Week Three: results

NO GAIN!! Also.. no loss. :( BUT.. for how I ate this week I am NOT complaining. A wedding, GS Cookies, and then Fat Tuesday!! For those who don't know, Fat Tuesday is "Paczki Day" in Michigan.

A Paczki is a GIGANTIC custard or jelly filled donut and is a Polish tradition.

From wikipedia:

In Poland, pączki are eaten especially on Fat Thursday (the last Thursday before Ash Wednesday). Many Polish Americans celebrate Pączki Day on Fat Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday). The traditional reason for making pączki was to use up all the lard, sugar, eggs and fruit in the house, because their consumption was forbidden by Catholic fasting practices during Lent.
In the large Polish community of Chicago, and in other large cities across the Midwest, Pączki Day is celebrated annually by immigrants and locals alike. In Buffalo, Toledo, Cleveland, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee, South Bend, and Windsor, Pączki Day is more commonly celebrated on Fat Tuesday instead of Fat Thursday. Chicago celebrates the festival on both Fat Thursday and Fat Tuesday, due to its sizable Polish population. Chicagoans also often eat pączki on Casimir Pulaski Day.
In Hamtramck, Michigan, an enclave of Detroit, there is an annual Pączki Day (Shrove Tuesday) Parade,^[4] which has gained a devoted following. In the Metro Detroit area, it is so widespread throughout the region that many bakeries have line-ups for pączki on Pączki Day.^[5] The Pączki Day celebrations in some areas are even larger than many celebrations for St. Patrick's Day.^{[citation needed]} In some areas Pączki Day is celebrated with pączki-eating contests. The eating contest in Evanston, Illinois, started in 2010, and is held on the weekend before Fat Tuesday, while Hamtramck's contest is held on the holiday.





If you want to know more... click HERE So, being Michiganders... we OF COURSE had to celebrate! I ate one (ok, I ate two.. but I regretted the second one almost immediately). 

This week though.... I WILL be better. It helps that I think I'm coming down with the flu or something. Nothing like a good nasty bug to help curb that appetite. *ugh* I am NOT sorry to see Feb go. This month we have ALL be so sick. It's been awful. We just get over one thing and then another thing knocks us out again.