Today marks the week long baking extravaganza I have agreed to with my mother. That's right folks- it's Christmas cookie mania! We are baking up a storm and hopefully giving the large majority of them away! Here is the Christmas cookie line-up:
"Weighing in at 180 calories per cookie......with 9 grams of fat and 23 grams of carbs......we have...Toll House Chocolate Chip cookies!
Followed by:
2.) Death By White Chocolate
3.) Cherry Cheesecake
4.) Butter Cut-Outs (a must to appease my mother)
5.) Raspberry Linzer
6.) Spumoni Bars (new this year!)
I'm not gonna lie, I could go for a good cookie right about now. While there are no low-cal versions being baked this week, I did take all necessary precautions. Observe that there is no peanut butter on the list. I simply can not control myself when there is peanut butter anything in the house, much less MY peanut butter cookies, which I'm proud to say are not the bland, dry, sugary, absent of all peanut butter flavor, cookies that you generally see out there. Put peanut butter right up there with macaroni and cheese for me! I'm sure there will be a poem about my love of peanut butter in an upcoming entry, but for now let's talk about the smartest thing I've done thus far! It is...(drum roll please)...starting a diet BEFORE Christmas!! (cheering!) Yes, you heard me! I should win a prize for this ground-breaking decision! Year after year I do the same thing, and get the same results, and then wonder why I'm fat and miserable. Every frickin' year I make the decision to start a diet AFTER the holidays. I cram as much food as I possibly can into my mouth before the January deadline, with the understanding that come January, this need for overindulgence will all magically cease as I embark on the diet of a lifetime. I end up gaining some obscene amount of weight over the holidays and then throw myself into an extreme diet and exercise mode that begins January first and is over by February second. What is not over is the 15+ pounds I put on over the holidays. I would be better off to do nothing, and have no plan whatsoever, then to set myself up for this kind of failure! Why?? Because if I didn't have the notion of a severe January diet looming like a cloud of death above my head, I wouldn't overkill my eating the month before to the point where I kick off the New Year with at least a fifteen pound deficit. Yes, I would still overeat (I think we all do at the holidays) but I literally have this mentality of, "I got to get it in," before January, which causes me to over indulge on my overindulging!
I have done this soooo many times without success, yet it never discourages me from doing it once more! Well not this year sister! I am pleased as punch that I am starting off this holiday season having already lost 13 pounds. I don't feel the pressure to perform a miracle next month. I don't feel as though I CAN'T have some holiday eats, especially having gotten a handle on this so early on. I may just start out this New Year weighing less than I did last New Year's. WOW! If I can share only one message with you this week, let this be it!! Anyone who is listening, pleeze, do NOT waste one more second of your life on this falsely promised notion of redemption! There is nothing magical about January first! REPEAT...JANUARY FIRST HAS NO SPECIAL POWERS!! We do not suddenly wake up as transformed human beings, with superhero will-power. All you are doing is putting off until tomorrow, what you could be doing today! I beg thee...try something different this time! Join me in this fight TODAY!
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -Albert Einstein
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