Summertime
And the living is easy
Fish are jumping…

I left the Alpha Son in the picture so you could get an idea how big these fish were.  Major YUM too.  Alpha Hubby and Alpha Son caught some Alpha Phish a couple of weekends ago.  Yah hoo! 

I realize that it is far easier to eat healthy in the summertime than any other time.  The garden is spitting out fresh tomatoes and squash, and I can get anything else I need at the Farmer’s Market.  It is so easy to grill up some catfish (well, it is easy for Alpha Hubby, ho ho) and cut up some fresh tomatoes – which are so sweet they make you realize why they are a fruit and not a vegetable – and ta-daa!  You have a light dinner, low in calories, high in taste.

I am actually craving fresh veggies and fruit.  Don’t get me wrong, I love a good grilled steak, but now I really am craving broccoli instead of smashed potatoes.  Not always, but most of the time.  So I guess there is no excuse now not to eat healthy… if I will just keep away from THESE:

Yes, I began craving Snickerdoodles last week.  But I’ve changed.  I am not the same woman I was a few months ago.  I did not make up the cookies, eat half the raw dough, bake up the rest, hide them and nibble on them until they were all gone.  Nope.  I ate a spoonful of dough, two normal round cookies, and part of a giant one I made when I lost the patience for making them individually.  I put them all in a baggie, froze them and pushed them off on Alpha Son the next day.  I got them out of the house, albeit with tears running down my face.  (OK, not really) 

And I know they won’t come back for a visit so I am not going to be able to blow my journey into my LBD sky high.  I am so glad I was good and didn’t binge.  Really.

I miss them.

  But I really, really am glad I have change my bad habits into good habits.  And soon I won’t even make the cookies in the first place – at least not until I reach goal weight!