Week 3 Weigh-In

Week Three Weigh-In following vacation:

170.0 pounds. Equals: 1.8 pound gain from week two.

Week 2 Weigh-in

Weighed in Sunday, May 17th, a day early, we headed to Duluth Sunday morning and would be gone for my WI on Monday.

Results: 168.2 pounds which equals a 2 pound loss.

w2, d4

Survived another day! Already day four of week two. Three more sleeps until we leave for vacation!! Went to some garage sales today and walking tonight after dinner, lots of activity points today!

Today’s Menu…

Breakfast:
2 slices light wheat toast: 1 point
1.5 tsp I can't Believe it's not butter: 1.5 points
1/2 cup fresh pineapple: .5 points
1/2 cup fresh strawberries: 0 points
skim milk: 2 points

Breakfast total: 5 points

Morning snack:
no morning snack

Snack total: 0 points

Activity: 3 hours of walking garage sales carrying Addie in her infant seat or in the wrap. Counted as 1-1/2 hours of leisure walking: 4 points


Lunch:

McDonald's Grilled Bacon Ranch Salad: 5 points
diet coke: 0 points

Lunch total: 5 points


Afternoon snack:


Hershey's Snacksters: 2pts
1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese: 1.5 points
Snack total: 3.5 points


Dinner:
2-1/4# burgers (90/10 ground beef)no bun: 8.5 points
2-american cheese slices: 4 points
1/8 c. ketchup: .5 points
tater tots: 5.5 points

Dinner total:
18.5 points

Evening activity:
35 minute brisk walk w/ Kevin and the kids (including hills!): 2 points

Dessert/Evening Snack:
no dessert

Dessert total:


Daily points used: 32 points
Points left for the day out of 36: 4/36
Flex Points used out of 35/week: 1/35
Activity points earned for the day: 6 points

wk 2, d 2

Survived another day! It's getting easier once you get into the groove of things. This time I'm fully utilizing the WW website and before I went grocery shopping this morning, I grabbed some recipes off of the WW website. I never really used them before the last time that I did WW. Tonight I made a couple things off there for dinner, turkey meat loaf and mashed sweet potatoes. Both recipes are below!

Today’s Menu…

Breakfast:
2 pieces of light wheat bread toasted: 1 point
1-1/2 tsp butter: 1.5 points
orange juice: 2 points

Breakfast total: 4.5 points

Morning snack:
100 Cal Pack Hershey's Snacksters: 2 points

Snack total: 2 points

Activity: 90 minutes of grocery shopping solo w/ all three kids: 4 activity points

Lunch:
KFC Grilled Chicken breast, didn't eat the skin: 4 pts
1 serving mashed potatoes and gravy: 3 pts
1 biscuit: 5 points
nothing to drink.

Lunch total: 12 points


Afternoon snack:
none

Snack total:


Dinner:
Turkey Meat Loaf (WW):6 points
Mashed Sweet Potatoes (WW): 1 point
skim milk: 2 points

Dinner total: 9 points


Dessert/Evening Snack:
banana: 2 pts
hershey's snacksters: 2 pts
diet dr pepper: 0 pts

Dessert total: 4 pts


Daily points used: 31.5
Points left for the day out of 36: 4.5
Flex Points used out of 35/week: 1/35
Activity points earned for the week: 5

Turkey Meat Loaf
POINTS® value | 6
Servings | 5
Preparation Time | 15 min
Cooking Time | 43 min
Level of Difficulty | Easy


Ingredients
1 tbsp olive oil
3/4 cup(s) onion(s), finely chopped
1/4 cup(s) green pepper(s), finely chopped
2 medium garlic clove(s), minced
1/4 cup(s) low-fat shredded cheddar cheese, sharp
1/4 cup(s) seasoned bread crumbs
1 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
1 tsp ketchup
1/2 tsp table salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 large egg(s), lightly beaten
1 1/4 pound(s) uncooked ground turkey breast
1 spray(s) cooking spray
1/2 cup(s) ketchup
1 tbsp unpacked light brown sugar
1 tsp mustard

Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F.

Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion, bell pepper and garlic; sauté 3 minutes. Cool.

Combine onion mixture, cheese and next 6 ingredients in a large bowl; toss to moisten bread. Crumble turkey over onion mixture; stir just until blended.

