Weigh in day and a requested recipe!

As I sit here eating my wrap I'm smiling to myself because Wednesdays are my weigh in days and guess what? I am finally under 280 lbs again! I know that's still too much but it's the small goals that matter. For those of you that don't know my most recent history I was diagnosed in 2016 with clinical/major depression and prescribed Lexapro and I ended up gaining 30 lbs in 2017 because of the meds. Since realizing that I struggle with this and its not all in my head er, I mean it's not me just making stuff up, it's been easier to combat it. The Lexapro has helped stabilize me but it doesn't stop me from being sad, it doesn't get rid of the depression like so many people think these medicines do. With medicine and therapy I have been able to build healthy coping skills, some of them I naturally created as a teenager just because I was trying to deal with it back then I just didn't realize what it was at the time. Anyway, I'm getting off topic my point was anti-depressants can make you can weight so it's been a year of figuring out how to combat that for me so getting under 280 is a huge deal to me. I've made mini goals for myself to hit on my weightloss journey because it's easier to work on losing 10 lbs at a time verses 100 lbs at a time. Hitting that mini goal is so fulfilling because it means I am moving in the right direction.

As you all know I started Keto just a few weeks ago in fact I'm in the middle of week 3 right now. I have to admit its not easy because I do miss certain foods; however, I haven't had to starve myself and its much easier counting carbs vs calories. In fact I find this method a lot easier for myself because I already look at the nutrition labels for added sugar and other ingredients that are just bad for you because Ron has Type 2 diabetes. We've been doing this practice for years. So looking at the carb amount is something we already checked out when we were on the South Beach diet, its just more important with Keto. The foods we eat are more filling because they're not filled with what I like to call fluff. I will admit some things have an acquired taste much like these cookie dough balls my husband made. The first one was blech and I said nah I would not eat this again, well I tried another one the next day and it tasted significantly better. I'm not sure if its just the fact it needed to sit and combine flavor wise or if my palette just needed to get used to the flavors but either way, they're not not terrible and I quite enjoy them. In fact I was asked to provide the recipe so you guys get one this week! Please be aware there is no real sugar in these and it does take some getting used to but they're not that bad. Also don't expect them to task like chocolate chip cookie dough its definitely its own flavor.

So without further ado I give you Ron's sort of Chocolate Chip Cookie dough Balls:

Ingredients:

2 cups Almond Flour

1 stick of melted butter

1 tbsp Vanilla Extract

1 tsp Salt

1/3 cup of powdered Swerve (You can find this at Sprouts)

2/3 cups Dark Chocolate chips (make sure they're sugar free)

Directions:

In a bowl stir together the melted butter, powdered Swerve, vanilla extract, and salt. Once all of this is mixed together add the Almond flour. After all of that is mixed then add the dark chocolate chips. Roll into 30 separate balls.

1 Cookie Dough ball = 1 net carb

2 Cookie Dough balls = 3 net carbs