What Have You Been Up To?

Here's what I have been up to:

• Working out is on my mind every single day, it consumes my thoughts!  It is crazy how much my attitude has changed, and I actually want to work out, no I crave working out.  I am slowly falling in love with running, and I absolutely love to Body Rock (a 12 minute workout that has me sweating more than I ever thought I could)!  I love the saying, "Sweat is fat crying."  I want my fat to cry every day!! 
• When I am not working out, I sit on the computer and "pin" workouts and healthy meals and snacks from pinterest (feel free to follow me).
• With that being said, I have changed my eating about 80%.  That is a huge step for me.  I know that I want to do better, eat more cleanly, so to speak, but I also know it will take some time.  My hubby is not there yet, and since I still have to feed him, I still have to make foods he likes.  I have started swapping salads and veggies for chips and tots, and that is a HUGE start.  I have also swapped ice cream for Skinny Cow products and Oreos for Oreo flavored pudding.  I am in the process of giving up cokes, and have started replacing those with diet green teas from Lipton.  It is a long road, but I know the little changes will start making a big difference!
• I haven't seen any movement on the scale, which is very frustrating.  I figured that I would be down 10+ pounds by now.  I normally would just give up and binge and not look back, but I am changing.  I tend to binge on the weekends, then I spend the week trying to make up for what I did.  I have realized that, and I am going to be more honest with myself.

• I just got a job!!  It is parttime working 2 nights a week and 10 hours on Saturday!  I am going to be a sales consultant with CarMax!  I am so excited to start, and ready for a challenging job!
• I am so very ready for summer to start!  I have an overnight trip planned with the hubby, a soccer swim party, and a beach vacation planned already, and that is just in the first few weeks of June.

What have you been up to?

Any fun summer plans yet?

*Diet* Friendly CupCakes

I have found the best thing ever, thanks to Pinterest!!  If you are not familiar with Pinterest, get with the program ASAP because it will truly change your life.  It will help you get out of your dinner rut, give you awesome craft ideas, help motivate your weight loss, and give you some amazing dessert ideas.  I will be honest, most of the desserts that look so yummy are SO bad for you!  That is until I ran across my new favorite treat! 

Diet Friendly Cupcakes :)

They are so simple to make and even easier to eat!

You only need two ingredients, box cake mix and 12 oz of Diet Sprite or 7 Up!

First mix together cake mix and diet soda until lumps are gone.

Put your batter into muffin tins with cupcake liners and pop into preheated oven.

350 degrees for 20 minutes.

It is that simple!

The pinner that I got the recipe from used box vanilla pudding for the topping, but I used fat free whipped cream.  It was so delicious with out adding any fat and very few calories!

My girls loved helping me make the batter, and I did not have to worry about them licking the beaters since no eggs were used.

The cupcakes are so delicious you will have a hard time eating only one, but you don't have to feel as bad if you do eat two ;)

Happy Mother's Day!!

To all the moms:

Old Moms,

Young Moms,

Moms to be,

Grandmas,

Step moms,

Mother in Laws,

Supermoms,

and every mom in between,

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!

May your day be as fabulous as you are :)