Holidays, Migraines, and Scales

Holidays.  I LOVE holidays!  I am the biggest little kid when it comes to holidays!  I still want stockings and Easter baskets and I better get a birthday party because in my opinion birthdays are the most important days of the year!!  Unfortunately as we all know holidays aren't just about gifts and non-edible items... they are about food.  Not just food but GOOD food.  Wonderful food.  The BEST food!  This means that every time a holiday comes around I give myself a bit of a free pass to eat the BEST food as much as I want.  Unfortunately this caused a dent in my goal this weekend because I will admit to all of you that due to a migraine and a holiday I let myself GOOOOOOOOO.....

I was doing so good last week!  I even had the power to deny a little bitty cookie at lunch one day because I knew I was going to have a hamburger on Sunday for Easter.  Unfortunately I had more to contend with this weekend that I thought.  Saturday my husband and I went to shoot pictures at a wedding.  (My husband is a photographer on the side.)  Everything was great except the fact that I had a migraine creeping into the corners of my eyes and taking over my brain.  I ate a slice of bread hoping that would help but no the pain just kept on coming so I gave in hoping "real food" would help and had some bbq, baked beans, and small butter potato halves.  I gazillion calories later and I feel bad for having gone off track and my head has started pounding along with the reception music.  FINALLY we get to leave the wedding and my head feels like it has been battered by the All-Star hitters of the Astros.  My wonderful husband that I don't deserve decided to detour and get my migraine medication filled and on the way in a moment of My head is killing me and I don't care a flip about calories or the resulting addition of inches to my already ginormous bottom I inform him that I wan Tres Leches cake... and a big one at that!  So while waiting for my prescription to be filled my husband takes us to the grocery store where he purchases me and 1/8 of a sheetcake of yummy Tres Leches and a Coke Zero.  I know what you are thinking, isn't that the same thing as getting a super sized meal at McDonald's with a Diet Coke?  Maybe but Coke Zero is the BEST.  So we get the life saving meds and head home.

What I should have been doing on Easter!

Upon arriving I walk into the house, into the bedroom, strip and get in bed, and somehow manage to tell him I want a 1/4 of that cake.  Now don't blame him for giving into my "wants" because honestly if I'm hurting that bad and I have my mind set one something I might just rip your arm off if you deny me so he was only going along out of a sense of self-preservation.  You see this Ginger can be pretty brutal at times...okay a lot of times...don't judge that is one of the things I am working on! (sort of)  So I'm cuddled in bed can barely see and can't keep a coherent thought in my head due to the pain and I am gorging myself on Tres Leches cake...at that point I wasn't even remorseful.  Then I lay down and go to sleep - Body Media Fit be darned!

The next day I wake up... finish the swing I painted for my Moms-In-Law and enter the house to a stack of french toast sitting on the table.  I give up... Its Easter...I'm giving myself a break.  Only I don't give myself a tiny break... No I give myself a three pieced of french toast, one hamburger, one hotdog, one serving of mac and cheese, two servings of mashed potatoes and baked beans, and a huge slice of tres leches cake kind of break.  I didn't even bother trying to figure out the calories and other than the grown-up Easter egg hunt, a fight with his means that when I stepped on the scale that night instead of seeing a drop of two pounds I saw an increase of two pounds.  This was when the remorse kicked in :(  I blame no one but myself but let me tell you... This Ginger is really good at personal guilt trips so I spent the rest of the night kicking myself in the butt (which I'm sure had gained 2 inches!!!).  Then of course AFTER I eat my weight in food my mom shows me all of the cute pictures she had taken during the Easter egg hunt.  And I don't feel near as skinny on film as I do in the mirror!  I will be printing some of these out for motivation!

My artful rendition of my Greenmyer family... pets and all :)

Yesterday I woke up with an allergy attack and a headache and stayed in bed most of the day just barely managing to get up and attend my group in the afternoon.  Thus of course I missed my workout yesterday.  Grrrrrrrr!!!  I did however try to stay within my calorie range.

So today since I am feeling 5% better than I was yesterday I am determined to make up for what I did this past weekend!  Thank goodness we don't have another holiday for a few weeks!!  I have a couple more weeks to get down to 178lbs but it would be great if I could make it 175lbs!!  I started my morning with a Smart Ones breakfast of Pancakes and Turkey Sausage which was actually pretty darn good and that was only 280 calories and tonight I'm going to get my behind kicked by P90X!!

Says it all!

So just remember there are times when we can give ourselves a break and relax just a little bit.  Just don't do what I do and blow a weeks worth of work on a hamburger/hotdog combo!  We should NEVER eat of 2000 calories a day, and as my friend Jaren says the food that I want right now will be waiting there for me once I reach my goal.  One thing I can say about this Easter is that in all of my prepping and making of Easter buckets for the family I didn't buy one single piece of candy!  I filled all of my eggs with non-edible toys and tried to be as "healthy" as possible on that front.

Well, I hope you guys did better than me this weekend and if not then guess what!  Its a new day and time to start again!  I am so proud of all of you!  I love reading about how you are staying with your workout programs even when its easier to skip a day or two!!  I can't wait until we are all standing at the finish line in our super cute "skinny clothes" looking all awesome and gorgeous!

I'll chat with you guys later and let you know how the next phase of P90X is kicking my rear-end!  Oh and don't forget to throw out/donate all of that left-over Easter candy!!  That is such and easy temptation to get rid-of!  Bring it to the office or send it with the hubby to work!!  Share the love handles!!

Let me know how your Easter was ~  I'm of FB under Sarah Michelle Rose-Greenmyer or at Texas_Ginger23@yahoo.com