bar. Personally, I'd never go to buffets. It's so rare. And I really do want to get my money's worth. And I want to enjoy everything that I don't allow myself on a day to day. That's what 80-20 is all about. You live 80% optimally healthy. What that looks like is Monday to Friday eating optimally healthy. On the weekends, you could do whatever you wanted and your body is not going to notice that insult. Obviously, unless you have extenuating circumstances like celiac disease or whatnot, I can also help you there. I am a master at hacking recipes. Relax. It's only magic. But time is getting on. So let's head to this buffet and I'll show you how I do it. Now, before I go transparent and show you my plates and exactly what was on them, because I will, I'll tell you a little bit more about the restaurant and what there is offered. There is tons of food here. All different kinds of cuisine. Here's the bread and soup station. Now, I personally stay away from all of the breads at places like this. Okay, the butters are fancy. Maple butter, urban garlic, whatever. I'm not going to spend precious stomach space on bread. Here's the salad bar area. I love Caesar salad. I choose that to fill with. One of the tactics that you could use to save calories and such would be to load up on veggies. So this is roasted cauliflower there. There's nothing else on it. So that, for example, would be backwards calories. The whole salad bar, if you go plain lettuce, a little bit of salad dressing, just load up on veggies that aren't covered in sauces. That will cut down a lot of your stomach space and save a bunch of calories that you would otherwise be eating in the form of pastas and other delicious things that, by the way, I fully enjoyed. So the salad bar for me is more about Caesar salad. I love it. It's delicious, yet also better for you than certain other things you could have. I love this kind of area. Now, you could go Asian if you wanted. You could go Italian if you wanted. You could go Mexican. They have an entire taco slash nacho bar. What? And I love a good holiday meal. And right here, there's all of the holiday meal fix-ins, including Yorkshire puddings, which are my favorite thing at bigger holiday meals that we have. There was no turkey this time, though. Just pork and two different kinds of beef, medium rare or well done, I believe. Two different kinds of fries, sweet potato or regular. And this is a noodle station. Rice bowls, noodle bowls, what? This is the dessert. And I am grateful that the dessert here is pretty lackluster, in my opinion, in comparison to other buffets I've been to, like the Mandarin. You can get a giant bowl of chocolate whip mousse if you want. But yeah, it's kind of meh. It's not too exciting, so I'll show you my dessert. But yeah, I didn't really get too nervous around the dessert front here. No matter what buffet I'm at, though, I'm getting a plate of all different kinds of desserts and the absolute best place ice cream bar that I just unfortunately didn't have enough room for. But so in love with this taco nacho bar that I really want to have at home. So brace yourselves, as mentioned, I go full out ham at these places and I do not avoid gluten or dairy or any of the other such things that normally I do avoid in my day to day life. So this was plate number one. On this plate, I tried to start out at the salad bar area. As you can see, up over here we have Caesar salad and macaroni salad. But then in comes the noodles and the slice of cheese pizza and the little pot sticker dumpling thing. I didn't eat the cauliflower or the broccoli. Surprise, it just wasn't very good according to somebody that I was eating dinner with. So nope, that stayed on the plate. And just as a side note, I did not completely clean each plate. As mentioned a few times on this channel, I'm obsessed with tacos. So I did not leave that taco nacho bar alone. This is just one singular beef taco. There's a little bit of salsa, a little sour cream, some lettuce. I don't actually use cheese and I can't use the nachos because processed corn is so inflammatory. Wheat is also with this tortilla here, but processed corn, the human body actually cannot digest that and mine especially. I will look at least eight months pregnant. It's not a pretty sight, but I didn't want taco gunk on the other food that I was about to eat. So I just gave it its own plate. Normally, generally, and every other time I'm at a buffet, I'm a three plate dinner person and a one plate dessert, but taco needs its own plate. As mentioned during the buffet tour, I love a good holiday meal and yes, normally during the regular holidays at home, I will load up on green beans or whatever the vegetable side dish of choice is. But in the spirit of how I do buffets, there are no green veggies on this plate this time. I like the starchy kind but I'm kind of just having a good time with my veggies. So we've got scalloped potatoes instead, sweet potato mash. That is medium rare beef with some horseradish. The gravy was absolutely divine here and to top it all off, a giant Yorkshire pudding. Again, same thing with this plate. I didn't clean the plate entirely. Okay. So as a general rule, my third and final dinner plate, let's not count the taco with its own plate, is a mish mash of everything that I absolutely loved and really, really wanted more of. So obviously that would be noodles, Caesar salad, some more of that melt in your mouth beef with the melt in your mouth gravy. Ugh, so delicious. That was the last plate for dinner. So for the pièce de résistance here, we have some cheesecake, bread pudding, absolutely divine. We have some loaf that was like a cranberry lemon loaf, some chocolate cake and some carrot cake. It was delicious. And again, no surprise here. I did not clean the plate. I almost cried when I walked by the ice cream realizing I was too full. And we're back from that buffet. I've got my comfy clothes on. It was amazing. You saw all of the food I ate. I am not worried about it. But let me show you what happens. It's kind of scary. As most of you may know, I have a very flat stomach. I might be able to see it in some of the other videos. But when I eat anything inflammatory, so the most inflammatory substances being alcohol, which I did not have, but wheat, barley, rye, corn, soy or dairy, which I don't even know everything that was in everything I ate. But it was amazing. Anyhow, look at what's gone on. I don't know. Can you see this? Look at that. You can knock on it. It's not sexy. I'm not trying to be sexy. I just wanted to show you what happens when you eat substances like that. Right? That was pretty vulnerable. But I mean, such as life, this is what happens. And don't worry if you have a night like this, one of these cheat nights, you could gain up to five pounds overnight or within three days of just water retention. Please keep in mind that the average person eats anywhere between 1,500 to 2,500 calories a day. 3,500 calories is a pound of fat, alright? So, not always necessarily, I'm just saying. In order to actually gain fat weight, you're going to have to eat a lot more calories than your body even takes to maintain its own life. So I would have to eat 3,500 calories surplus over that to even gain a pound. So please relax, please calm yourself. This belly of mine, this is going to be gone in the morning, probably. And if not within three days, it takes three days for the water retention and everything to fully set in. It takes another three to lose it. So please don't worry, enjoy your life. Just live optimally 80% of the time, like I said. And you'll be fine. If anyone wants to see an epic cheat day of mine, please comment below. I'm also going to be filming a video of how I lived and how I ate before I was healthy. That's going to be nuts. You won't even understand that I'm the same person after seeing that. But anyway I also thought, what if you're interested in seeing the recovery from the cheat day. So the cheat day, the belly like this guy here. And then how long it takes to go away, what's that like, how do I live the next day after a day like today. If you're interested, let me know. Wake up, wake up your eyes are shining wakey, waking wake up Okay, so it is morning. I just woke up. This is my stomach obviously the bloat has gone down. I'm still a little bit bloated because it is was quite inflammatory food but that's what we're looking like right now next morning. But until next time have super amounts of fun in your life and have super amounts of fun enjoying yourself and indulging when you want to without binging. I know I ate a lot of food but I promise you that was not a binge. Anyhow if you thought this video was helpful informative or entertaining at all, please hit the thumbs up down there for me as that lets me know what kind of content to keep producing for you. 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