Week 4 - A quarter of the way in

Oh Lord, does it hurt!

This poster about sums up how I feel.  I'm down to 13lbs and I'm even starting to see it myself.  I can see my curves becoming tighter and my pants becoming loser.  It feels good.  But don't be misconceived, that cupcake still looks good too.

I baked an awesome cake this weekend.  Chocolate syrup cake with a homemade buttercream.  I gave the WHOLE thing away. It felt good to bake, it felt even better not to eat it.  I also made about 50 peanut butter and jelly chocolate cups with a nice sea salt topping.  I gave ALL of them away too.  I didn't even eat one.  That was rough.  It makes me wonder if I do ever open up my own bakery, will I really be able to give everything away without eating it, LOL?

I worked it out on the treadmill this weekend.  I did an 8 incline for about 45 minutes.  It.Was.Rough.  I even took a picture of myself afterwards.  I defintely worked up a sweat and a beet red face.  I was going to post on here, but my iphone also crashed this weekend and I lost a ton of stuff (hmm - maybe it was a sign not to post the picture!).  I didn't make my 5am workout this morning.  I also sliced my thumb in making the cake and well, working out and grabbing weights didn't sound too pleasant.  But, not to fret... I rescheduled for 5am tomorrow.  And Term is going to town on legs, so it shouldn't be too difficult.

I went out to eat this past weekend.  Had 1 chip.  Had 1 cheesetick.  Had 1 beer.  It's all about moderation. I had grilled chicken and broccoli for dinner.  So, the healthy decisions are starting to truly become a habit.  I found a recipe on Pinterest for frozen mint chocolate chip icecream.  I am a mint choc NUT.  Apparently, they make vanilla chocolate chunk greek yogurt now by Chobani.  I'm curious to try it.  Drop in a few drops of peppermint extract and freeze for a few hours and bam - you have frozen yogurt.  So, I'm goin to see how this works soon.  But I gotta find the yogurt first.

On to another week :)