Heaven on a plate

This past weekend is going to be kissed up to God but what a fantastic weekend!

As I mentioned Tom and I went to NY to celebrate my sisters 21st birthday.

The weekend was especially awesome because I got to spend time with my entire family. All of us in one place! We drank a lot of good beer and excellent wine (I reccommend Layer Cake Malbec-YUM!) and the food... Oh. My. God. we ate some amazing food.

I have to talk about the food. We went to The Stanton Station, which was designed as a tapas bar serving style, and I think we ate almost everything on the menu. I can't even list what we ate because we had so many things, but if any of you ever find yourself in the East Village you MUST try this place and order the French Onion Soup Dumplings and the Chicken Cashew Spring Rolls. SO YUMMY and the inspiration for this blog title.

Anyway, as I stated I wasn't going to expect miracles this weekend and my goal was to maintain. Honestly, I have not gotten on the scale yet - mostly out of fear - but starting now I am getting back on track.

On my ride home this morning I was starting to feel guilty about my indulgent weekend. Real self defeating talk. However, when I got home and checked my facebook there was a message waiting for me from this fabulous woman, KS. I took out some of your personal notes (as some of us may not want all our business out there) But she wrote:

I just wanted to let you know that I'm one of your silent blog readers and wanted you to know that you are absolutely inspiring!....and reading your blog every day has seriously helped me to stay motivated.... you have really helped to put this all into perspective so I want to thank you. You've made me reflect on the journey so far and have reminded me not to get down on myself...but rather to pat myself on the back and give myself a break. This is hard work and we deserve to relish in the moment rather than stress over the future....I hope you're SUPER proud of yourself for setting such awesome realistic goals and for really changing the way you feel about yourself. You are one awesome lady!

This was just...so grounding and helpful. It's like it came at the perfect time for me to not our get down on myself (for a weekend I planned!) and to get back on the horse. Thank you KS!

Also, KS has been working on her own journey and has made some major accomplishments - so congrats on your own successes and keep up all your hard work! From your pictures (and what JW tells me) you look awesome!

Shout out goes to KS for...well everything you did for yourself and what you did for me today!

Scuba starts today!

Making up for some missed exercise tomorrow!

Love!
-K