Temptation

We went for an early Halloween celebration with my mom, aunt, and grandmas by trick-or-treating at their houses. One of my grandmas gave Will a box of those really awesome frosted sugar cookies you get in the bakery at a grocery store and told him to share them with mommy and daddy. For a little background, I'd buy a package of those just about every week that I was pregnant with Will. I love them. LOVE them. Those bad boys were sitting on the counter for at least five days, and I'm proud to say I only had two bites of cookie. I was even more proud of myself when I saw that each cookie was 4 Weight Watcher points. Ouch.

Candy--especially yummy, miniature chocolate candy--is a weakness of mine, too. When I was pregnant with Will I gained 10 pounds during the month of October because I had taken to keeping bags (yes, bags plural) of Halloween candy in my desk at work. Thankfully I didn't need to buy any this year because we went to a friend's house for Halloween, but Will's bucket o' treats is still here. Amazingly, all I've had is one package of peanut M&Ms on a particularly trying day. And let me tell you--there was some good candy in there.

So, so far so good for the start of the holiday season. I'm trying to be really on the ball with recording what I eat on the WW website so I have an idea throughout the day of what I can and cannot eat. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, so that's going to be rough. I love Thanksgiving dinner, so I'm going to have to be careful to not go too overboard. I think I've found a good motivator, though. I bought a super cute shirt over the summer, but with my big nursing boobs it was too tight to wear. Now that Miles is weaned I wore it for the first time last week and loved getting to wear a cute new shirt. So, my new found motivation is to go buy new clothes once I'm skinny. Seriously a lot of the casual clothes I have in my closet are from a time frame of 8-10 years ago, so I need some updating.

I'm hoping to be down 10 pounds by Thanksgiving. I have seven to go, so if I really work at it I think I can make it. of course, Miles' birthday party with Costco cake and pizza for dinner will be hard, but I just keep reminding myself that I'd rather be skinny. Even at MOPS last week I was good and only had a small piece of an egg casserole and everything else on my plate was fruit. The "craft" was making caramel apples, and I skipped it so I wouldn't be tempted. I tell ya--I really want to get skinny again!!!!!