Today is my birthday.  There were two major times today that I wanted to go way over my calories.  The first occurred in the morning when I was getting a coffee at Dunkin Donuts.  I really wanted the new Chips Ahoy donut, it looked amazing.  But I didn’t order one.  Then, tonight for my birthday (after working outside with my husband and finishing splitting the wood!!  YEA!), I made this awesome pan seared salmon dish and I had a diet gin and tonic.  Then I wanted another gin and tonic and ice cream.  I decided not to have either and I stayed completely within my calorie intake for the day.  Probably the first time on my birthday ever.  I am happy I was able to hold it together– especially because I have a fun date night scheduled tomorrow and I know I won’t be able to stay within my calories.

My husband bought me a fit bit for my birthday.  I love it.  It is awesome and it links right up to my fitness pal app.  It tells me how much calories I am burning for the day, counts my steps also.  It reflected on my fitness pal that I have an additional 200+ calories to eat today because of all of the work I had done.  However, I didn’t eat those extra calories because I think that is what has been helping me to lose the weight, especially on the days that I go over.  It helps make up for it.  But it was really neat to see how active I am and to see how much calories I burn in a day.  What a great gift.

I left work really early today and went with my mom and daughter to get pedicures.  Then I went to a picnic for my daughters end of the year preschool bash.  It was great.  I spoke with a bunch of moms and hung out while the kids had a great time.  We then came home and went swimming (before I went outside and split the rest of the wood with my husband).

It was a really nice birthday- and for the first time in my life it didn’t center around eating ice cream cake and a calorie laden dinner.  I just had fun– and it was wonderful.