Day 7

I'm making this post today because yesterday I was SO exhausted I went to bed at 9pm. I couldn't even function at all. My dh put me to bed and took care of the baby for most of the night and for the first time in about 2 weeks I got more than 3hrs of sleep in one night! It was awesome. I was told no computer, no reading, no nothin' but sleeping. I'm grateful.


So yesterday I finished at 37pts with a weekly leftover of 30pts. I think I did ok. I'd have preferred not to use any weekly points but that's ok. I'm amazed I managed to track anything at all, I was so brain-dead. :P

Day 6 was...

Yesterday. That said, yesterday was prepare for Thanksgiving day and I didn't get HOME until 2:30 am and my son kept me up until 3:30 am and I had to be ready to walk out the door this morning at 7:30 am and SO....yeah, no updaties.


Yesterday was not a stellar day pointwise, but it wasn't too bad (I don't *think*). However, it was good because it made me realize that if I count points on Thanksgiving, I'm going to make myself miserable. So I'm going to give myself permission to have an "off" day and I simply will not be tracking anything tomorrow. I WILL be keeping my points in MIND I just wont' be tracking them and Day 7 will resume tomorrow. This is not permission to eat whatever I want. It's simply removing the OMGZ I'M SUCH A FATASS stress. I have, thankfully, been working on my eating habits for a few years now anyway so I don't think this will be the challenge it is for some (for me, anyway). Also, going "off plan" for one day is not going to de-rail me (my psyche just doesn't work that way, lol). HOWEVER...

...the leftovers for the following are going to be a real challenge which is why Day 7 will pick up on Black Friday. I have heard that some people take off for the entire Holiday season but that will most definitely not be me.


Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Day 5

Well being extra careful kind of bit me in the arse over here. Finished up at...22.5/32. I'm all over the place with this thing, huh?


It never occurred to me that I was going to be out for several hours and wouldn't have an opportunity to eat. And of course, when we did stop, it was at a fast food restaurant, at a place were the only "safe" gf food was a salad and um...well let's just say I've had Burger King Salad's before and no. What's annoying is that I TOTALLY could have had the fries, lol.


Then I came home and ate some of the chicken salad I'm going to post my recipe for thinking that would round me up nicely because I also had three little Hershey's Chocolate Kisses filled with MINT. OMG THOSE ARE SO FREAKING GOOD. A serving size is 9 and I thought they'd be huge on points so I thought I was good.

Nope. 9 of them is only 5points. My salad is only FOUR. Oh well. :)


So, instead of a food list (which I still maintain as horrifically boring and don't feel like copying it out) you can have a recipe I made today.


Yesterday I used a weight-watchers recipe to make Balsamic Chicken and Mushrooms (except I ended up being out of mushrooms, but that's neither here nor there). 3pts a serving. I had leftovers (2 chicken breasts) so I chopped them up and made a salad.

1/4c Helman's Real Mayonnaise
2 chicken breasts, chopped
28mg pepperoni, chopped/minced (that's 14 slices, or 1 serving)
1 medium onion (which I never added cuz the baby was being fussy and I gave up, lol)
2 small stalks of celery, finely chopped
Pepper
I personally don't think it needed salt as the pepperoni all minced up like that did a nice job of salting the dish but salt to taste.


So, now for the instructions....wait for it....mix it all up in a bowl. It's 4 pts a serving if you devide it up into 5 portions. So far dh has had two sandwiches made with it and I've had two full survings and there are at least two more left so I think it makes more like 6 which would make it 3pts a serving. Obviously this will vary a bit depending on the size of your chx breasts or how much you consider a "portion" to be.

It turned out really nicely and I like that it's not too wet OR too dry. Nommy.

Random Post

Being extra careful today!

Ok, but I just had to pop in and say how much I LOVE the recipe builder I got with my ww account. OMG LOVE. I think I would love it even if it didn't calculate point values for me...but um...it does and so I want to have it's babies. :)


That is all, back to your days. :)

Day 4

OY! Two valuable lessons learned today. One: Figure out points BEFORE eating!!!! Don't assume you have a general idea because you WILL get blindsided. I'm not even going to bother writing out my list of food today. Suffice to say that I ended today at a whopping 43.5 points. OUCH. Thank GOD for weekly points as I've still got 23 of those to go so I'm not completely and utterly screwed. Yet. And on Thanksgiving week, too! DUR.


So what happened? Well, see, today was parent-teacher conference day at my oldest daughter's school. So I went to meet with her teacher (my oldest is in kindergarten) and we had a great chat. We were supposed to meet for 20min but after almost an hour I told her that I *had* to go because my kids and their grandmother were waiting in the car! First, let me say that Ms. S clearly enjoys having my daughter in her class. The only reason I was there for so long was a) the family before me ran late and b) Ms. S had so MANY encouraging, pleasant things to say about M that it was impossible for me to just be like, "yeah, yeah, gotta go, BYE!" Instead I asked a lot of questions and I left feeling a lot better about the school my daughter is in. Anyway, I felt SO BAD about my FIVE year old and my TWO year old (oh and the baby but he slept through most of it) having to just sit in the car for an HOUR that I decided (with Grammy's help) to take them to McDonald's as a treat. We almost never go there and the one my kids love has a HUGE indoor play area (it was cold and raining today) and well, Grammy said they were *so* good in the car and M had SUCH a glowing report I just couldn't say no. So when it came time to order food, I *thought* I was making good choices!!! I ordered a grilled chicken club MINUS the bread (I'm gluten intolerant). I mean, it's a grilled chicken breast with 2 slices of lettuce, a piece of Swiss cheese, two poor excuses for bacon (seriously, where do they find the paper thing, mini-sized, flavorless bacon? Never ordering that again, diet aside) and a slice of tomato. It sounds like something I'd cook for a healthy snack, frankly (minus the pathetic bacon, obviously). I looked up the sandwich hours later, confidently and was FLOORED to see that it costs ELEVEN POINTS!?!? I want to know HOW. It's a chicken breast, vegetables and some bread, people. Even with the bacon I cannot figure out how ww's figures that sandwich is worth ELEVEN points! Maybe McD's adds calories for fun? I don't know, I just know I was extremely irritated by that. I have no idea what the sandwich is without the bread so I just counted the whole thing. I'm SO irritated by that I could just well, rant in my blog. :p

