"Eat All The Sweets" - A 30 Day Tale of Love & Happiness

I did it! I'm over calories because I don't log burns on lifting days, and my macros are a mess, but I wanted to try the other flavor of the rice pudding. I liked the taro better than the black-eyed pea, but I won't get it again because it was impossible to log. Sorry about the picture size, I'm not online to fix it. Next time I'll try the taro smoothie. It's purple.

Day 1 - chocolate cupcake at the soccer tailgate, lemon chill frozen thing
Day 2 - 1 square Good & Delish Lemon and Black Pepper dark chocolate
Day 3 - Wendy's Frosty waffle cone, a couple of mini Hostess powdered sugar donuts
Day 4 - m&ms
Day 5 - Starbucks vanilla macchiato, graham cracker, and 1 Ghirardelli Intense Dark Chocolate Toffee Interlude square
Day 6 - Godiva dark chocolate almonds, a cupcake, and a rice krispy treat
Day 7 - vanilla cappuccino, chocolate chip cookies
Day 8 - hot tamales and 1 Ghirardelli Intense Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Heaven square
Day 9 - 1 square Good & Delish Good Knight dark chocolate
Day 10 - graham crackers, 1 square Good & Delish MidKnight dark chocolate, and half of an iced baseball cookie from Panera
Day 11 - the other half of the baseball cookie, gummy bears, and a hazelnut macchiato
Day 12 - 4 squares of Ghirardelli dark chocolate with sea salt caramel, regular root beer
Day 13 - Hunt's vanilla pudding cup, too many taste tests of homemade buttercream frosting for the cake for my son's birthday party, lemon cream povitica
Day 14 - birthday party day! English walnut povitica, cake, rice krispy treats, Swedish fish, and licorice. Yeah, an overage day for sure.
Day 15 - lemon cream povitica
Day 16 - 3 Keebler Deluxe Graham cookies, a hazelnut macchiato, and a serving of Talenti Hazelnut
Day 17 - twizzlers, a few bites of a brownie sundae at my kiddo's birthday dinner, and chocolate pb2 on graham crackers
Day 18 - twizzlers, homemade sugar cookie
Day 19 - two squares Good & Delish MidKnight dark chocolate...not my favorite by far, but this bar that my husband bought for me is finally gone, so I feel like I can go buy some that I really do like. Also, a serving of Bolthouse Farms's Salted Caramel Latte

Day 20 - a square of Ghirardelli dark chocolate with sea salt caramel and a mini salted caramel shake

As a big soccer fan, and someone who keeps waiting for the predictions I've heard all my life to come true ("Soccer is really about to take off here in the States - we finally have enough youngsters who played becoming adults who love the game and will watch live and on TV") -- I am happy to see you at a game and at the same tie depressed to see how empty the stands are across from you, even on a weekday!

In our defense, that was like an hour before the game. But LA on a weekday usually looks pretty sparse. Traffic prevents a lot of fans from getting out to the stadium on a weeknight. Check out attendance for Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders however. Even midweek they rock their stadium. Weekend games in LA are usually 26k+. MLS attendance is becoming comparable to NHL attendance.

We seem to be getting that "take off" here in KC, FINALLY. It's been amazing to see the difference a few years has made. Last I heard, Sporting's sold out more than 40 straight home games - I didn't happen to catch the attendance numbers tonight.
(And wow, that cinnabon roll looks good!)

Since I never seem to remember to take pictures of my sweets, I'll derail us even further into MLS talk, and share a couple shots I took at tonight's SKCvTOR game instead to make Cortelli feel better about attendance. Sadly (?), no stadium food for me to photograph tonight - I'd filled up too well on a really good burger before the game.

Forced to take a hiatus due to some severe stomach issues that are making it hard to eat at all, let alone eat sweet stuff right now. Hopefully be back to finish up when not in pain.

Oh no... sure hope you're feeling much better soon! :flowerforyou:

Forced to take a hiatus due to some severe stomach issues that are making it hard to eat at all, let alone eat sweet stuff right now. Hopefully be back to finish up when not in pain.

