Randy's Ballooniacs Late Night Birthday Binge - 214 extra calories. OY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY, RANDY!  OMG!  My dear friend had a little birthday party last night.  Randy has a business called BALLOONIACS and he makes these huge balloon sculptures and installs them!  He's really quite extraordinary when it comes to balloon designs.  But you would think that when he's off the job he would put the balloons to rest!  Oh noooooo!  Not our Randy!  So while everyone was drinking and having a great time, Randy was twisting balloons.  I was sipping on water and eyeballing the pistachios.

Now, I had already had my one snack of the day by then, but at midnight those pistachios were looking pretty good.  So I had 10.  Very carefully I counted them out and placed them on my napkin.

Then the sugar-free 15 calorie popsicles appeared, and I ate one of those, too.  Plus a bite of someone else's other flavor.  20 calories tops.

I did manage to avoid the birthday cake.  And the brownies.  And my favorite salt and pepper potato chips. OH  MY   GAWWWDDDDDDD!!   I love those things.  But I didn't even lick the salt and pepper off of one single chip, and I didn't sniff any of the other gorgeous crappy alluring foods that are the.....ENEMY!

What I did do was eat those two extra snacks at the party (popsicle and pistachios).  Then I passed out for about 20 minutes.

When I got home after 1:00am, instead of going straight to bed, I raided the fridge.  I don't know why I did that, but the first thing I did when I got in the apartment was I opened the fridge and starting hunting for something to eat.  I didn't know what I was looking for (and thank G-d I had removed ALL carby contriband from the house!) so there was really nothing to eat.  Except....I have pistachios and almonds and Medifast crackers and sugar-free popsicles!!

Before I knew it, I was pulling out the pistachios and ate two handfuls.  Then, as if that wasn't enough, I ate four hard boiled egg whites.  And I had another package of crackers with my delicious fake butter smeared on them!  And then, as if that wasn't enough, I ate a bag of Medifast cereal in bed.  By the time I was finished, I congratulated myself on not eating anything OFF the Medifast program, and then quickly reprimanded myself for eating all that stuff so late at night, and of course, eating it while being so out of control.

My rational mind took over this morning!!  Since it was already past midnight and we were on to a new day, I counted ONE handful of pistachios toward today's snack, and I counted the cereal as my first meal.  I counted the fake butter as my two fats (plus one extra). I counted the egg whites toward the protein I can eat today.  I still can have 10 more egg whites today!  WHOO HOO!!  Too bad for me because I wanted chicken salad for lunch...oh well...

All in all, Randy's Birthday Bash Binge cost me an extra:
1 fat           (80 calories)
4 snacks     (69 pistachios calories, 15 popsicle calories, and 50 Medifast cracker calories_
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equals an extra 214 calories

DAMMIT.  214 is 214.  And that's not getting me any closer to my targeted number of 1-6-0!

But at least it's less calories than even ONE piece of birthday cake, right?!