Keeping focused

With the fast food chains on every block it seems harder and harder to maintain focus. My biggest vices are sweets and sweet coffee. (I like coffee in general.) This weekend I was reminded just how much I like sweets. Little man is in cub scouts and we have the Blue and Gold Banquet to go to. The competition is to bake a cake! So that's right up my alley since I am a baker by trade. I am loving this idea..... Until the baking begins....  The torture!!  The smell of fresh baked cake filled my house.  This is the reason I have temporarily  put my business on hold.  I need to focus on getting healthy before I can be around the temptation 24/7.  Thank God I have a husband that supports me 100%!

I did succumb to one craving yesterday, hubby and I had an impromptu lunch date at Pita Pit! I used about double the points I normally do for lunch, but it kept me full the whole day.  We had a low point dinner and the most important things, it was healthy and worth every single bite!! I still had enough points at the end of the day to have a glass of wine, I think it was a success!

That is the key, finding what healthy cravings you have, maintaining control, log all of your food and be sure it is worth the points that you are eating!  If you don't love the food and it's a high point food (or high in calories) then you really need to re-think it and decide whether or not it's going to be worth it.

So here are some of pictures of our cake, rules: little man has to help and it has to be 100% edible!

This post is brought to you from my elliptical. (Multitasking at its finest.) Helped me ROCK my time today! (Which coincidentally was a 20 minute workout on here and because I was typing on my iPad my hand kept hitting buttons and erased the time and calories. :( Darn it!  Longest workout yet and no proof!  :)  Oh well.

Happy Weekend!
~Kari

Those are chocolate moose, fish and crabs. :)