Pack meat mixture into an 8 x 4-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350°F for 35 minutes. Combine 1?2 cup ketchup, brown sugar and mustard in a small bowl; stir well.

Spread ketchup mixture over meat loaf and bake an additional 5 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes.

Remove meat loaf from pan. Cut into 10 slices. Yield: 5 servings (serving size: 2 slices).

Mashed Sweet Potatoes
POINTS® value | 1
Servings | 8
Preparation Time | 10 min
Cooking Time | 8 min
Level of Difficulty | Easy


Ingredients
3 medium sweet potato(es), peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks (about 2 pounds)
2 medium garlic clove(s), peeled
1/2 cup(s) plain fat-free yogurt, Greek-variety recommended
4 tsp sugar
1/8 tsp table salt, or more to taste
1/8 tsp black pepper, freshly ground, or to taste

Instructions:
Place potatoes and garlic in a large saucepan and pour in enough water to cover potatoes. Set pan over high heat and bring to a boil. Boil until potatoes are fork-tender, about 8 minutes.

Drain potatoes and garlic; transfer potatoes and garlic to a large bowl. Add yogurt and sugar to bowl; mash until smooth. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Yields about 1/2 cup per serving.

week 2, day 1

Weigh-in day!!
I weighed in this morning and with sticking with the plan all week with the exception of yesterday, the results are...

The scale read 170.0 pounds this morning which equals a 5.2 pound LOSS! Woo hoo!! Sure is a good motivator, that's for sure!!!

Today’s Menu…

Breakfast:
1 cup cheerios: 2 points
1/2 cup skim milk: 1 point
1 cup orange juice: 2 points

Breakfast total: 5 points

Morning snack:
2 sheets of graham crackers: 3 points

Snack total: 3 points


Lunch:
Subway Club (on the 6 grams of fat or less menu), with cheese, lettuce, tomato, black olives, spinach, green pepper, vinegar, oil and salt & pepper: 8 points
water to drink

Lunch total: 8 points

Afternoon snack:
Caramel Twix: 7 points (yikes!)

Snack total: 7 points


Dinner:
2 Homemade Black Bean/Corn/Beef burritos: 14 points

Dinner total: 14 points


Dessert/Evening Snack:


Dessert total:


Daily points used:
Points left for the day out of 36:
Flex Points used out of 35/week:
Activity points earned for the week:

week 1, day 7

MOTHER'S DAY!! Happy Mother's Day mamas!

Today’s Menu…

Breakfast:

none---bad I know!

Breakfast total:

Morning snack:

none

Snack total:

Lunch:

Noodles and Co. Pesto Cavatappi with chicken breast

Noodles and Co. Caesar side salad

diet coke

Lunch total: not sure of a total....ww website kept locking up on me!

Afternoon snack:

handful of popcorn at the Zoo:

Cold Stone Creamery's Strawberry Blonde--like it size: 15 points!

Snack total:

Dinner:

Chili's Grill and Bar:

Guiltless Carne Asada Steak

Diet Coke

Chips/Salsa/Queso

Dinner total: not sure of a total....ww website kept locking up on me!

Dessert/Evening Snack:

none

Dessert total:

Daily points used:

Points left for the day out of 36:

Flex Points used out of 35/week:

Activity points earned for the week:

I'm sure I went over on my points, the website kept locking up on me when I was trying to enter in all my food! But I still need to hold myself accountable for everything I had to eat today!! But we walked the entire zoo for about 3-1/2 hours!

week 1, day 6

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday...and I'm actually tracking. Woo hoo! :)

Today’s Menu…

Breakfast:
2 slices whole wheat light bread toasted: 1 point
1 T. I can't believe it's not butter: 1 point
1 cup of orange juice: 2 points

Breakfast total: 4 points

Morning snack:
Quaker Granola Bites Chocolate: 2 points
1 cup Skim milk: 2 points

Snack total: 2 points


Lunch:
Leftover Spaghetti Pizza: 6 points
1 cup skim milk: 2 points

Lunch total: 8 points


Afternoon snack:
Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwich: 2 points
Black bean and cheese roll-up: 2.5 points
Diet Dr Pepper: 0 points

Snack total: 4.5 points


Dinner:
4 oz Grilled Turkey Burger (no bun, no seasoning, no condiments): 4 points
homemade mac n cheese: 5 points
Skim milk: 2 points

Dinner total: 11 points

Dessert/Evening Snack:
Edy's Fruit Bar: 1 point

Dessert total: 1 point

Daily points used: 30.5 points
Points left for the day out of 36: 5.5 points
Flex Points used out of 35/week: 0/35
Activity points earned for the week: 7

No real activity today---cold and rainy. Just laundry and picking up the backyard full of toys so Kevin could mow tonight.