The second mistake I made was ALL me. So, yeah, french fries? They aren't so bad, they're potatoes!! I am way too used to considering ff's a "relatively safe" food (as I have spent the last 2yrs learning to eat gluten free when out) and didn't even THINK about the fact they are DEEP FRIED MORON. Yeah, so I was telling my husband about my big, stupid, thoughtless mistake and he very lovingly said, "Um...yeah, you can't just think about what the food IS. You have to think about how it's cooked." Yup. My mistake. Btw, a med fry at McD's? EIGHT POINTS. That's nineteen goddamn points in one freaking meal!


Oh and lesson number two, which I really should have already learned: track my points as I go. I was out for a good portion of today and when I got home it was dinner/bathtime/bedtime chaos (add to that an extremely gassyandtherefore cranky baby boy) and I didn't even LOOK at my points tracker till it was all said and done. I wish I had because after that fiasco of a "lunch" I had a reasonable size dinner (if anything, it was pointier than I'd usually make but I was trying to make up for dh not being able to attend McD's happy time with the kids).


So...yeah. Started off today great. Dinner and breakfast were both excellent and we would have been fine if it weren't for the mystery calories to be found in a McD's breast with vegetables. *Sigh* Never again. McD's is my arch nemesis more so than before. Next time I take the kids there I am getting a diet coke and NOTHING ELSE. I'll just breathe the fries in real deeply and PRETEND I'm eating them while sucking on my coke.

Day 3

Day three looks so pitiful all by itself up there, lol.


Ok, so, finished out today with...30/32 points. Ooops.

Overall, I'm ok with it.

I'm so braindead, though, I don't have much to say.


Morning:
Bowl of Honey Nut Chex w/ whole milk -4pts
1 cup o Joe-2pts

Mid-day:
Rice n Cheese snack-4pts

Anytimes-Sausage n cheese-6pts
More chex-4pts
1/2 serving pepperoni (i lubs dem)-2pts
1 slice kraft single-1pt

Evening- Balsamic Chicken Dinner- 7pts

Yeah, really basic, boring post. Sorry guys.

Day 2

I'm such a dork, lol, I actually went to bed and was all settled when I realized I'd forgotten to post. My earlier post today does not count as THE POST for the day.

I considered just saying EFF it and going to sleep but well, the whole point of posting here is to keep me accountable and for me, it's a reflection of my motivation and my seriousness. So here I am, updating at 1:30am.


So I am loving my ww's account. I still don't have a notebook to put my stuff in with but so far, that's ok, because the points-tracker is like a shiny new toy that I can't resist playing with. It makes me want to eat just so that I can stick stuff in there.


I'm really tired and I don't feel well (yay for bc induced time of the month that's totally whacking out my body!). So I'm just going to keep this short and sweet, today. Not a lot of "reflecting".


I used 31 out of my 32pts (and honestly, I'm still learning and probably miscalculated things here and there). And...it's one in the morning and I'm HUNGRY. Probably because I suddenly have less points and while it's only five, it still matters.

I had:
Morning:
2 oz Hillshire Farms Beef smoked sausage
2cups of coffee (if I write it down it's because it had cream and sugar, otherwise it's zero zero zero points...though today I ONLY had coffee made that way).

Afternoon (Now, we ordered Chinese for lunch. I got my food steamed, no oil, sauce on the side. It was actually really good so anybody that loves chinese food might find that a cool tip. Hot Wok doesn't charge any extra for these changes. However I have no idea how to find "steamed chicken breast" for point values so I just treated it like it was cooked chicken, boneless skinless, and approximated my portions. I also split up what I had into dinner and lunch and didn't even eat half the lil box of rice.)

4oz chicken breast
1 cup steamed snow peas (omg nom nom nommy!)
1/8cup steamed carrots

Later for a snack, I had:
3T cream cheese (don't ask, I can't PUT mine on crackers like everyone else!)
1/2 serving of pepperoni (a serving is 14 and i had 7)

Evening:

1 cup white rice
1 cup snow peas, steamed
1/8cup carrots, steamed
1 cup of coffee (mmmmmmmmmmm)
2oz candy corn (I blame the kids....:p ) I'm totally guessing on that, I only had a few pieces and who the heck knows how many oz that is? I need a scale, methinks.


So obviously I didn't do as well as I could have as I'm seriously really hungry and I know I didn't drink enough water. I think, for future reference, white rice, while nommy, is not my friend. I really didn't feel satisfied after dinner and that feeling has turned into a grumbling tummy at bedtime. However, I'm not going to go eat (though I can hear the little pepperonis calling my name...), I'm just going to go to bed. Also, I did not get any other grains today at all and I have no idea if I got "healthy oil" in or not. *shrug*

Ah well, gotta start somewhere. Tootles!