I survived...

So I survived 14 days of South Beach Phase I diet.  Let me just put it out here in the beginning that I don't believe in diets, rather I did this to rid myself of my addiction to sweets and sugar and in the end, it really helped.  I did lose 13 pounds but the true test of this type of situation is if you can keep the weight off two weeks later, so hopefully I have good news to report. I am a firm believer in programs such as Weight Watchers where you learn skills to make changes to live a healthy lifestyle.  I lost my first 55 pounds on WW and am a serious believer in the program.

Back to the SB saga, though: The thing that was the most surprising to me was that I didn't miss cupcakes, chocolate, or wine as much as I missed good old fashioned cereal.  I am not really used to eating eggs for breakfast which I did for 14 days straight.  I made a delicious frittata which made it easier, but eggs are just not always the food I want when I wake up, however, I did learn that 2 hard boiled eggs kept me full straight to lunch.  Something to remember.

Back to normal life.  Last weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the opening gala for the National Symphony Orchestra with my good pal.  Renee Fleming and Ling Ling performed with the orchestra and they were both amazing.  Renee was completely beautiful and even though I was way, way up in the nosebleeds, she sounded lovely!  Here's a sweet pic of her that I got JUST before I was told to put my camera away, stat:

And one more of the prettiness!

Finally, one cupcake item to report.  After two weeks of no sweets, I told myself I could have a treat because if you never have any treats, sooner or later you will go bonkers and OD on treats.  When the Sweetbites treat van pulled up near work today, I went to get a cupcake as I had never tried theirs before.  I ordered a Red Velvet for $3 (cut it in half and gave the rest to a colleague, go me!) and ate it.  Okay, so the cake was delicious but the frosting was gross!  Instead of a deliciously creamy cream cheese frosting, I had some type of whipped frosting that tasted a little like cream cheese but mostly like Cool Whip.  Sick.  I will never have another Sweetbites cupcake, and this is reason 999,999 that Georgetown Cupcake still "takes the cake". And, for the record, I loved Georgetown Cupcake waaaaay before the show D.C. cupcakes! I am an original GC LOVER!

More later.  This weekend is the Crafty Bastards sale in D.C. and I couldn't be more excited!