Cheese Cake Overload

At our Idaho Wedding Reception, we served Costco Cheese Cheesecake, with all sorts of fun toppings. Crushed reeses, oreos, strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, and cherry pie filling, caramel syrup and chocolate syrup. It was delicious. We planned for close to 75 people, so we bought 6 cheese cakes. Well 75 people did not show up. So by the end of the night we had only served 2 the 6 cheese cakes and part of a third. My aunt took home the partially eaten one, my mother took one home, and Brandon and I took home the other two.

For the past two weeks we have had Cheesecake every night for dessert, and I can honestly say that I am cheesecaked out! At first it was so delicious! I was stoked that I we had two whole cheese cakes to enjoy! HEAVENNN! By the time we finished the first one, I was starting to feel guilty that I was eating so much sugar every night, I looked up the calorie count of one itty bitty slice of it, and I was shocked that there were a whopping 440 calories per slice, that doesn't include the calories from the toppings I was putting on it too. This made me feel even more guilty. I told myself that we only had one more cheese cake left to go and then I would be good, andcould then  back away from the sugar for a while. About a quarter of the way through our second cheese cake, the glory and taste started to diminish. I began treating it like a chore... "oh, gotta eat our daily slice of cheese cake."  I would count the pieces left, and count how many days we had left to eat the delicious, delectible, desirable, cheesecake. "three more days, just three more days and then I can be good."

Well three days clicked down to two days and two turned into one. We ate our last two slices of cheesecake last night at 10:00 and we celebrated! No more darn cheese cake!

I now more fully understand what "everything in moderation" means. Before the the Idaho reception, before the two cheese cakes, and before our sugar overload, cheesecake was one of my most favorite desserts. I loved the taste of cheesecake. I looked for it on menues when I would go out to eat. Especially at the Cheesecake Factory. But after ingesting 16 pieces of cheese cake in a little over 2 weeks, I am here to say that I wont eat a piece of cheesecake for quite a while. I am so SICK of cheesecake, the thought of ingesting another piece about makes me gag.

"Everything In Moderation" AMEN!

Blahh!

I look forward to our apartment being cheesecake free. I look forward to dessert free meals for a while... yep really, I just said that.  I look forward to working out and burning off the (roughly) 7040 calories. I look forward to training for the Ragnar Relay, and I look forward to eating healthy and getting in the best shape of my life for summer!

Good riddance to you, cheesecake.

First Run of the Year

Last night, my husband (I finally get to call him that) Brandon and I went for our first outside run of the year. It was great! It wasn't raining which was so nice. I get so tired of the rain here in Washington. We have be curious about what trails are around our new little apartment, and so we set out on an adventure.

Right behind our apartment complex we found a little nature preserve, it is so cute. It has lots of trails throughout it. Being that we are in Washington, there are tons of trees and moss and thick foliage that cover the ground surrounding the trails. It makes running more enjoyable, not to mention I can escape the engine fumes of running on the main roads. While most of the trail is flat, every now and then there are hills. These are challenging, which is also nice because this summer Brandon and I are running in the Ragnar Relay. Which is why we decided to start running in the first place.

Because I just got married, and because the last couple weeks I have been soo busy with wedding stuff, I put my exercising on the back burner. Last night was the first time in three weeks that I had the opportunity to work out. And BOY oh BOY did my body feel it too. It is amazing to me how easy ones body can get out of routine and how out of shape it feels after just a few short weeks away from the gym.

I know that this week will be the hardest to get out of the way. But once I have it under my belt next week should be much easier, and the weeks to follow should increase in ease as well. I am excited to see the progress I will make. I am also equally excited to explore the new area around my apartments.