Here's my confession:

Call me a pig, I'm ready to wallow in it. LOL. Today's my birthday and I ate A LOT! I just polished off bacon wrapped/ srimp stuffed jalepeno poppers, chips and guacamole, steak, salmon, roasted corn, honey baked beans, then german chocolate cake AND vanilla cake (my cake and my mom's---we share a birthday!), and now I'm finishing up a bottle of champagne from New Years that's miraculously still good!! I'm dying now, and I know I'll pay tomorrow, but it hurts so good!!

Gosh, I'm full just reading about all that food ...

Chinese food last night and martinis

oy i was having such a good day...and then BAM 12:00 rolls around and my food habits become horrendous!! what is the deal??

its not good when you cant remember what you ate, right?

Bad all weekend again, but haven't had to move my ticker today (since I moved it up last week!). Mexican food twice (steak fajita nachos), chocolate chip cookies several times and a hamburger and fries!

This isn't so much a confession as an acknowledgment of reality. We had a little dinner party last night and made some calorific foods for our guests. I allow myself one really good meal each week, so no guilt on this end, just pure joy.

I made a delicious salad with baby greens, candied walnuts, roquefort, pear and 1 slice of bacon (split 4 ways). It was sooooo good! Then my bf had done a bbq beer can roasted chicken (I did not touch the crispy skin), with red potatoes roasted in roasted garlic oil, and some grilled asparagus. Finally, I had made the most delicious chocolate caramel tart. It was insanely divine. And we had 3 bottles of wine between the 4 of us. I say, when you're going to have a calorie-blow out, do it properly, with really good food, prepared really well, rather than going to McDonald's! Fortunately, I ate nothing other than some scrambled egg whites yesterday, prior to dinner. I'm guessing I nonetheless blew my calorie budget for the day.

The trouble is, there is still a big ole chunk of the chocolate caramel tart left. I gave half the remainders to our friends, but we got stuck with the other half. Intending to have a piece for dessert tonight, I entered the whole thing into Nutridiary. A 1/12th tart piece is 633 calories!!! And that is before the whipped cream served with it. Oy vey! Fortunately I'm 'losing-while-maintaining' at the moment, and I can actually fit a 633 cal dessert into my 1800 cal allowance. But wow. 633 calories!!!! For 1/12th of a tart! Still, I'll eat it slowly tonight, and enjoy every mouthful.

3 pieces of Toblerone

Seven pieces of black licorice. Dear heavens, what was I thinking?????

I just wanna say, not that you should throw off completely, that with one pound to go, you deserve to have a some good fun like that sometimes. I stress the SOMEtimes, because not doing that got me back up to my current weight! LOL!!

That's how I regained 12 pounds too over the winter, actually, from my original weight loss a couple of years ago. Not eating like that every night, obviously, but a general relaxation of my good habits (and the development of a fondness for a particular triple-cream french cheese, which I would eat each night with hunks of bread and a glass of wine while cooking dinner...so delicious, so conducive to weight gain...). This is why I'm trying to eat 1800-2000 calories a day at the moment. I'm still losing, but I mostly consider myself in-training for the rest of my life. And dinner parties with extravagant food are going to be a part of the rest of my life. The trick is balancing the occasional extravagance with solid healthy eating the rest of the time...

I STILL haven't worked out this week! Today I'm bloated and crampy and I know I need to, but I'm still groggy and unmotivated.

I had 12 graham crackers with peanut butter and jam last night after dinner. I wasn't hungry. Just felt like finishing them off. Tonight - no snack after dinner. Just tea.

Bikini, I've been drinking tea in the evenings this week to keep me from noshing, it's definitely helping.

Midearth, I'm having a tough time working out this week too! I skipped it totally on Monday, and yesterday and today I went to the gym but I was practially sleeping on the elliptical, I wonder what's up!

Oh and since this is a confession thread I had a Ben and Jerry's ice cream cone yesterday because it was free cone day! I also had a lemon poppyseed muffin that my mom gave me before leaving from visiting, but it was huge so I ate 3/4 of it and quickly tossed the rest.

sick today...couldnt deal with making lunch for me and dd. Did McD's drive thru...ick. At least she ate all the apples and milk, a few fries and maybe 1/3 of her burger...so mommy guilt isn't too bad. I on the other hand ate all my lunch so...

snowbunny2 -- I think the laziness, for me anyways, is definitely caused by the weather... Blay weather = blah Ilene = no exercise ....

Today I had 2 pieces of Toblerone but my calories for the day are good... I've been drinking just hot water in the evenings to keep the munchies away...