{"id":8947,"date":"2011-09-09T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=8947"},"modified":"2011-09-09T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T15:22:11","slug":"any-tips-for-not-sampling-the-frosting-and-the-candy-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/any-tips-for-not-sampling-the-frosting-and-the-candy-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Any tips for NOT sampling the frosting.. and the candy and&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I re-joined WeightWatchers.<\/p>\n<p>And, even though I had a crazy traveling fiasco that left me in the airport MUCH longer than anticipated last weekend, and even though I attended my grandmother&#8217;s 100th year birthday celebration weekend with some delicious meals, I still had a fantastic first week with a great loss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am a loser and I am so proud of it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, however, is cake baking day for my son&#8217;s birthday party.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a combo affair with two other boys and we invited the whole 4th grade (which is just two classes, but it&#8217;s still a lot of kids!) and I am the cake baker lady.<\/p>\n<p>This means that, in addition to the cake, I\u00a0 am about to mix up a lot of butter, powdered sugar, milk and lemon to make my son&#8217;s favorite frosting&#8230; and mine, too. And then I&#8217;ll pull out the Skittles to decorate.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, help me to keep my fingers out of that bowl!<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to break out the gum. Or keep a tall glass of water nearby. Or set all of my Weight Watchers materials out. Or hang my tiniest dress on the pantry doorknob to haunt me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyone else have tips to keep me in line and on target today?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I re-joined WeightWatchers. And, even though I had a crazy traveling fiasco that left me in the airport MUCH longer than anticipated last weekend, and even though I attended my grandmother&#8217;s 100th year birthday celebration weekend with some delicious meals, I still had a fantastic first week with a great loss. I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-beauty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8948,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions\/8948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}