$5 Steal

My MIL bought me the biggest watermelon I've ever laid eyes on from a roadside stand on her way back from vacation in Emerald Isle. It was only $5!! I have seriously eaten my weight in watermelon... and it has been SO good. Please don't tell me how much sugar is in watermelon, I probably don't want to know!

Low Low Mileage

Last week was the worst running week I’ve had in my short (8 months) running career. Instead of “worst”, I should say “lowest mileage by a bunch” running week because I definitely had some awful, horrible weeks when I was at the end of my weight loss and forcing myself to run 4 miles per day 7X a week… I didn’t like running at that point.

Last week I ran just shy of 4 miles… total! I ran more miles in my morning run Monday (6.7 miles) than I did in total last week. And I ran 3X last week… try not to laugh. Between the heat (I usually run after work at about 5:30pm) and moving my runs to the treadmill (we’re not really friends anymore) – it was a bad running week. I also got sick the day of my planned long run with a friend. Then the movie Twister replayed itself on our town Friday night (okay not quite, but seriously bad storm), so that cancelled my Saturday morning run. #Excuses. #Excuses.

But the good news is (unless my scale is broken) I did not suddenly gain 10lbs from a poor week of running. Even with some unhealthy eating (4^th of July picnic)… I couldn’t refuse those lemon bars! 

I also ate some of this awesome cake...

Oops, I ate this yummy cookie too!

Cupcake Loving

Friday before a 3 day weekend, this was exactly what we needed:









Of course I went for the fun-fetti. But had to take a pic of the pretty lemon cupcake!

I Gain 5lbs Just MAKING This...

I told you before I don't make a lot of the traditional dishes people love because I don't want mine to be compared to {insert name of mom, grandmother, aunt, etc.)'s version. But on Thanksgiving I decided to give a new Banana Pudding recipe a try... and I curse and praise that I did. This banana pudding rocks my world... my mouth loves it and my newly adapted healthy lifestyle hates it.

I will not make this dish unless I'm taking it to a party or having a group over... I force feed it to Andy if we have leftovers because I have NO willpower around this stuff. When I make it I lick the beaters, the bowl, the spoon, the counter... So there, I gave you fair warning before giving you this recipe that will give you love handles just looking at the dish.

AND I can't even take credit for the recipe. I'll just send you straight to the blog it came from.... but first let me give you my edits/tweaks/advice:

• I LOVE bananas, so I use 5-6 bananas. 
• USE a mixer when beating the cream cheese --- it doesn't show it or say it on the recipe, but do it. 
•  And go ahead, lick the bowl, you only live once.

Without further delay, here's the recipe: http://pearls-handcuffs-happyhour.blogspot.com/2010/06/momma-didnt-make-it-like-this.html

I've been wanting to try it with sour cream instead of cream cheese, but I just always happen to have extra cream cheese on hand and not sour cream {most likely due to the fact that Andy loves sour cream on everything...}.