Baking

Ahhh.....baking. It's all fun and games until you eat too much batter. My friend Emily and I baked all day yesterday. We're involved with www.bakinggals.com (this is our first time). We get together in teams and bake for a soldier that is deployed. This soldier will get a ton of baked goods around the same time and will share with his/her fellow soldiers. Well, what I would want to make/eat is not the same as a soldier in Bosnia or Iraq. They want the good stuff! We made 2 batches of chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, no bake cookies, and granola bars. Each recipe had 1 or 2 sticks of butter in it. Pretty crazy! But man, everything was SOOO tasty! I kind of went crazy yesterday, and realized that I needed to take control of myself today. I haven't been the best about tracking and getting my 8 GHG's since I got back from vacation. I decided that yesterday I used enough of my weekly points allowance, so I will not go over my daily points for the rest of the week. I tracked today, and feel so much better for getting in all of my requirements! Why is it that we sabotage ourselves? Is food really worth it? One bite of cookie dough would have been enough. Or even two. Did I really need 10 spoonfuls? Well, at least I realize now how silly that was. I don't feel guilty, because I used my points for it...but I don't plan on doing it again.

In other news, the BIG election is tomorrow. I hope you all get out and vote!