I've been snowed in all day - blizzard type conditions and all I've wanted to do was eat high fat, high calorie comfort food. Hubs and I did end up having pizza earlier but the slice of pizza and the salad I had were well within my calorie allowance.

What did me in? Chocolate chip cookies! I made them yesterday and I was fine. Absolutely fine. Maybe a little tempted but nothing I couldn't handle. Today I had one - followed by 5 more. I ate SIX chocolate chip cookies! Oy!

I'm SO angry with myself. I know better, really I do. Oh well - back on track and a lesson learned. One is probably fine. One followed by 5? Not so much. Ugh!

Don't kick yourself for this too much and just get right back on track. My mom made a bunch of gingersnaps and I had one, but I've got some gingersnap flavoured tea that I've been drinking if I feel like I want another!

Thanks! I've been trying not to be too hard on myself but it's just so frustrating because I know better and yet I find myself mindlessly eating more than just the one cookie I allotted myself. Sigh.

This is my first true variation from my plan since I began back in October so I guess in the grand scheme of things it's not horrible but I just need to remember that I cannot repeat it!

This is my first Christmas doing low-carb. One of our traditions is to make about 8 different types of cookies, then make little cookie boxes to give to our neighbors. I started yesterday.

I was kinda dreading it, but surprisingly found that so long as I was eating on-plan and had lots of fat for satiety, I wasn't even tempted by the cookies.

Molasses sugar cookies yesterday
today is biscotti and PB kisses
Later this week will be dream bars, chocolate chip, sesame cookies, almond cookies, and sugar cookies. then we take most of Saturdayto decorate the sugar cookies (it's the big production of the cookie tradition). I have three other recipes in case we need more at that point.

I find, though, that if I have one or two the cravings do come back. I absolutely have to make sure I'm not hungry during this week, or I will eat cookies. And if I do, I know I'll be on the brink of a binge that'll take a week of low-carb to get out of the cravings.

I just "don't eat" that kind of food anymore. If I think of the cookies as belonging to the neighbors we're making them for, and not for the family, it seems to help.