When Jen and I went to Pittsburgh, we had a plan. We knew that we needed to be good and keep each other on track. We also knew that spending time with her mom was culinary heaven and one should not deprive themselves of that.
We were right on track for the ride. We both came prepared for the drive with greek yogurt, fruit, eggs and will power. The planned cheat was as follows.
Thursday: Dinner
Friday: Dessert
Saturday: Lunch
Sunday: Breakfast
That is a full days worth of cheats, conveniently spread out during the whole trip. Aren't we smart cookies?
When I walked into the house, the first thing that I smelled was what I learned was Thai Basil and Beef. Vacation had started. Additionally, probably 6 other dishes were also prepared just for our arrival. Nothing beats Mrs. Rena's home made thai food. I didn't get fat not knowing what good food tasted like. For breakfast, (which I did not count as a cheat), we had sticky rice with mango's. A little dish that I had discovered at the Thai festival and simply fell in love with. Made fresh, just for me! I love Mrs. Rena. At one point, Jen had made reference to the new Candy Corn Oreo cookies hitting the shelves. Well, that was all I needed to hear. Cheat dessert was planned. It was only a matter of hunting them down. After some google searching and scaling the isles at the grocery store, we decided to wing it. Sticking with the same general idea, we bought frozen greek yogurt, a pack of Oreo cookies and a bag of candy corn. Yummmmmmm!!!! It was so ridiculously sweet that Jen could not finish it. (I didn't have that problem.). Our Saturday lunch plans brought us to Jerome Bettis Grill. Apparently he is some special football player. All I know was that they had deep fried cheeseburgers on the menu. You have to know that this was not something I was going to pass on knowing that it was a cheat meal. We did do "the right thing", we shared. We had salad and water as our sides and drink. Not too too terrible. For breakfast, we ended up making it more of a brunch. We visited one of her hunky cousins at a new cafe where I not only had a sandwich, I ordered a chai and potato chips. All in all, not bad. I didn't expect to lose weight, but I was a bit shocked to see that I stayed the same. Not bad at all! I am sure it didn't hurt that we got a workout in. Hold on... let me rephrase that... we attempted a few times to get a workout in.
So the workout story is not quite as much a tale of success. It is more of a tale proving that sometimes, what can go wrong, will go wrong. Our gym locations were as to be expected, everywhere but wherever needed them. We were sort of bummed but excited to test out the local digs. In our search, we found a gym that popped up in the area but it didn't have a website. No website + 2012 = Sketchy. My initial suspicions were correct. It was the worst excuse for a gym that we have ever seen. Terrible, just terrible. Needless to say, we were not up on our tetanus shots so we thought it was best to leave and never return.
With a bit more researching and a lot more driving we found another gym. A wonderful little place that bought into our charm and hooked us up a bit on the guest fees. Of course the second day, after a long day out and dragging our buts across the country to the gym. We pulled up only to find that they closed early on Sundays. We tried. That's all I have to say. The effort was there and we resolved to the fact that some things are just not meant to happen.
We were right on track for the ride. We both came prepared for the drive with greek yogurt, fruit, eggs and will power. The planned cheat was as follows.
Thursday: Dinner
Friday: Dessert
Saturday: Lunch
Sunday: Breakfast
That is a full days worth of cheats, conveniently spread out during the whole trip. Aren't we smart cookies?
When I walked into the house, the first thing that I smelled was what I learned was Thai Basil and Beef. Vacation had started. Additionally, probably 6 other dishes were also prepared just for our arrival. Nothing beats Mrs. Rena's home made thai food. I didn't get fat not knowing what good food tasted like. For breakfast, (which I did not count as a cheat), we had sticky rice with mango's. A little dish that I had discovered at the Thai festival and simply fell in love with. Made fresh, just for me! I love Mrs. Rena. At one point, Jen had made reference to the new Candy Corn Oreo cookies hitting the shelves. Well, that was all I needed to hear. Cheat dessert was planned. It was only a matter of hunting them down. After some google searching and scaling the isles at the grocery store, we decided to wing it. Sticking with the same general idea, we bought frozen greek yogurt, a pack of Oreo cookies and a bag of candy corn. Yummmmmmm!!!! It was so ridiculously sweet that Jen could not finish it. (I didn't have that problem.). Our Saturday lunch plans brought us to Jerome Bettis Grill. Apparently he is some special football player. All I know was that they had deep fried cheeseburgers on the menu. You have to know that this was not something I was going to pass on knowing that it was a cheat meal. We did do "the right thing", we shared. We had salad and water as our sides and drink. Not too too terrible. For breakfast, we ended up making it more of a brunch. We visited one of her hunky cousins at a new cafe where I not only had a sandwich, I ordered a chai and potato chips. All in all, not bad. I didn't expect to lose weight, but I was a bit shocked to see that I stayed the same. Not bad at all! I am sure it didn't hurt that we got a workout in. Hold on... let me rephrase that... we attempted a few times to get a workout in.
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