This is the odyssey of my tiny victory.
I have an amazing Zoku popsicle maker and every day I was creating three delicious popsicles out of dark chocolate almond milk and almost-good-for-you mini, semisweet chocolate chips (Enjoy Life brand--gluten, dairy and soy free). This popsicle maker stays in your freezer and then creates the frozen treats within ten minutes. My problem was that in that ten minutes, I was popping about 1/4 bag of additional chips into my mouth.
Every day I would talk to myself about it. And every day I would not listen very well.
Then recently I was out of town for three days, out of reach of my Zoku and my chips. I came home determined to do better so sure enough, I switched to my Ninja blender and made a yummy smoothie out of two cups dark chocolate almond milk and one frozen banana.
But something still felt "too much" about it. I had this sense that I should be consuming only one cup of dark chocolate almond milk and 1/2 frozen banana.
I have a history of struggling with small portions. If I am ordering and have a choice of small, medium or large, I have only begun in recent years to talk myself out of large. I have never ordered a small anything.
So yesterday I managed to listen to myself tell myself to pour only 1 1/2 cups of almond milk into the blender along with, um, a whole banana. But that's a start.
I am saying out loud (and in print) that today I am reaching my goal of 1 cup almond milk and 1/2 banana: my tiny victory.
Is there a tiny victory in your day waiting to be reached?
