If You Eat A Pizza......

If you are going to eat pizza....make surer it is thin crust with lots of veggies and chicken.  Also make sure you have a salad with it.  The salad will help make you feel fuller faster and you won't eat as much pizza.  I, unfortunately did not have salad tonight with the left-over pizza from last night and I ate more pizza.  I know, I know, wheat 2 nights in a row, but sometimes you just gotta.....you know what I mean?
 Try to diet on a cruise-I bet it can't be done.  Lots of exercise would be in order here. 

Lo-Fat Steamer

Oh yum!  I am drinking one now.  3/4 cup lo-fat milk, 1/4 cut lo-fat eggnog and a dash or two of nutmeg.  Heat in microwave.  Whip with frother and enjoy. I am nice and warm and cozy now.

It's Out.....

of the house; the cookies and little treats.  I gained about 3 pounds between last Monday and this morning when I weighed in.  I have been swimming/walking in the pool every day except for Christmas day.  But when your tongue gets a taste of something sweet; it just wants more.  Your body seems to crave it.  It is so easy to slide back into eating oblivion.  I have a cruise to go on Sunday, so I have to be really careful this week; a cruise is one big food smorgasbord. let me tell you.  One has to have lots of restraint.  If one can just say "the pleasure of eating something only lasts for a minute or two; why jeopardize the whole diet?"  I know, easier said than done. It's all in the mind-set.  So set your mind against temptation and remember you are doing this for your health. 

A New Start

No matter what you ate or drank this weekend, you can start fresh tomorrow; a whole new day and new year to get healthy!  The cookies in our house are going to St. Louis and I will purge any other stuff unfit for good health.  Go fo rit and let me know how you are doing.

Three Things

Three things I have learned:
1.  Sugar is not good; and I gave in this week :(
2.  I am pretty sure wheat causes my headaches
3.  When I have a headache, caffeine makes it worse.

I indulged last night at our small group dinner at Capri K's house and had a little lasagna, a little bread, a little piece of cake and two cookies and diet caffeine free pop.

With in one hour of eating the headache started and continued into the night and today.  It could have been caused by all three of the above mentioned things.  But it is looking good, that I will try harder to stay away from these three things in the new year, because oh baby, I am in pain today!

Sugar and Then Some

more sugar....I gave up the battle of eating no sugar last night.  It was all just so good with some yummy flavored coffee.  I had some wheat also with the appetizers. My eyes started itching and so did the rest of my face and body. Was it the shrimp?  or wheat?  or sugar? or a combination of things?  So back today to no wheat and sugar and no more of anything made out of cream cheese.  This takes every ounce of willpower I have.  

It Wasn't Easy.....

I had a few little gingerbread men with my tea; I tasted a few things with one bite; but I have to tell you when the food is in the house; it is downright hard not to eat it.  Nothing like dessert with a cuppa; a cup of tea or coffee.  Oh so hard to resist; especially Grandma H's sour cream coffee cake. I have made her coffee cake since I was first married and haven't made it in ages. It is the best; moist with a cinnamon, sugar, and chopped nuts for the topping.  I did snitch some morsels as I was cutting it up.  That is almost automatic isn't it when you are cutting cake?  The jello cake was a big hit too.  But the steamers in the evening are the favorites.