Whoopie!... literally

May 28, 2010

Ok, on the 19th on decided to cut out all starches and simple sugars to help me lose my excess 10% of weight (15lbs., to be exact).  Well, about once a week I *used to* have a whoopie pie for dessert.  And last night, I was feeling weak and went to the fridge to grab on even though I didn't want to blow my promise to myself to cut out starch/sugars.  Man, I almost opened it up, but then decided to take a look at the nutritional information.  Ok, and here was the real shocker to me... First off, 1 serving is 1/2 a whoopie pie... Really?   I could eat a whole whoopie pie with even blinking probably.  Next, and this was the thing that sobered me out of my craving...  1 Whoopie Pie has more calories, fat grams, and carbs than a double quarter pounder with cheese from McDonalds!  Yikes!  So I almost contemplating it for another second, stepped away from the whoopie pie, and opted for 8oz. of cottage cheese mixed with 3/4 of a banana.  (It would have been the whole banana, but it had a bruise...  ha ha).  This is going to be a long road.  So what was even better than making a good choice, was that when I stopped by the bariatric office to get weighed, I had lost 4lbs.!  I will take 4lbs. in 9 days, over a whoopie pie any time!  I'm not getting too psyched up because I feel like there have been times that I've gone to the bathroom and lost 4lbs., but it was a good feeling and is helping me to stay on the right track.

Becca

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