Sugar Mama!

I don’t know what my deal is…I have been CRAVING sugar!  As of this evening…it is OVER.  I have got to get this under control! 

Today include cupcake tasting, for J’s birthday (these were SPLIT):

The bottom right one is a pupcake…for Reese :)

It included one of these (light a LOT less sugar):

Two of these:

SO yeah…the sugar has got to stop! 

I curbed some of it with:

 

Butternut squash fries and cubes…cubes for later!

 

Finishing off the evening with lots of this:

And after I finish tonight’s episode of Big Brother (which I am NOT digging this season AT ALL!) I am going to read this:

  

Who is that?  That is Jen from PriorFatGirl…SHE IS A ROCKSTAR!  Congrats on your article Jen!  You look BEAUTIFUL!

Oh yeah and one week from today…I will be here:

Source

For 24 hours staying with this lovely lady!

All that to be on my way to Jersey for this hot girl’s wedding!

To say I am looking forward to the people I will get to spend time with is an UNDERSTATEMENT!  I can’t wait to be around these great women! 

ONE WEEK!  Can’t wait!

Tomorrow is TUBING with the family!  It will be fun!

I Have Cheese In My Purse :)

Yesterday was a fun day…I hung out with my friend J and we did all sorts of different things!

The day started with Reese and I running a few errands.  Went to the vet (Reese weighs 34.5 pounds), closed a bank account, ran to the other bank, post office, gas, and picked up bagels.  I had a bagel thin and egg for breakfast…sorry no picture!

Then later on we went and had lunch at a cool old pharmacy that had a soda fountain.  J wanted a malt and had found this place online…it was a fun place and I had a nice healthy Turkey Sandwich with mustard!  I also left with Monkey Mints :)

  

Across the street was a nursery…they had pretty flowers and well, I like to take pictures…

  

Followed by a cheese shop…it was so fun and interesting to find out about different cheeses!  We left with 5 different types :) (hoping that down the road I get to be a part of whatever creations come out of it)

Maybe followed by some Gelato…MAYBE.

 

That all followed up with 3+ HOURS of shopping for random hat…someone wants a certain hat for his birthday boat party…not like I didn’t have fun shopping…but REALLY?

Dinner was Texas Land & Cattle…where I am sure the waitress might have hated me for my no butter on this, can you take the croutons off, dressing on the side, side of lemons…no bread on the table self.  Who cares…I should get what I want right?  And I was trying to be good!

 

There were LOTS of leftovers taken home!

And that whole time after we had gone to the cheese shop…during hours of shopping and such…well the cheese had to stay out of the heat somehow :)  I had cheese in my purse…it was the joke of the day.

Good thing I was TRYING to be good the whole day…who KNEW that I would eat out for every meal…NOT ME!  I am glad that I made healthy choices…because at the end of the day when I had some of this and this…I didn’t feel NEARLY as guilty!

 

That might possibly be the BEST mac and cheese I have EVER had followed by Apple and Blackberry Cobbler.  Thank you Daily Grill for sending J a gift certificate for his birthday…good thing I signed him up for it years ago!

Please don’t judge me on my one day of eating out…it wasn’t planned…and I don’t regret it!  It was spread out over a 16 hour period! (and for the record…the scale didn’t budge!)

And thank you J for spending WAY TOO MUCH money on me…I had fun and I appreciate it!

I am TOO OLD FOR THIS!

Man I have been booking it for the last 48+ hours.  I helped a friend with a wedding this weekend…and it was a LOT of work.  I helped for nearly 6 hours on Friday and then 12+ hours yesterday.  All on my feet.  The good news?  I bet I burned a TON of calories, I didn’t eat wedding cake, and best of all…I hope I made a good impression on people that could possibly help out my job situation!

I did take some photos of the finished product…but they are on my cell and not the best of quality!  When I see the pictures from the photographer I will share…

So a little glimpse of my eats from yesterday: A BIG Salad (Cucumbers, Romaine, 3 kinds of tomatoes, goat cheese, and measured out dressing), A sandwich thin with low sodium turkey breast, and the MOST AMAZING VEGGIE SANDWICH EVER!  It had grilled yellow peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant and mozzarella…with some kind of basil pesto… SIMPLY DEVINE!

 

Today…there was a nap or two :)  A movie or two…some job searching and some REALLY good eats!

   

For breakfast I had the remaining fruit (mango, blueberries and strawberries) and then the left over zucchini, squash and onions I had in my fridge…finely chopped and sautéed in the pan…with egg whites added later.  Topped with some goat cheese…YUM!

For lunch another low sodium turkey sandwich with a sandwich thin…and of course a bowl of tomatoes with goat cheese and dressing…there was another unpictured bowl later in the day :)

A Frap, a bowl of cherries and the leftovers from the Crockpot creation from the other day! 

Some people have asked for the recipe…I literally took the ingredients and threw them in the Crockpot…there was maybe 2 cups of the mushroom broth, a handful of chopped cilantro, some seasonings and about a pound of chicken.  I took the diced tomatoes and squeezed as much juice out of them as possible and drained the black beans…

The leftovers were GREAT!

I also made the frozen banana freeze with a splash of almond breeze in my Magic Bullet tonight…it was YUM…but I forgot to take a picture!  DARN IT!

Tomorrow is weigh in day!  Not necessarily looking forward to it, but ready to start a new again!

Alright…back to my lazy Sunday…Reese is in charge of the entertainment tonight :)

Two days in One…

Yesterday was a long and at times brutal day.  Early in the morning I left to get my injections in my back.  For the record the back and neck are two different beasts.  The back is from my car accident in November.  My neck is probably a combination of stress, sleeping wrong and who knows what else.  My neck is feeling a wee bit better and my back…well it is a wait and see game.

During the day yesterday LuAnn called and asked me if I was available to come and help her deliver flowers…HECK YEAH!  It was fun!  It fit in with my take it easy orders from the doc.  So I delivered pretty flowers to a couple of places…of course I took pictures so you could see how pretty they were :)

  Yesterday’s Eats were right on par…and with all the water I drank…the scale and my body were much happier after the Salt-a-poloza I put my body through on Wednesday.

Today was a day full of errands.  I had to open a new bank account because my current bank decided it wants to charge me for my checking account because I don’t have direct deposit…I tried to explain to them that I would LOVE to have a job and even one that had direct deposit.  In the end I told them adios and found a bank that will love me just the way I am :)

I also created a crock pot meal because I would be gone all afternoon…and I wanted dinner waiting for me when I got home.  And since I don’t have a boy to make me dinner…the crock pot would just have to do :)  CHECK IT OUT…it WAS AWESOME!  When I opened the door…all I could smell was my creation!

 

The rest of today’s eats:

Tomorrow is another day of errands and then helping out a friend…it will be another LONG day…but I will consume my water and eat my good eats!

What are you up to this weekend?

SOMEONE is ready for bed :)