My whole life I grew up hating fat free, sugar free stuff. My grandmother used to make sugar free chocolate pudding that was awful tasting. I hated it and basically applied my feelings for that to all SF/ LF/ FF foods. I’ve now reached 51 and have found that I am gaining weight that doesn’t seem to want to leave as easily as it did when I was 30. Just part of getting old as I’ve heard and read about many times. I track what I eat, work out to a sweat a couple times a week, walk almost every day and drink lots of water. Same things I’ve done for years just harder to use as successful weight loss tools now. Part of my problem is over eating. not eating too much like to make me puke but too much as in more than a serving. I also have yet to figure out calories that I need to actually accomplish a caloric deficit. I’ve been everywhere from 1100 – 2600 with varied workouts. Maybe I’m not dedicated enough but back to the point of this post. I hated fat free etc. I love almond flour waffles and love to dip them in syrup. Just for the record dipping homemade waffles in syrup is WAY better than just pouring syrup on them. Just wanted to make that clear LOL

So every day I start over trying to be better than the day before. This weekend when I went shopping I bought some Walden Farms fat free/ sugar free blueberry syrup. If I hated it I could always go for my old reliable Aunt Jemima regular syrup in the Market Basket version. I opened it up today and WOW! it was delicious much to my surprise! It’s my new favorite obsession for breakfast and one that will save me on calories allowing me to move them to other places in the day which may or may not help me budge the scale off the number it’s currently at. Change happens in little increments made one at a time. My goal of course is a new pair of leggins that I need to shed 10 lbs to earn. I’ll get there by making small changes and not giving up.

On a side note, I signed up for Falmouth Virtual Road Race this year and have not trained 1 day! I’ve run but running and training are two different things. I better get motivated to get up to 7 miles or my running buddy might strangle me if I make her walk 7 miles LOL! I better get moving!