Stop Chewing Gum!

Good morning friends! I'm in a good mood this morning because we're supposed to get a storm today. A BIG storm in my area and I hope that means I get to go home soon!

I started my day with a workout as usual. This morning's workout was supposed to be a strength training workout with 20 minutes of cardio. I switched it up though because if we get that big snow storm, I don't know if I'll be able to drive to the gym to run tomorrow morning and I can lift and do a cardio dvd in my living room if I'm snowed in. I'm always planning ahead :) I was supposed to run 3 miles, but ended up running 4. It felt good so I went with it. I'm sure my legs and back will thank me for it later. I'm glad I don't have to stress about if I can get to the gym tomorrow. I stress over weird things heehee!

My dinner last night was a challenge of sorts. Spaghetti squash was on sale at the store again and I figured I'd give it another try. What can I say? I love a challenge. Every time I make it, I get comments saying to add tomato sauce. Don't you guys know by now that I don't like tomato sauce?! hahaha! I added a tiny bit of marinara sauce, peas, and a dollop of plain Chobani to my squash.


I served it along side honey bbq baked chicken. It was pretty good. I only like marinara sauce if it's burnt in the pan first. I know I'm weird...wanna fight about it? Maybe I'll do that next time. I really liked the Greek yogurt on it. I'm not a huge fan of spaghetti squash yet, but I'm determined to come up with the perfect recipe. I do like the addition of peas, so there's that.

Remember when I set a goal to stop chewing gum? I was doing pretty well with just a few slips here and there. Recently I've been having a lot of jaw pain that extended up into my ears. I WebMd'd that mess and the results were an impacted wisdom tooth. I haven't been to a dentist in years because I hate my dentist. He's mean, smells bad and they always lose my records when I go there and I end up having to explain my whole dental history to twenty different people. Since I was in so much pain, I decided to suck it up and go. When I called the dentist's office, they told me they couldn't see me for two weeks even though I was in pain. I knew that wouldn't do so I looked up a new dentist on my health insurance website and went to the first one who would take me that day for an appointment. What a difference this dentist was! She was around my age (early 30's) and very nice. I only waited five minutes in the waiting area before the exam! She poked around my mouth and felt my jaw muscles. WebMD was right, the dentist diagnosed me with an impacted tooth and TMD. My bite is completely out of line and she said the culprit was years of chewing gum all day and grinding my teeth at night. I was fitted for a dental splint to wear at night and made an appointment with the oral surgeon to have the impacted tooth removed. The moral of the story? Stop chewing gum! I threw away every pack of gum I owned and haven't chewed or looked at gum since. Seriously, the pain and $500 out of pocket for the stupid dental splint is NOT worth it. If you chew gum like a crazy woman like I did, please stop. I don't want anyone to go through what I'm going through now.

Sorry to have gone on a tangent there :) Thanks for your feedback yesterday about the empty PB jar giveaway. I didn't think there'd be too much interest in it, but thought I'd ask just in case. You guys are all germophobes like me! I won't do a giveaway. I'll just give them to my girl, Julie who loves OIAJ. I always pawn my empty jars off to her.

Have a great day!