Diet sweets and diwali

So the diwali is still here.
While my leg is recovering from shin splints, I decided to do some light walking on the road.

Gym is closed due to diwali, remember? :-(

So here I was feeling good about doing a light walk and sticking to my diet. Everyone else was easting plates full of sweet sevaiyaan!
What do you do when people tease you? You make something better tasting and yet something within your diet and tease them back ;-) B-)
So I went into the kitchen to make some savoury sevaiyaan fully loaded with veggies.. yummy, delightful, masaledar yet healthy. Win win..!! :party :party

By the time sun kissed the middle of the sky(I am just trying to use fancier words like those for an afternoon), my mother decided to feed me kheer! Now why on earth mothers are so emotional? Well, may be because they are mothers :-D
So she and me reached an agreement. I would only eat kheer worth below 150 Calories. Now that's where I trapped my mother ;-)
She asked me calorific value of milk, vermicilli and sugar. As soon as I told her the numbers, she looked frozen in confusion. Now that looked like a perfect occasion to eliminate ghee from recipe, substitute buffalo milk with low fat milk and cut down sugar to just 1/4 amount of the original.
I told her to grab some kesar to give it a rich feel. Kesar wouldn't make us fat.. :party
So I ended up having a small katori of kesar sevaiyaan kheer. Still happy though,  it was well under 150 calories that I budgeted for it. I swapped my lunch with mixed fruits and some salad. So still a good day.

Hope all of you are sticking to the diet as well. It's 80% diet and 20% exercise towards a good body.

If you are craving some sweets, prefer something lighter like kheer. Which have bulk and yet a little forgiving.

Have a happy and nutritious diwali.

P.s. I am avoiding crackers too. I want healthy lungs, beautiful skin and hair too. Pollution makes it ugly. Please minimise the pollution.

Love,
~ Determined Diva