You had me at "Mini cheesecakes"

These truly are as good as they look! Make a batch of these the next time you need to bring a dessert. Mmmmmmm! Use whichever topping you like.



Mini Cheesecakes

desserts
POINTS® Value: 3
Servings: 12

Ingredients
12 item(s) *vanilla wafer(s)
3 oz cream cheese
12 oz fat-free cream cheese
1/2 cup(s) sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 item(s) egg
1 cup(s) Comstock/Wilderness Lite cherry, pie filling
Instructions

(*I input the recipe with red.fat and regular vanilla cookies and while there is a 3.5 pt difference in the entire recipe, each mini cheesecake still comes out to 3 pts)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin tins with 12 foil cupcake papers. Place a vanilla wafer in the bottom of each cupcake paper.
2. In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and fat-free cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar and vanilla and mix well. Add eggs and beat until smooth.
3. Pour cheesecake mixture into muffin tins. Bake for 20 minutes or until centers are almost set. Cool. Refrigerate 2 hours or overnight.
4. Decorate cheesecake with cherry pic filling.
Makes 12 cheesecakes/servings.
(I don't know if you tried the last cheesecake recipe I posted but I finally made it and really didn't care for it personally so I think I'm going to delete that post. It just looked so good I couldn't help but post it.)

Tame the Emotional Eating Beast for Good

3 Ways to Get Back on Track
-- By Dean Anderson, Behavioral Psychology Expert

Read the FULL ARTICLE.

These tips are so helpful, now if I could just remember them!

The good news is that your Emotional Eating Beast is a pretty dim-witted critter, and you can trick it into going back where it came from without too much effort, if you know how to do it. Here are some tricks that usually work:

1. Play the Stalling Game. Your Beast has a very short attention span, and if you can manage to stall it for just a few minutes on its way to the kitchen, it will often forget why it woke up in the first place, and happily go back where it came from.
2. Play the Distraction/Substitution Game. If your Beast doesn’t fall for the Stalling Game, you can still use your superior mental capacities to keep the upper hand. The key here is to keep in mind that what your Beast really wants isn’t food, but emotional comfort. If you can find ways to comfort yourself that don’t involve food, the need to eat will go away very quickly.

3. Play the Good Beast/ Bad Beast Game. Even though the Beast may seem powerful and overwhelming, it is just as afraid of you as you are of it. It knows full well that you can and, someday, probably will just tell it to go take a hike, and that will be the end of the game.

How to Start Eating Healthier 15 Simple Ways to Eat Better Today

Make Healthy Eating a Habit
Eating healthier doesn’t have to be overwhelming. If you want to adopt healthy habits that will last, then the easiest way to do it is by making small, gradual changes. Don’t expect too much from yourself too soon—it takes about a month for any new action to become habit.
Read the full article.

6 Simple Steps to bringing out Bavery, Courage and Adventure

Click on this linkto get the full Oprah article.
I thought these steps applied well to our weightloss journey's. After all, we're all looking for life changes not just body changes aren't we?

Step 6: Find comfort in discomfort.
"Remember, it's supposed to hurt; you're supposed to feel sore," says Ford. She's not talking about just the physical aches and pains of the couch potato turned triathlon competitor, but also the mental and emotional uneasiness of the would-be CEO or aspiring artist. "Accept that you'll never get rid of self-doubt," Kashdan says. "An adventurous person will always have moments of feeling like a fraud—it's a sign that you're creating new roles for yourself, that you're evolving. It means you're doing great, passionate work."

25 Ways to Get Back on Track Today

Don't Give Up on Your Goals!
-- By Nicole Nichols, Fitness Instructor & Health Educator

Not long ago, you were energetic and determined to start your healthy lifestyle. Starting with enthusiasm and hope, you watched your food intake diligently, exercised like it was going out of style, and even avoided the temptation that seemed to lurk around every corner. You were confident that you were going to reach your goals once and for all!

Then certain tragedy struck! You ate an extra piece of birthday cake. Realizing you had “blown” your diet, you ate another and another and couldn’t get it together the next day either. Or worse, you missed one workout, and that turned into a whole week away from the gym. After that, your momentum to start over again was gone, and your gym bag hasn’t left the closet since.

Every time you misstep on your healthy journey, you have two choices: to keep walking backwards, which will surely take you even further away from your goals; or to accept your lack of perfection as normal and forgivable, and take not one, but two positive steps down the path that brings your closer to the future you want.

Read the FULL ARTICLE.

The Surefire Way to Sabotage Your Diet

(Even though I know better, I find myself still doing this.)
If you're still labeling foods as "good" and "bad," you may be hurting your weight-loss efforts. Find out why putting foods off-limits won't help you take off the pounds.
Do you ever notice that as soon as you decide a certain food is "off-limits", it's the food you crave more than any other? Read more in this Sparkpeople article.

No Bake Graham Cracker Cheesycake!!

This recipe looks too easy, too good and too low in calories to be true! I want to try it very soon!
I put the recipe on e-tools and it comes up with 1 pt per square. (I only did one layer of graham crackers and used regular since I couldn't find red. fat. Also, there are 8pts in can of lite cherry pie filling. If that spreads over the whole dessert, that's barely 2 pts per square! I'll post what I think when it's done.)
No Bake Graham Cracker Cheesycake

desserts
POINTS® Value: 1
Servings: 24

Preparation Time: 0 min
Cooking Time: 0 min
Level of Difficulty: Easy
Course: desserts

Ingredients
8 oz Kraft Philadelphia Free Fat-Free Cream Cheese
1 cup(s) 1% low-fat milk
2 Tbsp lemon juice, canned or bottled
1 oz fat-free sugar-free instant vanilla pudding mix
8 oz Cool Whip Free Whipped Topping
27 small item(s) graham cracker(s)