Diet Update - April

I'm doing well I'm sticking to my diet and exercise. I added cycling in my everyday routine. I started with 15min and now I'm at 30min.By the time I'm done I could hardly stand straight and feel my legs. I wonder how those professional cyclists do it. But I'm imagining my pink bicycle and the beautiful winter weather, inshallah etha allah a7yani by next winter you'll see me cruising in my pink bicycle.

This is the bike I want!!Look it even

has a cup holder!

Still searching for it. It is there on

the website, but none of the sellers have it yet.

I'm thinking of adding Yoga to my routine. I used to do yoga after I had Ahmed. It did my body a lot of good easing off the aches and pains after pregnancy. It is such a powerful exercise.

Dieting is hard. With my kind of job… it is very hard. About a week ago I was studying a recipe and looked at the picture it was sooo YummY!!! And the craving of having something sweet hit me hard! It was around 11:30pm the whole house was quiet and everyone was asleep. I try to ignore the craving. No. I've worked hard on my diet. No. I won't go there. I get up and go to the Kitchen and open the fridge. I grab an ice cold bottle of water and my eyes zeros on the Sara Lee marble pound cake (Fahad's favorite). My mind makes a quick flip. 1 slice of Pound cake cut in half with a teaspoon of Nutella! Zap it for few seconds in the microwave and I have something out of this world. I shake my head shutting away this destructive thought and take big gulp from my icy water. There! It will ease off the craving. I close my recipe book. Not a good time to study any recipes. Turn on the TV… nothing…OSN is sooo boring. I put it on mute and pick up the novel I'm reading. My mind goes back and forth to the pound cake and the Nutella! No! No! NO! I just can't! and a painful headache starts. God!!! Just this time, just to ease the headache off! My Will is weak and I give in! I rush to the Kitchen and prepare this delicious combination of cake and chocolate! I take the first bite. The cake warm and tender, melting immediately with the chocolate spread! I swoon. I close my burning eyes. Yes! I'm crying as I eat it, not because I'm enjoying it, because I have given in to my chocolate addiction! Thus the midnight binging…on and off begins and one of the reasons why my weight loss is so slow. Is there any medication to chocolate addiction? However when it comes to my regular meals I'm good. So for the next two days I stuff the boys with Nutella until the jar finished. Not that they need some energy, mashallah, but after a nutella tartine I take them to the pool at their favorite club and let them take out whatever craziness hit them after the chocolate snack. No more Nutella in my house unless I'm going to use it for a recipe that same day ; )