My New Favorite Treat

I've been playing with a few different recipes for sugar-free "real" food treats.  I came up with one today that was delicious!

30 grams of raw cashews
80 grams of pitted dates (I buy them whole, but chop them up since they seem hard on my food processor)
1 tsp cocoa powder
1/4 tsp vanilla
3-4 fresh raspberries

Mix it all up in the food processor for a while and voila - yummy fudgey treat!  Really, you should try it!

Week 1 Report

I'm one week in and feeling good!  Yesterday I had to deal with a few unanticipated events and I'm still not sure how to deal when these types of things come up.  We went to my in-laws house for dinner.  My mother-in-law always makes something delicious, and always serves dessert.  I knew I'd have no problem skipping dessert, but first - dinner.  We had delicious pork chops with white rice, [white] rolls, and corn.  There was a yummy mixed fruit salad as well.  I didn't want to just skip half of what was being served, so instead I just got a very small portion of the rice, and only one roll (normally I probably would have had 2-3).  I had two [small] pork chops and loaded up on fruit salad along with some corn on the cob.  I thought I'd just ask for a little more fruit while everyone had dessert (chocolate cake and strawberrry ice cream) when my mother-in-law said, "I heard you're not eating sugar, so I got you some sugar-free ice cream."  So sweet, right?  She got a little single serving ice cream container out of the freezer and plopped it down in front of me.  There were well over a dozen ingredients.  I'm really trying to avoid processed foods and especially artificial sweeteners, but I felt like I kind of had to eat it.  It was so nice of her to get it for me to try and help me in my sugar free quest.  But honestly, I think all the aspartame made me really hungry.

Other than that, I've lost 3 pounds (in a week!) and I'm about 4 pounds away from my pre-pregnancy weight.  I have my goal weight broken down into a few steps - first to get to pre-pregnancy weight, then lose 4 more, and ultimately 10 less than that.  So I'm still 18 pounds away from my ultimate goal, but I'm definitely on the path.  Also, a friend and I have committed to run together 3 times a week for 30 minutes at a time.  It's been great so far!