March 19th Day 20 – Limos, Liquor and Liquid Protein?

Friday was filled with excitement as I was off to celebrate one of my very closest friends turning the big 4-0. Bonded together in the college dorms, tonight’s group of party goers have shared every major life event over the past 22 years. These guys have seen me at my best, worst and every manically induced yo-yo diet in between. If you guys are reading out there, I am honored with the longevity and love of our shared friendship.

I headed out the door with my protein shaker, and the absolute conviction that I would listen to the good Dr’s advise to not mix booze and Phentermine. I was feeling quite smug since I had gotten in 45 minutes of sweat inducing cardio and the once again welcomed the ability to actually zip my dressy black slacks without a ratcheting set.

First stop was to drop off my car so I could carpool in with my good friend and pary goer into the city. This friend has been steadily melting away through her own efforts the past 2 years. No drugs or secret formula just determination, strict diet and exercise. I am so very proud of her 100+ lbs of weight loss and she said she was going “all the way baby!”. She said she even recently ran a mile for the first time in over 25 years. Huge!

We efficiently scared the crap out of our birthday girl by doing a little B&E into her home so we could pounce our birthday wishes upon her. We exuded great enthusiasm since let’s face it, she is the oldest and thereby facing 40 first! I whipped up my last shake of the day before crawling into the limo. Immediately, champagne corks were popped and beautiful adult beverages began to flow. One party goer is a doctor and just happened to mention that she had a drug interactions reference on her blackberry that she could call up if I decided to partake but of course she wouldn’t recommend it.

I was steadfast for the entire ride into the city then I started to get hungry and quite jealous of my slightly inebriated party goers. By the time we got to our first bar I had already worked out worst case scenarios and considered I was in a limo A) not driving B) had my insurance card on me and C) I am sure the limo driver could find the hospital if needed. All these reasons suddenly made perfect sense for me to partake so I sauntered up to my friend with her drug interactions list and demanded a look up Stat! We read, “side effects may include: light headed, dizzy and heighten effect of alcohol on the blood stream”. We looked at each other, blinked and both declared simultaneously that this just made me a cheap date and isn’t that what everyone is looking for in an adult beverage. Ha!

I quickly ordered up a lemon drop and half way into martini glass, BAM! Light headed was right, I saw spots and started to feel like I just got off the Zipper at the state fair. In 5 sips I went from fine to spinny drunk with no fun part in between. Yikes! I stopped immediately and spent the next 45 minutes attempting to shake off the effects and realized that I really needed to eat. It had been 5 hours since the last shake. I should have had another one on me but live and learn.

The rest of the night, dinner and friends were lovely once I got some protein in me. I tried curried cauliflower for the very first time and had shrimp cocktail to die for. All in all, a wonderful event for a wonderful friend.