A STORM of Baking!

So, three guesses as to what I did all weekend. Here's a clue:

Yep. It was a STORM of baking!

I made 2 regular pound cakes, 1 sweet potato pound cake, 2 loaves of homemade whole wheat bread, and an experimental batch of Thin Mint Cupcakes.

This is where it gets really hard for me to resist temptation. I want so badly to taste everything to make sure it tastes good, but once I start... I just can't stop. I want to eat all 24 mini cupcakes instead of just trying one. And let's not even talk about the chocolate ganache that I dipped the cupcakes in... sigh. It led me to the conclusion that...

Cupcakes are EVIL!


Okay, so cupcakes aren't really the evil enemy here- I am! I REALLY had to stop and make myself think this weekend. Everything that went in the mouth had to be calculated into points and written down. That makes me stop and think more than anything else! I don't want to blow all my daily points on a cupcake- it's just not worth it. Plus, I've really been trying to exercise self-control.

In the end, I ended up trying one slice of bread and eating one mini cupcake. Not too bad, right? I didn't feel guilty and beat myself up over it, either- I just calculated the points and added them to my tracker. No sweat.

I don't know about y'all, but self-control is where I struggle the most. I really had to pray for self-control as I was in the kitchen and had lots of tasty treats around me. I kept thinking about "Made to Crave", where Lysa says:

"Jesus sets a beautiful example of breaking this viscous cycle of being consumed by cravings. Jesus had been in a desert, fasting for forty days... And yet, He held strong and
set a powerful example of how to escape the viscous grip of temptation."

That helped me tremendously when I was trying to exercise self-control! I've been hearing more and more that God doesn't want us to just surrender a piece of our lives to Him- He wants all of us. For me, that includes my eating. It includes my discipline to exercise. I want EVERYTHING I do to give Him glory!

What do you do when faced with temptation? How to do resist cravings? What's your tip for exercising self-control??