Had a nice NYE, although I ate way too much. I had too many chips with spinach artichoke dip and lots of crackers with crab dip and two and a half glasses of wine. I went to take Lucy for a walk while my friend Kelley was finishing the short ribs she was cooking and when I got back they had served me a plate. It was hilarious how huge it was. I did eat some of the short ribs and probably more than I should have seeing as I wasn't hungry, but they were AMAZING! Seriously restaurant quality short ribs. I had a couple of bites of mashed potatoes and no dessert. Had a sip of champagne to toast new years but I'm not much of a champagne drinker anyway, so poured the rest of it out. We hung out, chatted and watched Paranormal Activity. Okay....so Julia watched. Kelley and Dave fell asleep and I sat sideways to the TV playing a game on my phone so that I didn't have to be surprised by the scariness. Julia would say "OH MY GOD", and I would know to look at the TV. GREAT way to watch a scary movie...just watch someone else watching the movie. ;-)
So once my friends left at 1am, there was a ton of food left. I had already tossed some of it, but there was guacamole, chips galore, 3/4 of an apple pie. I had a choice...."Well tomorrow is New Years Day, I have no plans, I can just keep it and munch tomorrow", or "If it's here I'll eat it, if it's not, I won't". So, I threw it all away. Such a waste of food, but better in the trash then in me.
Because I'm a glutton for punishment I weighed myself last night before I went to bed. Now I weighed 204.8 on Tue, was up to 205.6 Thursday morning due to some snacking on Wed. I was 208.2 before I went to bed last night....OMG!!! I knew alot of it was salt and alcohol, but OMG! Woke up this morning, was back to 205.6. Couldn't believe I didn't gain. That being said, I got my a$$ to the gym this morning and did an hour there. Restarted couch to 5k and then did 25 minutes of arms and back. I'm really proud of myself for making the decision to work out. I really want to get into the habit of 4 times per week and also want to finish this damn C25k which I can't do if I restart it every couple of months! After working out this morning I did some laundry and ordered a couple of things from Amazon. Gramma gave me a gift card for my birthday - thanks Gramma. I ordered the Gillian Michaels 30 day shred workout dvd along with a pair of five pound weights and for fun got the first season of Glee. ;-)
Oh I made myself some chili again the other day. It was great. Took some advice from Gen and added a bit of red wine, a dash of nutmeg, oregano, and I decided to use pinto beans and black beans instead of kidney beans this time. Oh, I also used Turkey instead of Beef and will do that always...I cannot tell the difference. It's really yummy!! Had some of it for lunch today.
My apartment is clean, laundry done, I've worked out and now I plan to chill out watching football with my animals. Hope you all had a great NYE! xoxo
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Happy New Year! Sounds like a fun celebration and in my liquid diet state, the food sounds pretty tasty!!
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Happy New Year Jen.. sounds like it was fun!!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you had a wonderful NYE! Ours was great too! I did overindulge in the food a bit (so much to sticking to plan), but I did restrain from the alcohol.
ReplyDeleteGood job for you throwing out all the leftovers! You have got willpower like no other person I've "met" :)
I'm sadly without a scale for a few days until we are back at home in Seattle. Scary!!!
Happy New Year to you! Good for you for throwing away the leftovers. It was the right thing to do - otherwise the food would be sitting there, tormenting you. Someone came over Thursday with one and a half dozen cupcakes from Crumbs bakery. I BEGGED them to take the rest home when they left, but they didn't. They're going in the trash.
ReplyDeleteMy idea of a great night in, watching football with the ones you love! Maybe next year you'll be +1 great guy!!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Jen!! Great job on getting things back on track and big kudos for making the right choice with the left overs, that's the way to assert control over it !!
ReplyDeleteSo my clairvoyance abilities are telling me that we might be able to get together this month sometime for those onderland pedi's !!! What do you think??