Spring Break/Weight Loss Hiatus/Red Alert

     I'm in the middle of a weight loss red alert.  It's exactly four weeks to the day that I HAVE to lose enough lbs. to fit into my vintage dresses.  It's that time of year, Easter (Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender!!!) is just around the corner.  You might have noticed that recently my posts have gotten fewer and farther between.  That is due in part to my focus on eating light, as opposed to delicious, food.  I really haven't felt inspired because I spend too much time counting calories and fat grams.  Also, I've doubled my workout load and so the time I used to spend on my butt blogging is now spent working it out instead.

     Hopefully in a month I'll be svelte and rejuvenated(after vacay) and ready to make some super delicious food.  In the meantime, I'm going to take time off of blogging and spend it working out and depriving myself of tasty food and counting more calories and fat grams and reading instead of watching TV (burns more calories) and drinking copious amounts of water and taking my measurements and walking my baby in the park and crossing my fingers in hopes that four weeks is enough time to undo 10 months of eating whatever I want.  I'll leave you with a recipe for the only sweet treat (if all goes according to plan) I'll be ingesting these next few weeks. 

Banana and Coconut Protein Smoothie!

1 banana

1 cup coconut milk- Silk Pure Coconut Vanilla flavored

1 scoop Chocolate Protein Powder

1 scoop Vanilla Frozen Dairy Dessert aka Ice Milk-very low fat(omit if on red alert)

1 graham cracker(reduced fat or omit if on red alert)

Place all ingredients in blender and blend.

Calories-436

Fat-11 grams

Sugar-42 grams

Protein-30 grams

Red Alert

Calories-216

Fat-7 grams

Sugar-25 grams

Protein-26 grams

Bon Appetit?