I can bake without sampling...woohoo....

Ok so I am the person in the office that brings the homemade goodies (and not just at the holidays - all year through - just because I like to bake and cook and I am from the south and that is what southern women do - HA!).  I am also the one that decorates her office, who hides easter eggs around the building, and basically tries to make work fun.  After all work IS a four letter word.....

Anyway....since surgery I really haven't baked much - cooked? Yes, baked? nope.  But today we are celebrating a fellow coworkers birthday and I decided its time the ol Flamingokid makes a return (the baking one....not the one with bad habits).  So, this morning I got up early and made......Cinnamon Struedel Muffins to take to work.....the house smells devine and you know what.....(this is the best part) I don't even want to eat one, didn't even lick the mixing bowl!  I just don't want sweets at all......and that my friends is a very good thing!

Good for you....don't even attempt to start eating sweets...that way you won't want them!

Nice of you to do that for your co-workers.

Hug.....connie d

I dumped early on during the pureed stage on.....CARROTS.  Just plain ol cooked carrots (carrots, salt, and water.....you know nothing else added).    Doc said since I dumped on that - I am most likely highly sensitive to sugars (at least at this point) so yeah.....not even gonna go there again.

I am paranoid about anything with natural sugars at this point.....fruits scare me....just call me a big chicken HA!

"I am paranoid about anything with natural sugars at this point.....fruits scare me....just call me a big chicken HA!"

You say that like it's a BAD thing?!  Sometimes, fear can be a really great friend.  The WORST thing that could happen is you try evil things and find you DON'T dump!  I dump once in a while, but not as often as I should - I think dumping is our pouch's way of b*tch-slapping some sense into us. 

But even better would be to not give it the chance to do so.

You sure do crack me up, Ms. Darla!!!! 

I, too, love to bake.  I have special Christmas cookies that my family and friends ask for each year.  I've been debating if I can do it or not.  I have been tempted by sweets - so far just a bite here or there, but I know how quickly that can grow with a carb-o-holic like myself.  So... I think I may just back less than usual.  Oddly enough, I rarely ate 'em when I was baking anyway.  So I think I'll be OK.  And I am afraid of the dump-monster, too.  My pouch is a bit sensitve at times, and I don't want to risk a big ol' problem!

 I have surgery on the 28th and worry about fixing food for the kids.  I can't taste their "kid food" I shouldn't have and I do it more than I should.  I'll have to really work on trying to ignore things they can have and I can't. 

I hope if I slip I get ***** Slapped but good to instill the fear of dumping into me! Thanks Darla for the appropriate term, I like it, I'll steal it and I will use it!   If you don't mind!

Good for you for being nice and baking and still sticking to the program!  I applaude you!

You're welcome to it, sweetie!  I hope you DO dump!  (how's THAT sound???  )