Happy Mother's Day tomorrow to all moms out there! We're headed to the MN Zoo and Chili's for dinner! Yum yum!!

week 1, day 5

Already day five, only two more days until the first weigh-in. I'm anxious. Hoping I lost something this week! When I did WW in the past, I wasn't real good about tracking on the weekends. But I'm hoping since I'm still on maternity leave, I'll get into a good groove before heading back to work, so once I'm back at work it'll be a no-brainer. Crossing my fingers anyway!

Today's Menu:

Breakfast: (we all got up late, so I didn't get breakfast before I took Amelia to school, so I just had a little of this, little of that for breakfast)
2 slices of whole wheat light bread: 1 point
1/2 T. I can't believe it's not butter: 1 point
1 large banana: 2 points
1 cup skim milk: 2 points
1 bag (90 cal pack) Quaker Granola Bites-Chocolate: 2 points

Breakfast total: 8 points

Morning Snack:
Fiber One Oats and Chocolate bar (on the way to pick Amelia up from Pre-School): 2 points

Snack total: 2 points

Lunch:
McD's SW Grilled Chicken Salad: 6 points (yes, I had this yesterday as well, but I picked up lunch for the Hubby and guys at the shop, and the kids and I ate with them as well.)
Diet Dr Pepper: 0 points

Lunch total: 6 points

Afternoon Snack:
1 bag 100 cal pack Chips Ahoy Thin Crisps: 2 points
Bean and cheese roll-up (whole wheat tortilla, 1/8 c. shredded cheddar, 1/8 c. black beans): 2.5 points

Snack total: 2.5 points

For dinner tonight we're having Fish and Chips---WW inspired! I'll post the points and recipe after dinner!

The chips didn't pan out too well, most of them got burnt! So I baked french fries for everyone else and I skipped them. I ate a few of the "chips" that didn't get burnt. For one serving, take a 12 oz baked potato, slice it, put it on a greased pan, spray the potatoes with cooking spray and season bake 30 min at 400 degrees flipping once. 12 oz potatoes=5 points. I only ate about 5 oz...I took care to weigh out 4-12 oz portions of potatoes before I baked them!

WW suggested broiling halibut w/ lemon pepper on it. Instead I used Tiliapia (that's what was in the freezer) and put lemon juice on it then lemon pepper seasoning and baked it while the potatoes baked. I also steamed carrots in the steamer and had a small side salad w/ light French dressing.

Dinner:
Fish and Chips Dinner: 5 points
1 cup skim milk: 2 points

Dinner total: 7 points

Dessert:
Edys Fruit Bar: 1 point

Dessert total: 1 point

Daily points used: 27.5 points

Points left for the day out of 36: 8.5 points

Flex Points used out of 35/week: 0

Activity points earned for the week: 7

week 1, day 4

Well, I survived another day! Woo hoo! I'm dead tired, but I'm making myself do my blog...it's how I help hold myself accountable other than adding up my points on ww.com. The only "activity" I had today was shopping...lots of it! Most of which was spent carrying the 13-1/2 pound baby in the Bjorn and sometimes pushing the double stroller with an almost 30# two year old and almost 40# four year old. That's gotta be some good resistance right?! At any rate, my legs ACHE tonight, must have gotten some good excerise then. We'll find out on Monday, when I weigh-in for the first time after starting WW.

Today's Menu...

Breakfast:
Homemade "Egg McMuffin"---100 calorie english muffin: 1 point
1/4 cup egg substitute: 1 point
slice of American cheese: 2 points
1 cup Skim milk: 2 points

Breakfast total: 6

*Side note...A McD's egg McMuffin sans the Canadian bacon is 290 calories, which would equate to 6 points...just for the sandwich, that doesn't include a drink! Yikes!!

