Survived My Birthday!

My Birthday's have never been big hoopla's. As most birthday's are big Calorie buster's I have to say this year I did pretty good! Of course I was not worried/watching Calories like I am now. It's easy to restrain from overloading when your stomach isn't use to over indulging in food.

My husband took me out to dinner (panicked ALL day about this) at a Chinese restaurant I introduced him to back in the day when we were kidless. At that time he was not crazy about Chinese food but this restaurant changed his mind. So we took a long drive to North Phoenix and ate at the Flamingo Palace (best chinese food EVER)!

I was half tempted to order a cocktail, but I didn't. I knew my dinner was gonna be a Calorie buster so why increase it even more with alcohol. Now if the dinner was lower in Calorie I might have added a nice cocktail with my dinner. Just balancing!!!

I did eat until I was comfortable and then had them wrap everything else up to go! I have three days worth of left overs. This restaurant (and I think most Chinese restaurants) serve family style, so the portions are large. I use to have no problem finishing everything I ordered BUT NOT this time!

So the stress of my Birthday Dinners (Red Lobster - inlaws, and Flamingo Palace - DH) has passed! Thank God!! I can get back on track now!