and the numbers are...

Yesterday was my weigh-in day. Except, the numbers I saw were HORRID!! 161.0 pounds. Last week, when I re-started Weight Watchers, I weighed 159.4. I had a bad eating weekend. My dad's wedding Saturday, company all weekend, big BBQ yesterday. Guess Holiday weekends do that to you. Anyway, I wasn't happy with what I saw on the scale yesterday, so I stepped on this AM after I got out of the shower. Three times it said 159.0#, which means I lost .4#, and this my friends is the number I'm using for my weigh in! Then to top it all off, this AM I got AF at work, didn't think she should be visiting already, but I guess it's been a month. Blah! But, afterall this is a new week with lots of room for improvement!

Today's eats:

Breakfast:

• 2 Eggo Nutrigrain Whole Wheat Waffles: 3 points


• 8 oz 1% milk: 2 points


• Total: 5 points

Lunch:

• English muffin pizzas (light english muffin, 1/8 c. spaghetti sauce, 1/8 c. pizza cheese, 4 turkey pepperonis): 3.5 points


• Diet Dr. Pepper: 0 points


• Total: 3.5 points

Snack:

• 2-Nestle Crunch Stix: 4.5 points (had a downfall moment, thank you AF!)


• diet dr. pepper: 0 points


• Total: 4.5 points

Dinner:

• 1-1/2 cups oatmeal with 1 T. sugar: 5 points


• 1c. 1% milk: 2 points


• Total: 7 points

Total points used for the day: 20 points

Water intake: 44 oz.

Exercise: Chasing after the kids while working on the camper!

Tomorrow, I have some improvements to make. Get in more than 44 oz of water and eat better. Try not to give in to chocolate cravings induced by AF and exercise. We have a lunch and learn during lunch tomorrow, hopefully it's something good and healthy! :)

new day

Day four is starting out well so far. However lunch may be difficult. We're having a lunch meeting at work at Pizza Ranch. So it should be interesting however.

For breakfast:

• 2 eggo whole wheat nutrigrain waffles: 3 points
• 1/2 T. powdered sugar: 1/2 point
• 8 oz 1% milk: 2 points

Breakfast total: 5-1/2 points

Off to work! Check back later for an update on rest of the day! Wish me luck during lunch today!

Okay, so I totally blew it at lunch. 16.5 points total. YIKES!!! We went to Pizza Ranch. I had a good size salad with fat free ranch dressing, a little cheese. Two small slices of Chicken Broccoli Alfredo Pizza. One small slice of dessert pizza and diet coke. That leaves me 2 points for dinner tonight. I knew it was a BAD idea to go there for lunch. But we were having a meeting and that's where the Doctor chose to go. It was that or Chinese.

I made a quick dinner for tonight. Left over rotisserie chicken cut up, left over Uncle Ben's Chicken and Wild Rice, and a can of Campbell's Healthy Request Cream of Chicken Soup. Hopefully it'll be good and low in points. I think I need to try and go for a walk or something tonight. But it is the season finale of Grey's Anatomy. Maybe I'll do some weights during that. Thankfully tomorrow is a new day.

an okay day.

Day #3, went okay. Not the best, but okay. We had a staff meeting at lunch today, so I tried to take it easy, but had a small piece of dessert. Also got in a 45 minute walk tonight with Kevin and the kids, so that was nice. I think I got about 66 oz of water in today and am drinking a little more as I type this. Not looking forward to the weekend and all the food. My dad is getting remarried on Saturday and they are having a catered meal and hopefully I'll have some healthy choices to pick from. Then Monday we're having a BBQ at Uncle Gene's. So I know that'll be another food filled day. At least it works in my favor that my weigh in is Monday morning, so I'll have a week to work around whatever it is I have on Monday. Hopefully I can do the best.

Today for breakfast I had my "McMuffin" and 8 oz of milk. Which equaled 7 points.

For lunch I had a turkey and co-jack sandwich on whole wheat bread, with tomato, lettuce, spicy mustard. For 6.5 points. A lot for a sandwich, but the bread alone was 3 points! Wowza! Then I had a small serving of Garden Salsa Sun Chips: 1.5 points. A third cup of watermelon: .5 points, and some baby carrots: 0 points. And a Diet Coke. My lunch total was: 10.5 points. Which included a small piece of a strawberry/cream cheese/pudding/graham cracker crust dessert.

For dinner I made a homemade pizza. I used Jimmy Dean Lite Pork Sausage and Hormel Turkey Pepperoni to make it. I had two small slices: 6 points. Some baby carrots: 0 points and a glass of milk for 2 points. So 8 points for dinner.

Points used today: 25.5
Flex points remaining: 33
Activity points earned: 2
Water intake: 66+ oz
Exercise: 45 minute walk pushing the stroller.

Overall the day wasn't too bad. I dipped into my activity points a little, which I hoped I wouldn't. But not too bad. Day three is over. On to day four.

day 2.