Morning Snack:
Crystal Light Green Tea with Raspberry: 0 points

Lunch:
McDonald's Southwest Salad w/ grilled chicken: 6 points
Diet Coke: 0 points

Lunch total: 6 points

Dinner:
Spaghetti Pizza: 6 points (WW recipe---see below!)
1 cup Skim milk: 2 points

Dinner total: 8 points

Dessert:
2/3 cup chocolate ice cream: 4.5 points
1/8 cup sliced strawberries: 0 points

Dessert total: 4.5 points

Total Points Used: 24.5 points
Points left for the day: 11.5 points
Activity Points earned today: 3 points
Flex Points left for the week: 35 of 35 points
Activity points earned for the week: 7 points, 0 used.

Spaghetti Pizza:
2 sprays of olive oil cooking spray
12 oz uncooked spaghetti noodles, whole wheat
2 large egg whites
1 large egg
2/3 cup skim milk
3/4 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp table salt
1-1/2 tsp dried oregano
1/3 cup basil, fresh, chopped (plus extra for garnish) *I used dried basil
9 oz shredded part-skim mozzarella, divided *I had to use cheddar, my mozz was moldy
32 oz spaghetti sauce *I used 26 oz jar
2 oz pepperoni, julienned *I used 10 turkey pepperonis.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Coat a 9x13 glass baking dish with cooking spray, set aside.

Break spaghetti into 2-inch pieces and cook, al dente, according to directions, drain and cool.

Meanwhile, in a large bowl, beat egg white and egg until frothy. Stir in milk, garlic powder, salt, oregano, basil and 1/3 of mozzarella; add cooked spaghetti and stir until thoroughly combined. Spread spaghtti mixture evenly in bottom of baking dish. Bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven. Reduce oven temp to 350 degrees.

Spread spaghetti sauce over pasta; sprinkle w/ remaining cheese. Scatter pepperoni evenly over cheese layer. Return to oven and bake until heated through and cheese is bubbly, about 30 minutes. Let stand for 5 minuts, garnish with basil and then cut into 10 servings. Yields 1 slice per serving.

1 slice=6 points

week 1, day 3

Day three already...

I'm starting to feel like I'm in a groove here! Hope it lasts!! We are going out for dinner tonight for an appreciation dinner for the Religion teachers. We go out every year to a nice supper club and I'm looking forward to it...now to stay within my points!

Breakfast:
1 cup cheerios: 2 points
1/2 cup skim milk: 1 point
1/8 cup sliced strawberries: 0 points

Breakfast total: 3 points

Morning Snack:
1 large banana: 2 points

Lunch:
Leftover stuffed pepper: 7 points
1 cup skim milk: 2 points

Lunch Total: 9 points

Afternoon snack:
100 calorie pack Oreo Thin Crisps: 2 points
Diet Dr Pepper: 0 points

Snack total: 2 points

We're going out for dinner tonight. As of now, I have 20 points left for the day going into dinner, plus flex points. We'll see how I come out!

week 1, day 2

Day two went fairly well! Here is my menu for the day!

Breakfast:
2 packets Quaker Strawberries and Cream Instant Oatmeal: 5 points
1 cup 1% milk: 2 points

Breakfast total: 7 points

Morning Snack: (on the way grocery shopping)
1-100 calorie pack of Nabisco Oreo Thins: 2 points
diet Dr. Pepper: 0 points

Snack total: 2 points
Morning Activity: 45 minutes of grocery shopping (leisure walking---carrying Addie in the Bjorn, pushing the cart w/ one or two kids in it, plus groceries) 2 activity points

Lunch: (Picked up lunch for hubby and the guys at the station)
3/4 of Taco John's Taco Salad (didn't eat the shell): 9.5 points
Crystal Light Peach Tea: 0 points

Lunch total: 9.5 points

Afternoon snack: (while cooking dinner and after dinner was in oven!)
handful of red grapes (about 1/2 cup): .5 points
100 calorie pack Nabisco Chips ahoy thin crisps: 2 points
Wild Strawberry Crystal Light: 0 points
Handful of baby carrots: 0 points

