Skinny Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Banana Bread

 

Happy New Year, friends!!

 

So, tell me. Are you making New Year’s resolutions?? 

 

I always make one and only one New Year’s resolution every year. Mostly because I’m setting new goals constantly, so the idea of annual resolutions seems a little redundant to me. And daunting! Having a list of goals that require an entire year to maintain always seems a little overwhelming to me. Which is why I got in the habit of picking one, bite-sized, manageable goal each year.

 

I think the craziest resolution I ever set for myself was in 2015 when I was pregnant with my youngest. I resolved not to eat any french fries all year (the underlying goal was to reduce my sodium intake during my pregnancy, but that didn’t feel “bite-sized” enough)! 

 

I made it until August. I had to cut out dairy and chocolate while I was nursing for a little while, and I decided there was no way I was going to live a life without dairy, chocolate, and french fries. So I gave them back to myself. No regrets there, folks.

 

 

 

My goal for this year…. yes. You guessed it. The age-old, ever present goal to lose weight. But as I said, I need to break big goals like that down into bite-sized pieces. 

 

So my actual goal is simply to track all of my food in iTrackBites (a Weight Watchers copycat app). Whether I go over points is irrelevant to the actual goal. I just have to track everything.

 

Day 3 and going strong y’all ;). 

 

If you know Weight Watchers at all, you know all fruit is fair game for no points, including bananas! I’ve tried many, many “plan friendly” banana bread recipes (in my 13+ years of an on-again-off-again relationship with WW), and this is by far the best one I’ve ever tried. It’s perfectly moist and soft without being too dense or gummy, which is a common problem when you’re baking low fat and low sugar. 

 

And best of all, it just tastes like really good homemade banana bread– NOT like diet food!

 

 

 

I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as my family does, and keep going strong with those resolutions!!!

 

Skinny Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Banana Bread