I always thought that losing weight meant giving up dessert. I love dessert. Actually, I love sweets. I should say I LOVE sweets. It was hard to consider giving up sweets and still lose weight. To me, I was like well, I'll be overweight as long as I have my dessert. I don't want to live without dessert. That's not living. But my mom helped me see how I can still have dessert everyday and lose weight. Granted, it's not a cannoli, or a rich slice of cake-- who knew cake had so many calories?! Oh, that's right-- everyone who's skinny who passes up cake at the birthday parties knew how many calories is in cake. Why do we serve cake at birthday parties anyway?! Cake is the devil.
This week, I've managed to have my sweets-- in the form of fruit-- and still feel satisfied. Mom puts sprinkles on all kinds of things. A low calorie smoothie, gets decorated with sprinkles --and voila! -- it's more fun!
I also found out, that bratwursts are in the same category as cake, to be enjoyed about once a year! Sigh. All this healthy eating has me wanting to start a garden. The thing is, my garden would be in hot Florida, not in the unseasonably cool Chicago weather that I'm currently enjoying.
So 7 days of healthy eating has me thinking of gardens instead of cake, and it's refreshing because I don't have to tell myself no to the garden. I can say yes to the garden-- and forget about the cake!
Also, since being back here in IL for the past 10 days, I realize how much there is to do. One can be outside here and actually enjoy it! I feel like in Florida, by my house there is nothing to do. It's sad. There's not really a life for kids in Florida, especially in Pasco County. But I have purposed to be more active when I get home, even if that means leaving the confines of my air conditioner to be out in the sweltering heat.
