Ultra-Healthy Food Day

Sorry its been a few days!  Its been a fun and busy beginning of the week.  Its been a treat-filled beginning of the week, which is my reason for having a sugar-free ultra healthy food day today.  My husband's birthday was yesterday, and per his request he wanted homemade chocolate ice cream with reeses peanut butter cups in it, along with Boston Creme Cake, Fettuccine Alfredo with Broccoli and Steak.  Lots of good food.  I bought the reeses last Friday telling myself I would not eat any until I ate some of my ice cream, but I failed miserably in that attempt-the bag was opened by Saturday.  I don't know how many cups I had from Saturday to Monday, but by yesterday I was sick and tired of them!  I had close to no self-control.  To get rid of them I decided to make Brownies with Reeses Peanut Butter Cups and Peanut Butter Frosting (I am going to work on healthifying the recipe and sharing it.  Mind you this will be a few months away.  I've got to stay away from reeses for awhile).  That got rid of a lot.  Then, I made my Frozen Chocolate yogurt with reeses Monday, which got rid of a few (that recipe I will share soon).  Tuesday I used the rest of the reeses when I made my husband's ice cream (the real, heavy cream, whole milk ice cream.  It was his birthday, so I made the normal stuff, instead of the reduced fat-kind).  Now, I can breath because I don't have any more reeses I can just grab and munch on.  I plan on making Scott take the cake to work tomorrow (not today because they are still working on the Brownies I sent with him yesterday).  The cake recipe I will also share, as well as the fettuccini alfredo.  They were both delicious, and relatively healthy (I got both from Cookinglight magazine/ website).  I had so much fun preparing for the birthday celebration.  It was fun to cook all of that good food, but I am ready for a break from sweets.  I need to get a little bit more control back into my life-sans reeses peanut butter cups and chocolate chips (my guilty sneak-a-snack).

Which is why I am doing my ultra-healthy-food day today.  I am staying away from the sweets. I am eating tons of veggies, and lots of fruits.  I am not having cheese (I've been having too much of that lately, my tummy has been angry with me).  I have gotten sick from all of this sweeter food and my tummy has been unhappy.  So, today I am treating it well.  As I was loosing weight, I thought that for sure I had this food-eating/binging thing under control, but I think that no matter how much control I gain over it, I will always struggle.  Food is my addiction, and once your addicted its hard to say no.  This is why I write down what I eat.  This is why I measure.  I commit to myself that the rest of the week I will write down all that I eat, and that today I will refrain from sweets.  I think that will have to be a one-day-at-a-time project.  That is what being healthy is.  Its something that you work on precept by precept, and hope that someday you will get to a point where your weakness will become a strength to you.  I am still working on that, and feel that I will for awhile.

In efforts to help me do this, feel free to tell me how you say no to your addictions.