Birthday party and temptation!

So today was my adopted neices 1st birthday party! I finished the 500 cal diet just in time and slaved all afternoon into the evening hours making cupcakes for the party. Amy's sister was making their smash cakes (large cupcakes) and I offered to make regular cupcakes for everyone else instead of having a cake. So, I made homemade chocolate with chocolate buttercream, pink and purple colored vanilla with vanilla buttercream, and strawberry with strawberry buttercream made with fresh strawberries. I did so well making them...didn't even snitch a taste which is hard when you are baking. You want to make sure it tastes good but I trusted my awesomness LOL!

I had already told myself I would allow myself to have 1 cupcake to celebrate their birthday. After Jesse came up to me saying how good the chocolate cupcakes were, I decided I had to have one. I had already said I would have a strawberry one but blew that out of the water at the thought of having chocolate. Oh man it was sooo good-very sweet but good all the same. I haven't had sugar in months so it was really sweet. So I went about my business but saw the cupcakes everywhere I turned. I caved and had a stawberry cupcake after I saw Cohen devouring his. It was even better than the chocolate! Or maybe that was because I had been dreaming about the strawberry cupcakes..that must be it.

After eating the second cupcake, I got really really thirsty and drank 3 bottles of water in minutes. Hmmm..weird. The party was nearing the end and we started packing up. Then it hit me. I started feeling weird. Not sick but like my body was almost going into shock. Have you ever had a carb overload? Or that feeling you get after eating Thanksgiving dinner. You just feel sluggish and tired? Yeah..that was me after the cupcake.

It got worse.

By the time we were driving home, I was SICK! My tummy was aching, I started to get a slight headache, and I just generally didn't feel good at all! As much as I hated the feeling, I'm sort of glad it happened. I seem to keep thinking about all the food I "can't" have: cookies, cake, fettucini alfredo, taco's, all things Mexican and Italian. It's almost as if I needed to get it out of my system and now that I've seen what it does? No thanks! Am I giving up all "bad" food? NO WAY! But I am well aware of how I feel when I eat well: I don't think about food all the time, I have an overall good feeling, I have more energy and I just feel better. I used to eat so much junk, I was in a constant state of not feeling "well" and I don't like it now that I've seen the other side!