Day 59 - The weekend is over....NYC here I come!

Well in spite of now being an "at home contestant", i had a great weekend at the gym....
Friday night solo, Saturday am with the trainer (1 last freebie since it was already booked :)) and Sunday solo.....Sweating and working hard - got some great tips from Megan this past week and put them into play...like the V-Crunch - OUCH! DIdn't think I could get through all the layers on the abdominals, but I think I will be feeling that one tomorrow!

My sweet Uncle Omar is in the hospital, quite ill, so decided today I would run over there to visit my wonderful Aunt Ginny and all my cousins.....I decided that some cake and brownies were in order to bring....scary as that was to think about actually making something like that after 2 months off "sugar" including dough and batter :).....

The good news is I SURVIVED CAKE AND BROWNIE BATTER! For all the die hard bakers out there, you know that is BIG! Not a single lick of the bowl, spoon NOTHING! In fact, some of the chocolate landed on my ibuprophen (still trying to get the swelling out of my foot!) so I had to wipe that off....I thought, you aren't slipping in the pie hole that easy!

Please say a prayer for my Uncle Omar and his sweet family.....they can use the support right now as they go through this tough journey...............

Tomorrow, I head to NYC for 8 days....excited although it will be lots of work too....both speaking in terms of my job and my diet and my workout regimen! But I am up for the challenge....armed with lots of healthy food, workout clothes and my laptop!

Oscar party tonight at my sister's house...she was Sandra Bullock from Blind Side, I was ELLEN...I had to do it, you know since we are such "buds" now :).... It's an annual event full of fun women, dressed up in all kinds of get ups and of course FOOD....Seriously, do we do ANYTHING in this country without SUGAR, SALT, CHOCOLATE and some kind of CHEESE!?!
But I came armed with celery and hummus and some good water crackers with flaxseed (Seriously I never ever thought I would be thinking all that would be so delicious but it is?!!?!!)
....funny thing is, with all this other stuff around, everyone really liked that celery and hummus!
GO FIGURE! But I sure enjoyed a bit too and it kept me away from these seriously dangerous round small chocolate lava cakes that almost jumped off the plate onto my plate, thank goodness I didn't dawdle in front of it too long, as I did a driveby drool........or the sopapilla with icecream that my good friend Debby made.....DEBBY ARE YOU CRAZY BRINGING THAT?!?!

Anyway, home now, free of temptation...time to really seriously pack......................made it another weekend.....I won't be going to the Monday gathering with my peeps from Lose a TON which makes me sad, but I will be there with them in spirit...and once I land in NYC and check in at the hotel, I will have my own "Monday workout" and be thinking of them all the way.....


Until tomorrow, think about what you should win an Oscar for.......and then go for the gold!