Christmas is approaching

Well I don't know how much is left to say. I am now down to 166 1 lbs less than my goal and I am going to stop weighing myself soon. I am down to a total of 82 inches lost and I am a size 11/12. My waist is 31 inches!!!!!!!! It started out at 45 inches. I can hardly believe it. Anyway, I am going to start focusing on increasing my weight training and my running intensity and distance. I had a good run yesterday morning, ran for 40 minues straight but I wasn't able to measure the distance. I should do that. I am not too tempted by the luscious Christmas goodies I see all around me, including some of the ones I have been making. I have been making a wheat free, sugar free Pfeffernusse along with some other sugar white flour cookies for others (I am not going to make them do what I do, lol). Mmm, tasty (the sugar and wheat free cookies). Well I think so, and so do my children. If anyone wants the recipe, let me know! I will email it to you. One of my visiting teachees made a plate of yummy looking cookies and I didn't touch a one. That was a bit hard, let me tell you. Kim ate them and we had the missionaries over for supper on Friday so they helped eat them too. Yesterday was our ward Christmas party and there was really nothing for me to eat, except the corn and peas, so I did break down and have a dinner bun...white along with those. But it WAS homemade. I know I can't avoid white flour completely anyway. It was ok, I did have a bit of intestinal discomfort, but it wasn't much so it was manageable.

Anyway, it isn't about deprivation, really. I just know what some of this stuff does to me and I am not willing to let it anymore. I know my limits with cookies and cakes and other yummy treats and that limit is NO LIMIT, so I am not having any at this point. Kim can have a bag of candy sitting in his drawer at work and it stays there for months with him taking maybe ONE a day. HUH! It would last two days for me, maybe 3 at the most. So I just have to stay away from them until I know I am not controlled by those cravings. My sweet decadent treat is dates. I love dates, they are very sweet and very yummy. I have to even limit them!

I have been asked if I am going to go on a maintenance program. Well the answer is no, because I am not on a diet, and haven't been. I am just listening to my body and eating to nourish myself so I don't need to change that. There are some things I just can never have, so I won't. Such is life. It doesn't bother me because there as still lots of tasty and nutritious foods I do eat. I prefer being healthy and well anyway.

I want a bigger fitball for Christmas! Actually I want a treadmill, but I doubt that is going to happen. :)