Woooo I am happy to say that as of today I officially
won my Dietbet. All those moments of stress and scale obsession payed off. As
sad as that sounds I am excited that I won. I mean who wants to lose money? Not
me!! I am happy that I succeeded. For one,
that means I lost 10 pounds this month which is a great thing and I am very
proud of myself for that. For two, it means that I can put my scale up for a
while and just focus on my changes elsewhere like my measurements, eating
habits, how many reps of exercises I can do , and am not always just thinking “scale
number, scale number, scale number.”
Like I said I don’t think I will do another one for a while but we will
see. The concept intrigued a lot of my friends and if doing it with them will
motivate then I may consider it but it was a bit mentally draining for me. With winning this Dietbet it also meant that for the first time in a long time I was under 200 pounds. That is crazy to me!
Woohoo my body 20 pounds lighter! I am so happy to be able to look in the mirror and see the difference finally. It is so much more motivating when you can see the changes you are making!!
Also being that the end of the month is
coming that also means my Tone It Up Frisky Fall Challenge is coming to a close
as well as my Betty Rocker Rocktober Challenge. I honestly loved both. While
integrating both challenges together I saw a huge change in my body both in
endurance and strength. I loved the gradual difficulty increase of the Betty
Rocker workouts and loved seeing my body get stronger and better at each of the
workouts. It also gave me a lot of new body strength exercises that I can do
anywhere. I loved that the Tone It Up workouts gave me a set schedule of what
to do each week and allowed me to never get bored. There was a nice mix of
cardio, strength training, stretching, etc… Videos each week included new ones
you hadn’t seen before which made things exciting and it gave me a lot of great
cardio options like interval training and stair workouts! I can’t wait for
either of these ladies to do another challenge and most definatley will sign up
for them in the future.
New Discovery That I Wish Had Gone Unfound….
So since my wondrous discovery of the Trader Joe Cookie
Butter which I wrote about (here) I have found myself longing for it. That
rich, creamy, sweet gingerbread taste is missing from my life now and I do not
know how to go on without it. I do not live anywhere close to Trader Joes and
buying Cookie Butter online is
obnoxious. It is extremely overpriced and I just could not shell out $15-20 a
jar for the stuff. In a desperation to find an alternative I googled recipes on
how to make my own and found that was no easy task either. Buying the cookies
to make it would cost almost as much as just buying it online so I decided to
look at another route and see if I could find a brand that made something
similar. Well I sure did and I feel complete again. Now I do not know that this
discovery is a good thing because that means that I can get this stuff anytime
I want and seeing as how it is my version of crack this could lead to bad bad
things. I discovered that a brand called Biscoff Spread which is made by a
company named Lotus is almost an exact dupe of Cookie Butter. Like Cookie
Butter is comes in crunchy and creamy and is made with a similar biscuit. It is
from Europe but you can buy it in many places in the US. I found mine in good
ol’ Walmart in the peanut butter sections. It is fairly priced between $3.50-
$3.75 at my Walmart which is about the same price point as Cookie Butter. The
jar is a bit smaller in the crunchy style which is too bad since that is my
favorite. I honestly didn't notice a difference between TJ’s and Biscoff. They
both have a delicious gingerbread flavor which around the same amount of
nutritional value.
