I used to eat brownies for breakfast. I know, we all eat unhealthy things for breakfast every now and and then, but I used to have Brownies appeared as a regular feature on my breakfast menu. I didn’t really plan on cooking them when I decided what to serve for our weekly meals, but whenever I was [...]
   
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Add new tag baking choices dieting embarassing moments excuses faith fertility goal setting happiness introduction meal time measurements obesity restaurant meals self esteem shopping weight weight loss As I’ve been reading blogs over the past months I see that a lot of you are *real* cooks. It got me thinking and reflecting on the ability to cook. And not only the ability to cook but the desire to cook. This afternoon we hosted 20 people at our house. Half were women and half were teenagers. Part of the festivities was a cookie swap. This is what ONE table looked like. There were so many cookies we had to set up a second table. Every person brought three dozen cookies to share with the other [...] I’ve had several questions from different people asking me what I eat. (I appreciate the questions!) Well, I eat regular food. And, I still love food, even after having lost all the weight. So, for those of you who are interested in what maintenance looks like for me, here’s some of the things I ate [...] Trigger foods can get you when you least expect it. I remember very vividly where a trigger food “got me” unexpectedly. I was in the second or third week of yet another WW experience, and happily watching the Oprah show one afternoon. There on the television screen popped up an advertisement for some kind of [...] Before we moved, my good friend used to bring us treats from across the backyard. She called them “happys.” Sometimes the “happy” would be a few cookies she made, and wanted to share with our family, and sometimes it was flowers from her garden. Other times it was just a funny little something she picked [...] The lesson I learned from confession brownies is this. You may think, as I did, that no one sees what you are doing. And they might not. But you see what mistakes you make with your food choices, and the repercussions are both external and internal. External as your weight slowly creeps up, and internal, as you feel guilt for making bad choices. I would encourage you to not beat yourself up over poor choices, but rather use those choices as a learning tool to do better next time. |
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