A Birthday = Sayonara to a Diet!

Well, I turned the big 3-2 today. And my friends helped me celebrate in style. They know my true sweet tooth, and they know the lengths I have to go to in order to suppress it to maintain my weight. But the sweets came out in droves today!

It all started with this:

I have a weird obsession with candy corn. Around Halloween every year, I will eat enough to make myself sick on it, and then I have to have a reprieve. But around my birthday, the craving comes back!
And then this came along:

I have seen these in the stores for weeks now, but never tried them. But one of my sweet friends bought them for me, and OHMYGOD, so good. It's almost obscene how good they are. YUM.
Then came two cupcakes from two of my amazing friends:

A Publix cupcake from my student teacher. If you have Publix stores in your area, you gotta admit, their cupcakes are amazing. If you don't... your world makes me sad. The frosting is the best part, and my wise student teacher knows this. So she had them add TRIPLE the frosting. And in fun colors! Love it. And yes, the ribbon on top kind of makes it even more sparkly and fun.

Red velvet. Just... Just... YUM. The frosting was to die for.
For every birthday on my grade level, we all take turns buying that person's favorite dessert and bringing it in to share as a mini-celebration. My favorite sweet was brought in for sure:

These amazing doughnuts were from Donut King, and they're so so so good. They're the most ginormous doughnuts ever. I might have had two. My poor jeans.
And then, finished the day off with two very yummy items:

That would be a Bud Light, some grilled shrimp, and French fries.

Now, I'm back home, in my bed, and my belly feels stretched to capacity. I am a happy, happy, stuffed birthday girl, but truth be told? I think I'm ready to go back to protein and fiber and water tomorrow!

Ending the post with something beautiful I got today. My parents left on a cruise today, but before they left, they made sure I'd get gorgeous flowers delivered to work from them!

Early Morning Workout and Pizza for Dinner

It's Tuesday, and you know what that means... BIGGEST LOSER! Hopefully, the drama will begin to die down. I miss the old seasons where it was all about conquering weakness, getting in shape, changing lives, and actually losing weight. Now, it's become a middle school popularity contest, where a queen bee pulls the strings on her marionettes to make them dance for her amusement. It's a little frustrating, but I am hopeful!

Had a fabulous workout this morning. Tuesdays are "no run" days, so I cross train. I did the Turn up the Music workout from BodyRock.TV. It was a quick 12 minute high intensity interval challenge. I set my interval time for 12 rounds of two segments - 10 seconds rest interval and 50 seconds max interval. I did six different workouts twice:

1)Walking Push-Up & Knee Jump Tuck -- 4//3
2) Plank Jumps with Weight Ball & Clean & Press -- 4//3
3) Low Jacks and V-Split on a dip station -- 7//9
4) Superman Push-ups -- 7//7
5) Turkish Get-Ups with Weight Ball and Standing Jump -- 7//7
6) Sumo Squat with High Knee and Half Burpee -- 5//4

Only twelve minutes, and I was pouring sweat! It's great for my workouts before work. I can wake up at 5:30, work out, make breakfast, get dressed, and leave for work by 6:50.

I got to snuggle a five-day-old baby today! My friend Julie had her second child, a gorgeous little girl named Ellie, last Thursday. So snuggling her today was super sweet. I love the way babies smell of baby powder and just... love. It's a very unique scent. I was a tried and true baby hog, not giving the baby up until her grandfather protested. I SUPPOSE he deserves to hold his new grandbaby. WHATEVER. :)

I went over today with dinner (a large cheese pizza and garlic knots) and dessert (4 cupcakes from Parkside Bakery, an amazing bakery in Grayson, Georgia). While I did cave and have two pieces of pizza and two garlic knots, I DID refrain from eating ANY of the cupcakes. I feel like I deserve mad praise for that. Cupcakes are my weakness. They're little portable cakes! They are PERFECT!

Today's food:
Breakfast - 3 scrambled eggs with chopped green and red peppers
AM Snack - cottage cheese, green pepper sticks
Lunch: lean ground beef, grape tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, light ranch cup
PM Snack - protein drink, cottage cheese
Dinner - 2 pieces cheese pizza, 2 garlic knots (I'm not even sorry)

Yep... Cupcakes are my weakness. And doughnuts. And mozzarella sticks. And Jalapeno Cheddar Cheetos. And wings. And pizza. And Reese's peanut butter ANYTHING.......

Somebody stop me now!

(PS - I totally meant to take a few pictures today to put on the blog to make it more interesting, and I forgot! I will get better... I promise!)