Gluttony!

In my last post, I wondered if I could survive the weekend.

The answer is, "No."

Thursday went well.  I made it all the way to the end of the day, at which point my supposedly supportive dieting friend coerced me into a cupcake.  It actually gave me a really bad headache.

**Warning:  Non-diet ranting ahead.**
Friday wasn't much better, but I didn't want to be a funsucker.  My sister and I traveled to St. Louis (pronounced 'street louis' if you are my husband) to catch a free Offspring show, my most favoritist band ever.  EVER.  I have been to their shows before and it's usually a high-impact cardio work out.  I had an Amy's organic spinach pizza for lunch, and my sis and I shared a small pizza for dinner at the first available restaurant that had a table open in downtown STL.
We went to the show and I wanted to live-tweet during the experience for all of the ridiculous stupidity I saw... but it was a free show, so I guess I can't complain...?  I actually couldn't live-tweet because my phone sucks, so here are my observations and guidelines if you should ever decide to go to a punk-rock show:


1st Guideline:  Do your homework.
The Offspring is a great band.  They use a lot of profanity, which I like.
One lyric from the song 'Bad Habit':  "...[y]ou stupid dumbshit goddamn mother fucker!"
Don't get offended.
Also, when listening to a recording of a Nirvana song play while the show sets up, don't loudly comment how much you hate The Foo Fighters because they stole away Dave Grohl.  Are you f*cking kidding me?

2nd Guideline:  Understand your surroundings.
Don't bring your girlfriend (everyone hates the defensive boyfriend), and especially don't bring your 5 year old child to a punk rock concert and plan to safely stand in the front.  Even if you're not sure about The Offspring, do take note of the plethora of drunken college frat boys around and their intention to ignore the "NO MOSHING" signs.  There's a reason why everyone pushed you into the fence when the show started.  I don't mind moshing, but I got stuck next to over-protective-dumb mom who was screaming at everyone to stop standing near her and her small daughter. (Lady, I would love to move, but I am smashed against 20 other people who aren't moving.  I don't have a lot of options here.)  I ended up playing half-mosher/half-bodyguard by holding on to the metal fence and trying to push the crowd away from the 5 year old WHILE jumping around and singing along to every song.  I might not agree with the mother's choice, but I didn't want the kid to get hurt.  It's not fair your parent's are dumb.  At least she thanked me for helping.

3rd Guideline:  Don't show up if you're homeless.
The show was free.  Anyone could come in. There were two guys having a hell of a time during the opening band.  From my own observation, they looked a little rough.  And, they didn't really fit in with all of the...well, rich white people. Security escorted them out TWICE, and even I have no idea why.  They didn't do anything besides dance along with the music and smoke legal substances.  Whatever.

In the end, the band played for 1.5 hours, and if you read my 2nd guideline, you can understand that I had one hell of a cardio/upperbody workout.  I wasn't concerned about anything I ate Friday because concerts are great workouts!!!

Saturday and Sunday were another story.  Epic Fail.

Day 13, July 19, 2012
Breakfast:  One cranberry-nut Kind bar, one bag of almonds, coffee (QuickTrip breakfast!)

Lunch:  Iceberg lettuce, tomato, watermelon, banana.  (Debate clinic!)

Dinner:  Chicken sandwich sans cheese/sauce/bread, salad.  Newcastle. (Old Chicago!)

Late night snack:  Vanilla bean cupcake!  (AMC 30 Fork & Screen, and Trey Witt is a terrible influence.)

Day 14, July 20, 2012
Breakfast:  Water, red velvet cupcake. (Leftover from the night before, and my sugar headache frenzy just wanted food.  And it was just sitting there on the kitchen counter, beckoning me to enjoy it.)

Lunch:  Amy's Organic Individual Low-Sodium Spinach Pizza (was meant for Josh, but oh well.)

Dinner:  Half of a small cheese pizza and one coke. (Still combating the cupcake headache, caffeine helps.)

Workout:  One punk rock concert.

Day 15, July 21, 2012
Brunch:  Crepe with sausage, cheese, apple syrup and some weird spicy aioli sauce.  We went to a fancy pants restaurant in downtown STL.  Might not be Paleo, but it was fanTASTIC.

Dinner:  Royals game.  I shudder to share this:  Two turkey hotdogs with cheese, doritos, skinny girl margarita.  One vodka/soda once inside.  We made s'mores while waiting for the traffic to clear.  S'mores are my favorite, so of course I had one.

Day 15, July 22, 2012
Breakfast:  Slept through it.

Lunch:  Salad with chicken, avocado, tomato.  (Hooray!)

Dinner:  Papa John's pepperoni pizza.  (BOO!)
**This gave me the worst gut-ache.  Like, clutching my stomach and cradled in the fetal position in my bed.  Josh ate it too and because he's been so good with low-sodium, this meal gave him and awful headache.  Like, he had to go lay down in the basement where it's really cold and near a bathroom, because his migraines make him nauseous.  So much for our date night! :(

Day 16, July 23, 2012 (so far)
Breakfast:  Mixed green salad with mushrooms and one 'fried' egg (The pan was dry, but I don't know how else to describe it.)