Lo-Cal Hot Drinks

I got on the scale this morning and let's just say I'm motivated to get back on the weight-loss bandwagon!

Three areas I need to address are:

Drinks with calories
Portion size
Desserts

I'm starting with drinks today. Here is what I've had so far:

Pero is a coffee substitute (light flavor) and cocoa powder adds a stronger flavor, a little bitterness, and a darker color. Twinings herbal tea is just good. I don't add any sugar or artificial sweetener with either of these because I don't prefer it that way.

I'm keeping the other two problems in my mind as I go through my day. In addition I'm going back to writing down what I'm eating. That always helps.

Something I never thought I'd like

I like getting up early. I get up five days a week at about 4:30 am. I was always a bed slug, loving to luxuriate in bed until at least 7:30 if I could get away with it, but NO MORE!! I think it's because my house is really noisy. We have a lot of hard floors and my three little girls are very loud. They are always talking, laughing, shouting, and singing. It's just a noisy place to live. So the 4:30 to 6:30 hour is . . . quiet. So very quiet that I don't know why all mothers don't get up like this.

Of course the down side is I have to go to bed surprisingly early. If I want my eight hours of sleep I have to be snoozing by 8:30 pm. That doesn't usually happen, but it does more often than you'd imagine. When the girls go to bed, so do I. I read or watch TV, then go to sleep. Honestly, 4:30 isn't early if I go to bed on time.

So here I am with my cup of Twinings lemon herbal tea, chatting away with my unseen friends.