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<\/a><\/p>\nThis 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.\u00a0 It also helps that I have a weekend at the lake planned in two weeks. \u00a0 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 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
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Oh man, you guys.\u00a0 I was SO naughty this past week.\u00a0 No, not that kind of naughty.\u00a0 Get your head out of the gutter, sicko. You know how I told you I have a sugar problem?\u00a0 Well let me tell you,\u00a0 I have been doing a pretty good job of avoiding it at all costs for MONTHS.\u00a0 I was starting to feel like I actually had will power.\u00a0 Thennn…my birthday happened.\u00a0 I am allowed sour patch kids on my birthday right?\u00a0 Sure, 1 box of sour patch kids is fine.\u00a0 But you know…I HAD to eat multiple.\u00a0 Right after I had two burgers WITH BUNS.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I had all of those.\u00a0 Had to make sure it was good enough for the students, duh. OH..then we had back to back weddings this weekend.\u00a0 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!\u00a0 Not to mention, now I know how much all that crap costs from planning my own wedding.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I was actually starting to see my abs come through before this binge and then BAM they are gone.\u00a0 Long gone, covered by a bloated sugar belly.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 But\u00a0 all I can think about today is sour patch kids or those amazing looking sugar cookies my co-worker brought in.\u00a0 MUST. STAY. STRONG.\u00a0\u00a0 Sugar is seriously the devil. It is okay to be human.\u00a0 It is okay to splurge as long as you get yourself back on track.\u00a0 Sometimes I don’t want to be the Jill that everybody thinks is lame because I don’t drink much or eat certain things. \u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It also helps that I have a weekend at the lake planned in two weeks. \u00a0 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 \ud83d\ude09 Stay blessed in the mess!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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