PB&J Parfait

A quick dessert I whipped up for my BF using leftover no-sugar-added peanut butter cookies.

 PB&J Parfait

Ingredients

• 1 sugar-free vanilla pudding cup (60 calories or less)
• 2 no-sugar-added peanut butter cookies
• 4 T + 1 t sugar-free strawberry preserves

Directions

• Crumble one peanut butter cookie into the bottom of a pretty glass.
• Top cookie with 2 tablespoons of strawberry preserves.
• Top preserves with half of pudding cup.
• Repeat layering process, using last cookie, another two tablespoons of preserves and remaining half of pudding cup.
• Finish parfait with 1 teaspoon of strawberry preserves on top of last pudding layer.

Serves 1

Approximately 200 calories

Don’t Think. Do.

Newsweek’s Q&A with author Stephanie Klein about her recently published book called “Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp” covers the details of how Klein, an overweight child, spent three summers at fat camp trying to shed her excess pounds and the nasty nickname “Moose”.

One particular question and response in the article really resonated with me.

You’ve said you’re fed up with what you call “fatnalysis.” Why?
People can analyze it to death. People can say you’re fat because you’re filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said I don’t need to focus on this anymore. It doesn’t matter why I’m fat. Let’s fix it. I don’t think fixing it involves searching into my past and analyzing every last reason why I like cheese. It’s much more important for me to focus on my daily habits and what can I do to possibly change certain habits and give myself tools to get through whatever I have to get through. Especially as a child, you don’t need to hear about it all the time. Focus on developing talents.

We spend so much time trying to figure out why we overeat that we frequently get stuck there. It ends up being all analysis and no action. Klein is right; in the end, it doesn’t matter why we’re fat. We just need to do something about it. We know how to do it; we just need to develop the habit of doing it, using whatever coping mechanisms (healthy ones, that is!) that work for us along the way.