Snack total: 4.5 points

Dinner:
Stuffed Green Peppers: 7 points (recipe below)
1 cup of grapes: 1 point
1 cup skim milk: 2 points

Dinner total: 10 points

Dessert:
1 Skinny Cow Skinny Dipper Caramel: 1 point

Dessert total: 1 point

Total points used for the day: 32 points
Leftover points: 4 points

Turkey and Rice Stuffed Green Peppers:
20 oz ground turkey 93/7 browned and drained
1 cup Minute rice Whole Grain Brown Rice, cooked
16 oz Tomato Sauce
1 pkg Good Seasons Italian Dressing Mix
4 good-sized green peppers

Combine, cooked turkey, rice, tomato sauce, and italian dressing mix, set aside. Cut tops off green peppers, clean out the insides, rinse, blanch green peppers by putting them in boiling water for 1-2 minutes and then into ice cold water. Put peppers in a baking dish and stuff with turkey and rice mixture. Bake for 1 hour in 350 degree oven.

1 pepper: 7 points

Weight Watchers, Week 1, Day 1

I'm officially re-starting weight watchers today!

This picture was taken May 3, 2009. Approx weight: 175.2#

I had to drop my subscription last summer when I found out I was pregnant with Adeline. So now that I'm two months, 1 week and 2 days postpartum I'm ready to get my butt in gear and get my body back! I gained forty pounds this pregnancy, the most I've gained during any of my three pregnancies, but I also started out at my lowest pre-pregnancy weight and kept it under the 200 pound mark this time. At two weeks postpartum I had lost all but 14 pounds, but had 20 pounds to go until my goal weight. Well, somewhere in the last few weeks I gained 5 pounds and now I have 25 pounds to lose to my goal weight! I'm not sure if it's all the wonderful food I ate over the weekend or what, but somewhere I gained 5 pounds!

It's amazing, I can fit into my pre-pregnancy size, however they just don't look as good as they once did! Hopefully soon that'll change!

My stats for today:

• Start Weight: 175.2 (was 170.2 @ 2 weeks PP)
• Pre-pregnancy weight: 156.0
• End of pregnancy weight: 196
• Goal weight: 150.0

Today's menu---I get 36 daily points because of nursing and 35 flex points for the week.

Breakfast:
1 cup Cheerios 2 points
1/2 cup 1% milk 1 point
1/8 cup fresh strawberries cut up 0 points

breakfast total: 3 points

Lunch:
Large grilled chicken salad 5.5 points
water 0 points

lunch total: 5.5 points

Dinner:
2 pieces homemade bbq chicken pizza (recipe below) 6 points
1 cup 1% milk 2 points

dinner total: 8 points

Snacks: (through-out the day---not all at one time!)
2 graham crackers sheets 3 points
handful of baby carrots 0 points
1 milky way 6 points
3 Tbsp garlic hummus 1.5 points
6 pita chips 1.5 points
1 cup lemonade 2 points
1/2 cup chocolate ice cream w/ diced strawberries on top 3 points

Snack total: 17 points

Activity:
40 minute walk, carrying Adeline in the Baby Bjorn and pushing the double stroller w/ Amelia and Paul in it. 2 activity points

Total Activity Points: 2 points

Total points used for the day: 33.5 points
leftover points: 2.5 points

I started weight watchers almost exactly two years ago to the day when I was 6 months postpartum with Paul. At that time I weighed 177.8 pounds and at my lowest (about 3 months after starting WW) I weighed 154 and struggled to lose the remaining 4 points after that! I know Weight Watchers can work for me, it's a mind over matter kind of deal! Wish me luck! I'll try and update this daily if possible. My weigh-in day will be Mondays!

Soon I want to be able to rock that dress in the post below! That picture was from my dad's wedding last May about a month before I found out I was pregnant again!

Thanks for the support!

BBQ Chicken Pizza
1-roll of crescent rolls
2 cups leftover rotisserie chicken-cut up
1-8 oz can of tomato sauce
4 oz Open Pit BBQ sauce
1 cup part skim mozzarealla cheese
1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese

Roll crescent rolls out onto a cookie sheet. Mix chicken with tomato sauce and open pit, spread over the top of the crescent rolls, top with cheeses and bake in a 350 degree oven for about 20 minutes. Slice into 12 pieces. One piece=3 points