Whoops.

Oh man, you guys.  I was SO naughty this past week.  No, not that kind of naughty.  Get your head out of the gutter, sicko.

You know how I told you I have a sugar problem?  Well let me tell you,  I have been doing a pretty good job of avoiding it at all costs for MONTHS.  I was starting to feel like I actually had will power.  Thennn…my birthday happened.  I am allowed sour patch kids on my birthday right?  Sure, 1 box of sour patch kids is fine.  But you know…I HAD to eat multiple.  Right after I had two burgers WITH BUNS.  Gasp.

Then…our campus connect event happened, which is pretty much an awesome carnival like thing we do on campus and have naughty foods like cotton candy, caramel corn, soft pretzels, snow cones, etc.  I had all of those.  Had to make sure it was good enough for the students, duh.

OH..then we had back to back weddings this weekend.  I mean how can I turn down WEDDING CAKE?! It would be like an insult to the couple or a curse on their marriage if I did not eat their wedding cake! I could never do such a thing!  Not to mention, now I know how much all that crap costs from planning my own wedding.  I was not about to let those hard earned dollars go to waste..no sireeeee not me.

So I have had pretty much 10 solid days of too many sweets, too much alcohol, too much bad food.  I was actually starting to see my abs come through before this binge and then BAM they are gone.  Long gone, covered by a bloated sugar belly.  So this week will be trying to re-set my body to go back to all the gains I was making while I was being good.  But  all I can think about today is sour patch kids or those amazing looking sugar cookies my co-worker brought in.  MUST. STAY. STRONG.   Sugar is seriously the devil.

It is okay to be human.  It is okay to splurge as long as you get yourself back on track.  Sometimes I don’t want to be the Jill that everybody thinks is lame because I don’t drink much or eat certain things.   BUT what I always learn when I deviate and go crazy (no matter how fun it is) is that I feel way better when I am strict with what I eat, my workouts are better, my energy levels are better, I am just happier with myself.  It is okay to cheat every now and then and not think about how much you have to do to work off that oreo, life is too short to think like that ALL the time.  And, you would go crazy.

This weekend I made a bunch of spaghetti squash and mixed it with lots of veggies (if you are a pasta lover, I highly recommend this), took a trip to our favorite little Mexican market to pick up our meat, stocked up at the farmers market and I am ready to go.  It also helps that I have a weekend at the lake planned in two weeks.   Somehow, having to be in a bathing suit around people that love to take lots of pictures and post them on FB (curse them!!) is always a good motivation to get serious 😉

Stay blessed in the mess!