Feel better soon! It's not the same without the addition of your food porn! I mean pics. Pics, dammit! :bigsmile:

Day 19: a pastry this morning - not sure what it was called... like a croissant with big sugar crystals on the outside and a custardy filling . . .

That's going to be, generically, a "brioche" or in your case with filling a "brioche con crema" -- or generically a croissant of some sort and you just want to say "Mi da una brioche, per piacere?" pointing to the one you want.

I am going to be in Rome for a week or so in less than a month's time and I am already looking forward to stumbling out into the streets in the AM after dealing with jet lag, and finding the nearest bar for a "brioche" and a "café" (and then also finding the same place for a "rosso" sometime later in the morning :flowerforyou: )

Day 14 Peanut butter cookies (2 spoonfuls of dough, 2 finished products), lebkuchen (German Christmas cookie - 2) before I realised the icing mixture I used to glaze the lebkuchen contained gluten ... feeling a little sorry for myself right now

Lebkuchen


Peanut butter cookies (so soft and chewy!)

Sorry if you are experiencing any reactions from gluten . . . but the pictures . . . NOM!

(And thrilled that you see the cleanse as a way to both enjoy and control sweet consumption - glad you joined LolBS's fantastic experiment / demonstration!)

Day 1: Some amount of Cadbury caramel eggs. I think two.
Day 2: A similar amount of Cadbury cream eggs.
Day 3: Some PB and chocolate chips.
Day 4: Half a serving of Cadbury Caramello chocolate. I see a preference...
Day 5: A FULL serving of the Cadbury Caramello chocolate.
Day 6: Two servings of chocolate covered peanuts.
Day 7: My birthday is on Tuesday, so celebrated a bit last night with a birthday cake shot, 5 oz of Makers, some Angry Orchard, and a brownie sundae from Denny's.
Day 8: Two scoops of gelato from a nearby ice cream parlor. White chocolate Nutella, and Almond Joy. SO. DAMN. TASTY. Oh, and one serving of a Milk Chocolate with Hazelnut chocolate bar from Safeway. Was actually very yummy.
Day 9: Half a serving of the Milk Chocolate with Hazelnut bar and cake!
Day 10: One square of chocolate and some Nutella cookie dough.
Day 11: Birthday ice cream sandwich with Nutella cookies!
Day 12: Peanut butter cookie ice cream sandwich.
Day 13: One serving of strawberry ice cream and a peanut butter cookie.
Day 14: Was lame, I had Famous Amos cookies and regretted those. Later I went to a concert and grabbed a mini banana nut muffin from Coffee Bean, it was okay. Disappointing sugar day. Wah
Day 15: 1.5 servings of strawberry ice cream with .5 serving of Cadbury milk chocolate. Then to make up for yesterday I went to Starbucks and got an iced chai tea latte.
Day 16: Gonna have a serving of the Cadbury milk chocolate. It was so yummmyyy.
Day 17: Rest of the Cadbury bar.
Day 18: Under calories yesterday, went over calories today with a Cinnabun. At the LA Galaxy game and it was calling me.
Day 19: Finished off the hazelnut chocolate.

Day 20: Two pieces of Ghiradelli Milk & Hazelnut chocolate crisp, a small crumb cake, 1.5 servings of Dreyer's vanilla bean ice cream, and a coconut paleta.

Sorry if you are experiencing any reactions from gluten . . . but the pictures . . . NOM!

(And thrilled that you see the cleanse as a way to both enjoy and control sweet consumption - glad you joined LolBS's fantastic experiment / demonstration!)

Yeah, the side-effects of gluten aren't that pleasant ... but on the bright side it's stopped me from eating any more of those cookies! Only a little over my calories for the day since I've stopped eating the cookies, but overall the week is still good (and I lost weight this week too, to put me in my maintenance range again - YAY!)

Glad you like the pictures - I love baking ... and eating the dough ... and the finished products!

Day 20: 2 chocolate mousse Peeps :happy:

Wait, that's a thing?

