Day 8 - The Holidays begin...

Hello dear followers. I hope you all had as amazing a weekend as I did! I love the Halloween time of year! It means fun and excitement with friends and to me it kicks off the start of the Holiday season..the best time of the year!!! I will not lie, when it comes to the Holidays, I am a junkie and can't wait to see the lights, decorations, and music everywhere! But I also know that with the holidays comes the holiday food, and boy did I notice that the most this weekend.

Halloween was amazing for me. I dressed up for work and enjoyed handing out candy to all of the trick-or-treaters that showed up at our doorstep (the little ones are just sooo cute!). This year we got the big candy bars, so not only did it make us the 'cool' people on the block but it also prevented me from downing 3 or 4 of the candy bars while I was handing out the candy (it's harder to justify having 'just one' when the candy bars are big). And of course we had the Halloween party to go to on Saturday. Which I must say I looked adorable for! I dressed up as a 'naughty nurse' and my bf was a pimp. The party was filled with food and lots of drinks. I brought some Buffalo Chicken Wing dip...which for all of you non-Upstate New Yorkers is amazing (if not the healthiest) and is a great dip to bring to any party, so if any of you want the recipe let me know. So the dip went extremely well and I managed to not pig out on the food and alcohol and still have an amazing time with everyone. I was so excited!

Being able to enjoy Halloween without becoming a pig during the festivities gives me so much hope for being able to accomplish the same thing during the upcoming holidays. Because lets face it, the Holidays are the worst time of year for anyone trying to lose any sort of weight.

Weigh in tonight at my gym, wish me luck!!