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Weekend of Splurges..!
Saturday:
The school week's over, in fact, the year is over, and I just relaxed and reocvered over this weekend (although, oddly and ironically, I ended up spending most of the time this weekend with people from work!!!).
Woke up later than expected yesterday, and then rushed to get ready to attend my students' commencement (I was the designated faculty representative this year--and it was my first one as a faculty!)...It was almost poignant! Huge auditorium of academy-awards' like pomp and ceremony, excited families, beaming student faces, the beautiful graduation robes etc. (Below is a picture of some of my students and I).
Since there was very little time in the morning, I only had 1 string cheese, and then no food or water until about 5 pm or so! Came home and had a quick snack (can't remember what!), and then hurried off to pick up my car from the repair-shop, and then was off to a friend's mom's 60th birthday party!! Big fiesta with lots of food--Middle eastern and Indian (good, but salty and rich!)...drank some wine, had 2 pieces of cake, 1 other dessert, and the main dishes entailed some paneer curry, 3 samosas (!!), and a veggie lasagna (good!!)...for appetizers I had 1/2 a pita and some hummus etc....Thus, lot of food!!
Sunday:
Woke up late today, made a nice eggwhite + red pepper/mushroom/chives and goat cheese omelette, and then got ready and went to a graduation party of some students (hosted by one of the parents at their place)..didn't EAT much food-wise stuff there--some chips and some bean sprout salad..but again, had some dessert--a piece of chocolate cake, some tiramisu, and a glass or so of wine.
On the way home, I had a craving for some takeout (It's been a long time since I did this!)...My favorite Chinese place was closed--which should have been a sign! Instead, I stopped by at a Thai place (an old favorite, but knowing that I haven't liked stuff there recently, still didn't stop me from ordering there!). I also wanted to get a reference or point of comparison for some of the recent thai food I've been cooking...so I ordered Crazy noodles, and a tofu red curry with rice as a takeout.
The crazy noodles were no better than my drunken noodles--so nothing to learn there...and the red curry wasn't spectacular either! Yet another predictable disappointment!I finished the red curry and the small tub of rice. and had about 1/2 of the crazy noodles---so yeah, all in all, a LOT of food!!!
But I needed to get all this stuff out of my system today...tomorrow I start being serious about working out---work's over, my holidays have begun, all the partying is done, and now, just to hunker down and get serious about losing weight and gettting my research writing done!!!! I've already made an 8 am appointment with my gym-buddy tomorrow morning as an added incentive to getting back on track!
I got my TOTM today, so even that's going to be taken care of and out of the way....!
So, here's that pic...I already feel a little puffier--and need to get working on working out!!
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