The Bachelorette Party

Busy.  Busy.  Busy.

My life has been a blur over the past few weeks!

Between 4^th of July weekend, my friend’s bachelorette party this past weekend

and now her wedding this coming weekend, July has disappeared before my eyes!

…Along with my good eating habits…ugh!

I have still been getting my runs in,

but my inner fat girl has been in charge when it comes to what has

been going in my mouth.

The day of the bachelorette party started out great!

I got my 9 mile run in bright and early and had a

super healthy smoothie for breakfast (thanks to

my awesome sister Emma!)

The itinerary for the day was to meet at the bride’s sister’s house

and take a party bus to a Detroit Tiger’s game.

Any time there is a party bus involved,

you know you’re in trouble!

After the 2 hour drive to the maid of honor’s house

I was starving!

I don’t know how it is for everyone else, but on long run days,

I feel like I am constantly hungry!

This unfortunately, was one of those days.

Lucky for me, Libby had a very healthy spread of food laid out

and she is also gluten free, so she actually had food I could eat!

There was a wonderful berry salad,

A veggie tray with hummus and a delicious herbed cheese,

and a cheese platter with yummy hard cheeses.

The signature drinks were Moscow Mules.

If you have never had one, you best be trying them this weekend!

I will put the recipe at the bottom of the page.

There were also panty shaped cookies with pink icing…

I avoided the cookies obviously because being gluten challenged like I am,

I cannot eat anything yummy.

I was eyeing the cookies all afternoon thinking to myself,

“just one cookie won’t hurt, right?”

Then my better sense would kick in…

“of course one cookie will hurt you, idiot!”

UGH!

But then someone made the mistake of informing me that the cookies were

GLUTEN FREE!

That’s when everything went to hell.

I probably ate 10 cookies!

I’ve never been that person who can just eat one cookie.

For those of you who can, I hate you!

But apparently when I am denied cookies for so long

I eat them in excess….

My friend even put cookies in her purse so I would not be tempted

by gluten at the game.

I’m still laughing about this!

Well her plan didn’t work.

I don’t know what inning it was, but I was so hungry I was about to eat my arm off!

After numerous adult beverages,

all logical judgment went out the window…

I grabbed a friend who was not very aware of my gluten situation,

and we snuck off in search of food.

All I wanted all day was a hot dog.

Yuck, I know, but a hot dog is a must at a baseball game!

I ate the hot dog, bun and all!

It was glorious!

The feeling of a rock sitting in my stomach,

that I am still experiencing 3 days later,

is not glorious... ugh…

Being gluten free is hard work!

Everyone has some hiccups like this right?

I just have to learn from my mistakes

and remember how crappy I feel after making them.

I must remember this when they bring out the cake

at the wedding next weekend!

How do you stick to your diet in situations like this?

How do you get back on track after long weekends like this?