Day 126...Season Eatings

It's the holiday season. It is a time for bad traffic, family madness, alcohol, and horribly hard fruit cake made with those nasty fake jellied wanna-be fruit chunks! But most of all, it seems to be a time for sweets! Every year co-workers, family, neighbors, and friends all pile together their confectionery concoctions and pass them amongst each other as a little "happy holidays" treat.

Last year I made the mistake of eating way too many of the holiday goodies that came my way. Everything from the Black Forest Cake in the break room, to the chocolates given to me by co-workers. I even ate some of the goodies I made in the process of baking for family and friends! By the end of my holiday break, I was 10lbs heavier, and two inches thicker around the middle!

This year, with my preparing for Pickle, I have tried so hard to watch my weight. Amazingly enough, I managed to drop about 7lbs around Thanksgiving time. But in the last week, I have been given more sweets then I could ever possibly imagine! Luckily, this year, I came prepared with a plan. With every sweet treat that has been given to me, I put it in the freezer to portion out and store for a later time. I feel so horrible throwing away the treats that people have made for me, so I figured, if I freeze them I can stretch out all the goodies over a longer period of time so I don't end up gorging myself during the holiday. So far it has worked great! The only down side is....I'm running out of room in my freezer! I have everything from Belgian chocolates, to peppermint bark, cakes, to cookies. Although, the other benefit to freezing all the goodies is that, if I am ever asked to bring a dessert to a family get-together (as I often am), I can just whip out some chocolates or cookies and be good to go! No cooking required.

At work, the teacher's lounge table is so covered in sweets, I can hardly eat my lunch there. But I'm happy to say I have resisted fairly well so far. If I want anything, I just take some home and pop it in the freezer for a later time. It is so tempting to want to eat it all (especially since I am a stress eater. So knowing I have all these goodies as I stress about family and the holidays doesn't help me any), but I keep chanting in my head, "Resist the temptation...do it for Pickle...keep your body healthy for Pickle..." But even with all my resisting to the treats on the table, one of the boys in my class gave me a Christmas gift today....a big box of fancy chocolates. I'm doomed.

So hopefully I can survive the holiday without adding on the pounds I just so recently lost. And as for my husband, once I am pregnant and hormonal, he'll have plenty of chocolates in the house to keep me at bay.

These snozberries taste like Pickles!