Habitual Cravings

What does one trying to pick themselves up after falling off the wagon.  Off the Trim Healthy Mama wagon.  The wagon, where you eliminate sugar from your life.  A 43 year life of sugar addiction makes it impossible for allot of people to just give it up.  Even more difficult, is how does one satisfy the crazy, overtaking desire for sweetness?  Very carefully and planned out very strategically.  I know no other way.   So last night, I had that crazy "I am going to cave into the Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream if I don't find something sweet quick", desire for sweetness. So I whipped up some of this yummy pumpkin whip.  Did it work?  Certainly so.  I ate it and quickly went to bed. I know we have all been there so I decided to share my pumpkin concoction with you.  I hope that you enjoy.  Let me know if you try it and if you tweak it, please share your tweaks in the comments of my blog below. Pumpkin Whip Printable Reci...

What better way to start the day than with some THM approved Strawberry Chocolate Bars. Who would have known or thought that there was a secret ingredient in the base of these bars? By the looks and the taste of them, I certainly would have never guessed. Just what is that secret ingredient, black beans. My husband and my children turned up their noses as I told them that I used the draining black beans in my yummy brownies. The end result was so much better than I ever would have anticipated. This post will be quite brief. I am so excited about this new lifestyle, I can eat foods that I never would have imagined and still lose weight. So let me just get straight to the guts of this yummy treat. For those following Trim Healthy Mama I ran the recipe past some experts in the plan. This was approved as an S and the serving size can be decreased to 9 instead of 16 and still be on plan. Personally, I find that a small serving of this is plenty. Strawberry Chocolate Bars Makes 16 Bars ...

Who remembers those clever little bundles of goodness that mothers used to make for us for breakfast as kids?  Come on; you know the ones with the slice of bread, with a hole in the center containing a little piece of the morning sunshine.  Wether your mother called them: Eggs in a Hole, Eggs in a Basket, Toads in the Hole, Sunshine Toast or Eggs in a Nest I think at one point in our lives we have all enjoyed these breakfast treat. I decided that there are enough of us Trim Healthy Mamas out there trying to teach our children the benefits of healthy eating the Trim Healthy Mama way, that I would share this combination of plan approved ingredients.  I love to make dippy (sloppy, runny or drippy) eggs and then dip my toast in the yolk.  For years at breakfast; if it wasn't dipping peanut butter toast in my coffee, then it was dipping gooey buttery toast in my sloppy egg yolk and then eating the remainder of the egg on a piece of toast.  With the Trim Healthy M...

So I lost my sexy many years ago, now I am on a new mission to get that sexy back.  For quite a few years, I haven't felt sexy nor do I feel like I have looked sexy.  I am for certain I am not alone on this issue.  So what does this have to do with habitual cravings? Well, for me quite honestly it has everything to do with it.  It is what helped me to lose my sexy and it is what will help me find it again.  Years of giving in to the cravings for sweets, candy, breads, carbs and you name it the list could go on forever have been huge contributing factors to losing my sexy.  "The naive view has always been that cravings represent wisdom of the body," says Marcia Pelchat, PhD, a food researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. But it's not so. Pelchat’s work has shown that people have cravings even with a diet that's adequate in calories and nutrients. "People will often say things, like, ‘Gee, I'm craving potato chips. I must need the...