Well, today went well. One of the Doctors bought donuts, and I resisted. Normally I'd be all over them, I love me some chocolate custard filled bismarks. But I resisted the temptation, that and I was extremely busy all day!


I had the tastiest breakfast today. And "egg mcmuffin" of sorts. A whole wheat english muffin, 1/4 cup Egg Beaters with a little season salt, microwaved for 30 seconds in a Corning Ware custard dish, put on top of english muffin, topped with half slice of honey ham and half slice of Colby cheese. Very good and filling. Only5 points. But I think tomorrow I may cut the ham into quarters instead, it seemed like a lot of ham. Also, that would cut the points by maybe 1/2 a point.
Breakfast:

• Egg McMuffin-homemade: 5 points
• 11 oz 1% milk: 3 points (this was my meal breaker, but I love milk!)

Breakfast points total: 8 points

Had 44 oz of water before lunch.

Lunch:

• Ham and Cheese rolled in a tortilla and warmed, handful of Goldfish Crackers, grape tomatoes and baby carrots: 6 points



• 8 oz Country time lemonade: 1 point



• 1/4 of a Hershey Chocolate Bar: 1.5 points

Lunch total: 8.5 points

I had a quarter of a Hershey Bar to curb my craving, so I didn't go back to work and grab a donut for "dessert"

I drank another 22 oz of water this afternoon.

For dinner we are having rotisserie chicken from the deli, Uncle Ben's Chicken Wild Rice, a couple deli pasta salads and veggies. We chose the rotisserie over the fried, due to the fat factor! I had a coupon to get a whole rotisserie chicken or 8 pc. fried chicken for $3.99. Just couldn't pass it up!

Dinner:

• Rotisserie Chicken, small serving white meat: 3 points


• 3/4 cup cooked green beans: 0 points


• 1/2 cup Uncle Ben's Chicken and Wild Rice: 2 points


• Small serving Cucumber and Tomato salad from the Deli: 1 point


• 1 cup 1% milk: 2 points

Total points: 8

Snack:

• 8 oz Country Time Lemonade: 1 point

The kids and I went for a 50 minute walk tonight with Kelly and Logan. It was really a workout pushing both kids in the double stroller. The combined weight of the two kids is about 50 pounds, plus probably another 35 pounds of resistance for the stroller weight. So I would say it was a good workout! I felt good afterwards.

• Total water intake: 66 pounds


• Total points used: 25.5 points


• Activity points earned: 3 points (50 min brisk walk)


• Activity points used: 1.5


• Weekly Flex points remaining 33.

I think today was another successful day. Hoping it can continue, especially with the upcoming weekend/Holiday. I haven't had a pop since Sunday. Feelin' pretty good about that! I feel really good about this. I lost almost 25 pounds last summer on WW, I'm hoping I can lose the remaining 15 pounds. Here's to another day!

Back at it...day 1

I've decided I must change my eating habits! I've been eating too freely lately and am starting to get what I affectionately call a "fat ass", well not really, but I can tell my jeans just aren't fitting the way the did a few months earlier and I hate the "flab" hanging over the top of them. Blech! After losing almost 25 pounds from May-September of last year, I KNOW I can do this! So this morning I rejoined Weightwatchers.com and hopefully blogging EVERY day! We will see how it goes. Maybe if I post my food journal, that will help me out a little! Should be interesting with the upcoming Holiday!



Weight as of this morning: 159.6 pounds

Goal weight 145 pounds by August 1st.

I'm alloted 24 points per day with 36 flex points for the week.

Wish me luck!

Monday, May 19, 2008

Breakfast:

• 2 slices whole wheat toast = 3 points



• 1 T. bumble and brown spread= 1 point



• 8 oz orange juice= 1 points

Breakfast total: 5 points

By 10 am, I've already drank 22 oz of water. Off to fill up my cup again!!

By 11 am, I've conqured 44 oz of water. Almost time for lunch.

I warmed left over homemade mac and cheese for the kids and I decided to go with something less fattening for lunch. Kashi go lean crunch cereal.

Lunch

• 1 cup Kashi GoLean Crunch! Cereal = 3 points


• 2/3 c. 2% milk over cereal = 2 points

Lunch total: 5 points.

Snack

• 1 medium tortilla, 1/2 slice honey ham, 1 slice colby cheese warmed and rolled up=5 points


• handful of baby carrots = 0 points


• 1/4 cup grape tomatoes= 0 points


• small serving of Goldfish snack crackers=1 point

Snack total: 6 points

66 oz of water down for the day. And it's only 4:20!

Now to start thinking of what to make for dinner.

Dinner

• soft shell taco, with meat, cheese, taco sauce, Low-fat Sour cream, lettuce = 8 points
• 1 cup 1% milk = 2 points

Dinner total: 10 points

Total points for used for the day: 26 points

Flex points used: 2 points

Goal for tomorrow: Stay within my 24 points. Drink lots of water and get out and exercise. It's awful cloudy/rainy here today. Maybe after I get the kids to bed I can hit the elliptical downstairs or at least the weight machine.