Real Pleasures in Baking

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xara
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Real Pleasures in Baking

Post by xara » Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:03 pm

I am an excellent baker. My history of baking, in addition to eating far too much the finished baked goods, includes plenty of licking the bowl, licking the spatula, eating a few chocolate chips as I bake....

Today I needed to bake for a celebration of a friend's birthday. As this is my fifth week of No-S'ing, doing so with no slip-ups came quite naturally! I did not lick or eat anything. I will take the chocolate banana bread to a meeting tonight, and will not have any (There are 15 of us, and we celebrate birthdays. I refuse to have 15 extra Special days for this purpose!)

The three Real Pleasures that I found in baking today are:

1) It was a real pleasure to smell what I was making.

2) It was a real pleasure to put a piece in the freezer and look forward to eating it on Saturday.

3) It was a real pleasure to be able to stick to No-S'ing!

vmsurbat
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Post by vmsurbat » Thu Sep 24, 2015 6:26 am

Congrats! It was a real pleasure to read your success!
Vicki in MNE
7! Yrs. with Vanilla NoS, down 55+lb, happily maintaining and still loving it!

ironchef
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Post by ironchef » Thu Sep 24, 2015 11:55 am

Well done!

I'm also a keen baker of sweets and bread. This week I baked a dozen fruit mince and spice muffins. You are spot on - they smelled fantastic. My husband, son and old work mates enjoyed them. I didn't eat any, because it was on Wednesday. If you had told me 3 years ago that this would be possible I would have laughed.

Eileen7316
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Post by Eileen7316 » Thu Sep 24, 2015 12:12 pm

It's been a revelation to me this week that I can say "no" to something very tempting and be okay just a short while later. In fact, it's nice not to have regret over saying "yes" in the moment.
Eileen

oolala53
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Post by oolala53 » Sun Oct 11, 2015 4:59 pm

That's fantastic! I could never get the hang of it. Kudos.
Count plates, not calories. 11 years "during"
Age 69
BMI Jan/10-30.8
1/12-26.8 3/13-24.9 +/- 8-lb. 3 yrs
9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
1/21-23

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