I make oatmeal for my kids. It’s cheap, right? And good to have on hand when you’re out of milk, bread, eggs, everything else. One of those last resort breakfasts that you whip up for emergencies. But me? Eat the stuff? No thanks.

Well, I gave it a try over the weekend. I ate oatmeal — the real kind, not the cardboard one-minute quick oats that my husband can’t stand — but the real, cooks-in-five-minutes oatmeal. And you know what? I was FULL. Stuffed. Until lunch.

My one bowl of oatmeal kept me from snacking all morning. And it contained 150 calories, 1g of sugar, 5g of protein, and 4g of fiber. According to the Quaker Oats people, “eating a good-sized bowl of oatmeal for 30 days will actually help remove cholesterol from your body.” It’s also supposed to act like a sponge, cleaning out my arteries. Interesting.

Oatmeal is cheap, easy to cook, fills you up so you don’t eat junk food, and lowers your cholesterol. So, have you had a bowl of oatmeal lately?

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Ode to Oatmeal

Now this is not what you think! What it means is she has lots of dieters in her sidebar who are being bold enough to admit their pre-diet weight and update their progress. I didn’t send her my weight, but she added me to her blogroll, so people can check here to see my progress.

I’ve lost 15 pounds since April — from working out at Curves until I hurt my knee in July. Then from the South Beach Diet. Now I’m back on track, getting to the gym for some low-impact classes like cycling. And Curves again! I’ve got about 10-15 pounds to go, and a LOT of muscle toning. I haven’t seen my abs in years.

Thanks to my new cool ClubMom water bottle, I’ll be fueling up on more water while I work out. And check out the ClubMom Health & Fitness tips! I may have to send them one of my own.

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Clubmoms’ Diet & Fitness Tips

Do you find yourself making excuses on the weekend? I do. Here are a few:

1. It’s Friday night. I’ve had a long week.
2. We’re eating out, and this makes it OK to go off my diet.
3. I deserve a break!
4. I have to deal with ___ (so and so) on the weekend, so I need some chocolate/carbs/ice-cream.
5. It’s Saturday. I need a day off.
6. It’s Sunday. My day of rest.

Then you head back into Monday, trying to play catch-up, wondering how in the world your scale went up three pounds over a weekend! Here’s some motivation for you:Barbara Curtis, mom of 12 (some adopted), has been dieting in a healthy way and has lost over 60 pounds. To keep herself going, she posts pictures of FAT people on her refrigerator door. Check this picture out.

Barbara writes:

I’m sorry, but there just is nothing sexy about fat.

I think I’m going to make a collage of pictures like this and put them on my refrigerator door to remind me that no matter how hungry or bored or restless I get during the day, no detours from my diet are worth the results which are sure to follow down the line if I don’t continue to exercise self-control.

Not that my goal is to be sexy. But I am hoping to be more the woman God intended me to be, using food for sustenance and not misusing it for other purposes. Why is gluttony the only sin we pretend is not a sin?

Way to go, Barbara! You rock! Keep up your diet — and we’ll be coming along right with you. (Hats off to Amazing Shrinking Mom for leading me to Barbara. “We link; therefore we love.” Yeah baby.)

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It’s the Weekend. Hang in there!

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