Holy Cinnamon Roll Batman!

Hello Again, sorry its been so long since we’ve last chatted but I was bound and determined to get myself under a milestone weight before I cheated again.

The good news is I made it there yesterday and I totally wore my size 4 skinny jeans for the first time in a long time…

The bad news is after I cheated myself sick I am no longer there; but I did not cheat my skinny jeans into popping open at any point throughout the day so all is not lost!

Plus I had to cheat because if you deprive yourself completely your diet will NOT work.

Plus, the next time I went to negotiate with myself that I can wait a week for something delicious the little voice instead my head would be like “You’re a liar! EAT IT!” So I needed to live up to the promises I made to myself you see.

I’m sure you understand and have those voices too right? Of course you do.

Well let’s get don to business: The moment I walked down the stairs in the morning I saw it: The bowl full of peanut M&M’s my husband has insisted on us purchasing and putting right there on Sunday.

You better believe I had a mouth full before my poor dog even got let out in the morning.

But, the really exciting stuff didn’t happen until I got to work.

When I walked up to my desk that morning I was greeted with three items of sheer deliciousness… seriously, 3 glorious sweets just sitting on my desk waiting for me!

So to start off, I had last Wednesday through Friday off and on Wednesday a little bake sale came through the office and apparently my cube mates got a little carried away with the charitable goodies and bought more than they could finish themselves!

Therefore I got a bag of wonderful homemade puppy chow! I know… I love Puppy Chow!

Next my company hosted breakfast and cake pops on Friday for us. (I feel like you should know that we do get work done there, this much food and work sponsored snacking isn’t always the norm!)

But anyway, I asked a very reliable cube mate to grab me one and put it in my lunch Tupperware that I strategically cleaned on Tuesday afternoon before I left for the weekend and set it on her desk so she could fill it for me when until the glorious treats arrived!

The inside of the cake pop was incredibly moist white cake, and it had a thin layer of white chocolate around it, with little pearlized crunchy candies! So. Good.

Finally my awesome boss wanted to thank me for a job well done and offered to buy me lunch sometime.

“Just say when and where” he said.

So I did: “A Do-Biz Cinnamon Roll on Monday morning please.”

I did not expect him to get it for me and have it waiting on my desk when I walked in though! This is pretty much the best way ever to start a Monday morning.

Let me tell you why: This cute little lady runs this cute little shop called Do-Biz Cookies in the Downtown Des Moines Skywalk. Every morning I walk by her cheery little self and smell the absolutely amazing aroma of cinnamon rolls. I know. Serious. Temptation…

Every.

Day.

Anyway her cinnamon rolls are so intense, even though I’ve been walking by her for two years I have only had like 3 or 4 of these things. Because I can usually only eat about half of one until I end up in a sugar coma and then I have to sit back and sip some water until I can function as a human being again.

This is because she has this bucket of icing and she uses an ice-cream scoop to put a whole scoop of icing on top of each warm cinnamon roll. The icing is slightly chilled so it is a little thicker and when it hits the warm roll it melts all over it and squishes in between each little layer so when you go to eat it every bite is like eating the middle piece.

Ohmygosh it is absolutely amazing!

After a little light research I estimate this bad boy set me back about 1,000 calories. But it is so worth it and I've been craving one for about a month now!

So by about 11:30AM all of the above had been demolished.

Holy Crap I’m disgusting.

HAH. Then I decided to find myself a giant fountain diet coke to wash it all down and keep my feeling stuffed to the brim. Do you prefer fountain or bottled or canned pop? I personally think fountain Diet Coke is hands down one of the best things ever.

Finally we joined my in-laws for my husband’s grandma’s birthday party and joined in on some Bavarian Cream Chocolate Cake from the Machine Shed!

I didn’t take a picture of myself eating it so I thought you might enjoy this one. (Some of the great-grandchildren)

So given all of this extravagance I decided to knock out about 1,100 calories via a 3 mile after-dark walk with the pup and the rest on my treadmill while rocking out to Aerosmith!

What constant battle do you have with your little voices?