Being a Teacher is SWEET

As I said in my previous post, I'm a fourth grade teacher. One of the joys of being an elementary school teacher is celebrating birthdays with my students. However, that's not so great when you're trying to eat healthy and lose weight. I'm constantly offered delicious sweets (cupcakes, cookies, brownies, etc.) to celebrate special occasions. I LOVE sweets, so it's super hard to say no...especially when a student stares at you until you take a bite.

Today was one of those days. I had two students with January birthdays who brought treats in today, plus a bag of trail mix (full of M&Ms from another students for New Year's. I told them that they looked delicious, but I would have to eat them later because I was super busy at the moment. (Little did they know that I threw them in the trash when no one was around.) Before, I would happily scarf them down. But now, I'm more conscious of what I put in my mouth because then I have to track it in Lose It!, but today, instead, I ate my strawberries and low calorie string cheese.

I was proud of myself for saying no, even though I felt a little bad about throwing them away. I just have to take it one day at a time!