::: googles :::

Whoa... Mind = blown...

I was wondering about that, too, but didn't get a chance to google. That would make me happy.

chocolate mousse peeps; enough already! *checks the Salted Caramel* uh oh....almost out; store run!

Breakfast this morning:

Breakfast this morning:

Same here, but only 2 of them (plus other things).

Breakfast this morning:

Oooooooooh...
Must get to double Krav class this morning.

Day 1 - chocolate cupcake at the soccer tailgate, lemon chill frozen thing
Day 2 - 1 square Good & Delish Lemon and Black Pepper dark chocolate
Day 3 - Wendy's Frosty waffle cone, a couple of mini Hostess powdered sugar donuts
Day 4 - m&ms
Day 5 - Starbucks vanilla macchiato, graham cracker, and 1 Ghirardelli Intense Dark Chocolate Toffee Interlude square
Day 6 - Godiva dark chocolate almonds, a cupcake, and a rice krispy treat
Day 7 - vanilla cappuccino, chocolate chip cookies
Day 8 - hot tamales and 1 Ghirardelli Intense Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Heaven square
Day 9 - 1 square Good & Delish Good Knight dark chocolate
Day 10 - graham crackers, 1 square Good & Delish MidKnight dark chocolate, and half of an iced baseball cookie from Panera
Day 11 - the other half of the baseball cookie, gummy bears, and a hazelnut macchiato
Day 12 - 4 squares of Ghirardelli dark chocolate with sea salt caramel, regular root beer
Day 13 - Hunt's vanilla pudding cup, too many taste tests of homemade buttercream frosting for the cake for my son's birthday party, lemon cream povitica
Day 14 - birthday party day! English walnut povitica, cake, rice krispy treats, Swedish fish, and licorice. Yeah, an overage day for sure.
Day 15 - lemon cream povitica
Day 16 - 3 Keebler Deluxe Graham cookies, a hazelnut macchiato, and a serving of Talenti Hazelnut
Day 17 - twizzlers, a few bites of a brownie sundae at my kiddo's birthday dinner, and chocolate pb2 on graham crackers
Day 18 - twizzlers, homemade sugar cookie
Day 19 - two squares Good & Delish MidKnight dark chocolate...not my favorite by far, but this bar that my husband bought for me is finally gone, so I feel like I can go buy some that I really do like. Also, a serving of Bolthouse Farms's Salted Caramel Latte

Day 20 - a square of Ghirardelli dark chocolate with sea salt caramel and a mini salted caramel shake

As a big soccer fan, and someone who keeps waiting for the predictions I've heard all my life to come true ("Soccer is really about to take off here in the States - we finally have enough youngsters who played becoming adults who love the game and will watch live and on TV") -- I am happy to see you at a game and at the same tie depressed to see how empty the stands are across from you, even on a weekday!

In our defense, that was like an hour before the game. But LA on a weekday usually looks pretty sparse. Traffic prevents a lot of fans from getting out to the stadium on a weeknight. Check out attendance for Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders however. Even midweek they rock their stadium. Weekend games in LA are usually 26k+. MLS attendance is becoming comparable to NHL attendance.

We seem to be getting that "take off" here in KC, FINALLY. It's been amazing to see the difference a few years has made. Last I heard, Sporting's sold out more than 40 straight home games - I didn't happen to catch the attendance numbers tonight.
(And wow, that cinnabon roll looks good!)

Since I never seem to remember to take pictures of my sweets, I'll derail us even further into MLS talk, and share a couple shots I took at tonight's SKCvTOR game instead to make Cortelli feel better about attendance. Sadly (?), no stadium food for me to photograph tonight - I'd filled up too well on a really good burger before the game.

I'm originally from KC (live in STL now) and was going to mention Sporting KC earlier in the thread when I saw the comment about MLS not taking off. I haven't been to a game but it is on my list for when we visit in the next year or so.

