Hello all!  I missed posting Sunday and Monday this week.  If you read this on occasion, you will know that I try to weigh myself and post it on Sundays and Wednesdays.  Last week I broke into the 40’s with a 149 weight and vowed to “do the work” in order to make the 40’s my new home. 

Here is what you probably don’t know…I hosted my child’s Birthday party this weekend.  I made the carrot cake from a vegan recipe with fresh carrots and applesauce in it (never mind the oil and added sugar).  In order to save myself from myself, I frosted the cake with a non-vegan store bought cream cheese frosting.  However, there was some leftover batter so of course I made cupcakes and did not frost those. Come party time, I only had snacked on some veggies at lunch time and I was famished.  So naturally, I ate two unfrosted cupcakes.  They tasted like carrot muffins…which reminds me- isn’t there a name for the fat that pours over the top of your jeans?  Ah, yes I believe that is called the muffin top.  How appropriate!  I also ate four tacos with guacamole both Saturday and Sunday night.  So it was of no surprise Sunday when I saw that I weighed 150 again.  However, it was a pleasant surprise to see 149 back again today and hopefully for good. 

All of this going back and forth between one or two pound is really not a big deal and I am sure that it is normal and healthy.  I am not genuinely concerned in the slightest.  One thing I refuse to let myself do is repeat behavior from High School…starve yourself for days in a row…guilt yourself over any little slip or even eating at all…then justify your then rampage of binge eating with all the stress and withdrawal you suffered before that.  That is exactly what I hope all people collectively say good-bye to.

The only real bad news of the weekend is I have gotten a cold.  At my age, it is pretty hard to manage my responsibilities and have this cold.  So I have not ran yet this week; maybe tomorrow I will.  I forgot to make my smoothie this morning.  But we had a fantastic lunch- see below.  I am making snobby joe’s for dinner (sloppy joe’s with lentil’s instead of meat- from my Veganomican cook book) so my calorie count should be around 760 today between the lunch pictured and a snobby joe (unless I eat more and I am not ruling that out- maybe an orange to help combat this cold). 

Enjoy good health and decisions today friends!   

  For lunch: carrots, grape toms, hummus, cucumbers, cauliflower, kidney beans, strawberries, & blueberries.  Also my children got a black bean patty from last nights leftover dinner.  Served with a glass of ice water, this meal was delish!