Yum!!! Day Seventy-Three and Seventy-Four

I found this recipe today and I had to try it. It is so yummy, I am not sure about the points but I don't think it's more than 2 points.

Recipe:1 box - lemon cake

mix3/4 cup water

1/3 cup applesauce

2 egg whites

1 box sugar free jello

2 - 8oz. low fat or fat free lemon yogurt

1 - 8oz. fat free cool whip

Instructions:Combine cake mix, water, applesauce and egg whites and jello in bowl, mix until smooth. Stir in 1 container of yogurt.Bake in a sprayed 9 x 13 pan for 30 minutes at 350 degrees or until done.cut in 20 slices, or make 20 cupcakes. Mix cool whip and lemon yougurt for frosting. Yum!

I am doing better, I had two of these babies tonight. I am going to try chocolate next week.

Oiy-Vey.....Day Seventy-Two

This was monday, and it stayed that way all day. I have PMS and I know it, it will pass, I hope. I did ok today, but my emotions are really getting the best of me so the best thing for me to do is just say, tomorrow will be better. I hope.

When it rains.....Eat soup! Day Seventy and Seventy-One

I don't love rain, that is no secret. I do love soup though, and how fun to have soup on a rainy day. Gives me a full and warm feeling. Love all the veggies and it is so low in points I can eat it with every meal. I can also throw an exercise DVD in the DVD player and in the privacy of my own home I can stay fit. Who knows this may be a new way of life for me, it seems like it will never stop raining.

So for today I am going to say I love the rain, but please Lord let it go away tomorrow.

Fish Fry Day Sixty-Nine

I did just eat one and believe me they weren't all that big. There are not any pictures here of the four hushpuppies I ate but they were good, very very good. I had fish, hushpuppies, and fruit. When I got home and started to post my points I had 3 points left. I was a little nervous eating my extra points, but this morning I weighed and I had lost 1 pound. The night before I had lost two pounds so I am not sure what is going on with the scale, but that is not my war. My battle is just to try to stay withing my points, if I do that and I don't lose, well then I will start to worry.
This week was the fish fry, next week is my mom's Birthday so we will be traveling to her house. I am praying that I can stay on track. Wish me luck, soon the summer months will be gone and I don't want to regret it just because I didn't give 100%.

Channeling Elvis... Peanut Butter & Banana Sandwich. Day Sixty- Eight

I have never tried a peanut butter and banana sandwich before, even though I have heard about them before, they just never sounded very good. Boy was I ever wrong. I got some Naturally More Peanut Butter and decided to give it a try at breakfast. Wow! It was so good. I decided to make it for lunch. This will definitely be a go to meal when nothing sounds good. Quick, easy, and so tasty. Elvis thanks for the new recipe. Loved it.

Click the picture to see the peanut butter.

Tracking my food Day Sixty-Seven

I really am trying to stop pretending that I didn't swallow that cupcake. It's a hard habit to break. If I don't tell me will it not show up on the scale? If I try to forget about it will it not be a reality? Relearning is a hard thing to do, but I am making every attempt. Last night I wasn't hungry so there was no temptation. Tonight I am, and I keep thinking about those cupcakes, I mean they are made with pumpkin and that is a vegetable! They are also cake, and I ain't fooling anyone but myself. Tracking my food is the only way I can overcome this dangerous habit. It is my 12 step program, my Weight Watchers 10 commandments. Thou shall not cheat, Thou shall not lie, so I will write it down. No excuses, I already feel empowered. YES!

Let there not be rain and there was no rain. Day Sixty-Seven

There was a really good chance of rain today but it didn't rain.
It amazes me how rainy days affect my mood.
I was all prepared for the onslaught of a torrential rain and it didn't happen. The Weather Man says its coming tonight and tomorrow, and I will
try again to prepare myself for the sleepy, drowsy, weepy mood rain puts me in. I don't know why rain affects me that way but it does, another thing I need to learn to deal with.
I may never learn to love the rain, but I will learn to live with the it.
And I willlearn to dance in the rain.
I have so many bad habits that affect me like the rain,when I allow these habits to creep into my life they overwhelm me.

I am going to strive to overcome these habits.
Some of these habits are:
1.Thinking about what I am going to have for a snack when I am full.
2.Eating that snack, when I am not even hungry.
3.Believing the lie that eating this will make me feel better.
This quote hangs in my Living room where I can see it every day, how often I forget these words.
" Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass....It's about learning to dance in the rain"