Day 1: French toast topped with Jeni's banana + honey ice cream
Day 2: Ben & Jerry's Milk & Cookies ice cream, and Speculoos Cookie & Cocoa Swirl in Greek yogurt.
Day 3: Chocolate peanut butter Pop Tart with Edy's Slow Churned Peanut Butter Cup ice cream, two Trader Joe's sea salt & turbinado sugar dark chocolate almonds, Speculoos Cookie & Cocoa Swirl in Greek yogurt.
Day 4: Talenti Sicilian Pistachio gelato for breakfast. 2 TJ's sea salt & turbinado sugar dark chocolate almonds, and 4 pieces of Brookside dark chocolate covered goji berries tonight.
Day 5: 2 TJ's sea salt & turbinado sugar dark chocolate almonds, my last chocolate peanut butter Pop Tart with Edy's slow churned peanut butter cup ice cream sandwich, and tonight I'll have a serving of Speculoos Cookie & Cocoa Swirl cookie butter in my Greek yogurt and a spoonful of Jeni's sweet potato with torched marshmallow ice cream. *giggity*
Day 6: One spoonful (13g) of Talenti banana chocolate swirl this morning (still tastes like baby food bananas, but I'm not complaining!), and a serving of Turkey Hill Dutch Chocolate ice cream.
Day 7: So far I've had 2 TJ's dark chocolate almonds, 4 Brookside dark chocolate goji berries, and French toast with 94g of Jeni's bananas + honey ice cream.
Day 8: My daughter made me pancakes for breakfast, and I poured a little Hershey's syrup on a couple. At lunch I had strawberry pretzel salad, a small piece of chocolate raspberry birthday cake, and an even smaller piece of white cake with buttercream frosting.
Day 9: Finished off the Edy's peanut butter cup (98g) for breakfast. I mean, really, could I let 32g of ice cream sit in that big container all alone?
Day 10: 2 TJ's dark chocolate almonds, 4 Brookside dark chocolate goji berries, 2 small pancakes with chocolate syrup, finished off B&J's Milk & Cookies, and Speculoos Cookie & Cocoa Swirl in Greek yogurt.
Day 11: Talenti Sicilian Pistachio for breakfast, and a bit of the Safeway honey vanilla praline frozen Greek yogurt, and a Snickers ice cream bar.
Day 12: 2 TJ's sea salt & turbinado sugar dark chocolate almonds, and I finished up the 147g of Steve's NOLA Coffee & Donuts ice cream, just to be done with it.
Day 13: Two TJ's sea salt & turbinado sugar dark chocolate almonds and Steve's Southern Banana Pudding ice cream.
Day 14: Rice pudding with black eyed peas and coconut milk, avocado bubble tea smoothie, and a Forte ginger protein gelato.
Day 15: 2 TJ's sea salt and turbinado sugar dark chocolate almonds, 4 Brookside dark chocolate goji berries, my first ever fried Oreo, 44g of Turkey Hill Dutch Chocolate ice cream (RIP), 17g of Turkey Hill Box of Chocolates ice cream (not bad for first taste) and 8g of Nesquik chocolate powder in my Greek yogurt.
Day 16: 2 TJ's dark chocolate almonds, 2 Brookside dark chocolate goji berries, 102g of Talenti Banana Chocolate Swirl.
Day 17: 2 TJ's dark chocolate almonds, 4 Brookside dark chocolate goji berries, 100g of Talenti Sicilian Pistachio
Day 18: One serving of Safeway blueberry vanilla cheesecake Greek frozen yogurt.
Day 19: 2 servings of Edy's Slow Churned Drumstick ice cream. Still thinking about that avocado bubble tea smoothie.
Day 20: 2 TJ's dark chocolate almonds, 4 Brookside dark chocolate gojis, and avocado bubble tea smoothie, and rice pudding with taro and coconut milk.
Day 21: 2 TJ's dark chocolate almonds, 4 Brookside dark chocolate gojis, and French toast made with Martin's potato slider rolls topped with 1/2 serving of Jeni's roasted strawberries and buttermilk ice cream. (see avatar) The strawberry stood out better than the bananas + honey did. I'm going to a graduation party later, so there might be something else.