DAY FIFTEEN - JUNE 17TH
Well kiddies, today is Father's Day. While some of you may express caution, today my brother and myself took my father out to breakfast at the notorious IHOP. I had weighed myself today and clocked in at around 177. While I recognized the increase in weight, I sort of looked at this as just being a brief break before going into exercise mode starting tomorrow.
At IHOP, while I expected I would get the Stuffed French Toast, I instead fell in love with the new Red Velvet Cupcakes. WHAT! Hell yes! See, I sort of have a history with Red Velvet food items. I cannot remember when/where, but at one point I enjoyed something that was in Red Velvet form (probably cake) immensely. Red is one of my favorite colors (and flavors), so this seemed quite fitting. After this discovery, I decided to have a red velvet cake for my birthday. After ordering it and picking it up a few days later on my birthday, my family and I together ate this red velvet cake. Now, before this, none of my family members had experienced red velvet the way I had, or even at all. I may have been hyping up this new delicious commodity before we started eating the dessert. After a few minutes, I think I was the first to admit that the cake was, well, cake flavored. What could I say? It tasted like cake. It didn't seem to have any flavor. After I admitted this, my parents and brother sort of admitted the same thing. We finished this cake and couldn't even really enjoy it for what it SHOULD have been. Since then, I have felt like I was crazy for talking up this red velvet craze that apparently had no flavor to it. There was even another event quite some time after this that I found a red velvet cupcake at 7-11, bought it, brought it home, and tried to let my mom have some. Again, no flavor. The only time I really found it to have flavor was in a Ben and Jerry's ice cream, but I wasn't about to prove my sanity by buying a container of this stuff. I even went as far as to look up what this flavor tasted like and how it was made. Apparently it's a spin-off of chocolate?
So here we are, in IHOP, with the new Red Velvet Pancakes staring me in the face. No question this is what I would be getting. In the picture, it showed just two pancakes and came with a possible side order of a mixture of eggs, hash browns, bacon, and/or sausage. Trying to enjoy myself at IHOP (no one goes there to eat healthy!), and not being a huge fan of their eggs, I decided to just get the pancakes with a side of bacon. When the waitress would return, the stack was actually five pancakes and featured cream cheese topping. Five strips of bacon. This is also including the flavors of syrup that were on the side. (BRING BACK BOYSENBERRY!) However, I still was mindful of my new healthier lifestyle... so I got a water.
After this glorious meal, we got home, went to church, came back home, and had dinner a few hours later, which was the leftover lasagna from Friday night. I had Arizona Iced Tea once again, deciding that this drink would not follow me into the following week. After this, we enjoyed the left over Ice Cream, Pound Cake, Cool HwHip (Family Guy reference, not a typo), and Strawberries. The night was topped off with Orange Strawberry Banana Juice with Vodka.
While this was a bit of a splurge, having two big events within a three-day period, I will be finding a good workout so that I get in better shape and knock my weight back down. I've decided to use my stationary bike, push-ups, and sit-ups for the coming week, and then start the P90X the following week. Since this whole experiment seems to be just about finished, aside from a few highlights and whatnot, I think this topic has run its course. There seems to be little left to write about at this point, aside from what I've eaten and subtle ways that this has affected me. All of the things I've eaten this weekend made me feel like this was what normal was, but I know that I cannot continue eating this way. It was a bonus. My taste buds have even gotten over the "new" food. So, I think I'm done with this. Thanks for reading about this crazy fifteen day quest of mine.
STATS:
Weight: 177
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