Day 111

General Conference was this weekend and typically we just watch the Sunday morning session. Most of the time it's because we're busy with things on Saturday and honestly forget, because on a Saturday night right before bed we think about what time we need to wake up, setting our alarm clocks for the next day and realize, oh, it's Conference. This weekend didn't go like that because we were planning on a Conference and appetizer extravaganza on Sunday with SIL and BIL, but as my last post says, we actually needed to do things during the day taking up our Saturday conference time. I would like to see a Saturday session for once in my life, lol, so hopefully I can be more diligent in that come April.

Luckily we have a TiVo type appliance that I always refer to as TiVo since everyone knows what that is and I don't have to explain was a PVR is; plus it's not as cool to say, "I PVR'd something" as it is to say, "I TiVo'd it." PVR=personal video recorder. As I was saying, luckily we were able to TiVo Conference allowing me to make my TRX
(http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/reallife/story.html?id=eff17460-6d18-4dd4-8ab1-b3fb987e3665) class at the gym. I love love love the TRX. By the end of 45 minutes, I'm so drenched in sweat and my muscles are so shaky that this morning I started involuntarily crying. Who does that?! I don't know what happened, but at the end, I realized I'm finally done and I did it. I did everything, every rep, everything. It wasn't obvious to anyone else because we were all crying from every sweat pour, and everyone's face was as beet red as the next, but for a second I had real tears. This workout is so intense.

Anyway, so I got home and showered, and we finished up all of our last minute food preparations, and then buffet time ensued. SIL and BIL brought over the yummiest spinach dip with bread, and delicious chicken wrapped in chili and brown sugar bacon. Mouth watering. Andrew and I provided tiny pizzas, veggies and dip, deviled eggs (of course), and a fruit salsa with homemade cinnamon chips. I love appetizer days! Who doesn't love a buffet from the comfort of your own home? We finished Conference and then moved on to continue watching Season One of Heros that we're slowly picking away at, episode by episode. At this point, I'm hooked and at the end of each episode, we're always craving more. We borrowed one DVD to catch up on last week because of course, SIL and BIL couldn't wait for us, so we had 5 or 6 to watch within that week. It took us all of Monday night to catch up! Andrew got home from work and we watched all the episodes until bed. So productive, I know, but so worth it!

This whole weekend was about family and food. What could be better?

Meals
1 English muffin pizza: 1 English muffin, 1 tbsp pizza sauce, 2 thin slices back bacon, 2 tsp pineapple, 2 tbsp mozza and cheddar cheese
3 bacon wrapped chicken pieces--bite size
3 deviled eggs
1/2 cup cucumber
2 tbsp sour cream dip
1/3 cup fruit salsa
1 flour tortilla with cinnamon sugar (cinnamon chips)
approx 3/4 cup ripped bread
1/3 cup spinach dip
5 all dressed chips
2 cups of water

2 chocolate chip cookies
2 cups of water

4 English muffin pizzas
2 all dressed chips
2 deviled eggs
3 chocolate chip cookies
4 cups of water

1 A&W cream soda

Exercise
45 minute TRX class

Notes:
-As much food as I had, it was a struggle not to eat twice that amount. I had my one plate, and didn't go back for more. It was so delicious, but after seeing how many dips, sugars, and fats were on the table, I felt kind of guilty that I had just done this amazing workout and now I was going to feed myself silly. I so wanted to eat 2 or 3 plates worth, but the one plate I had was so good and I ate it slowly enough that it did the job. My mouth is watering thinking about those bacon wrapped chicken bites. mmmmm