Week 6 Day 2

I love the inspirational sayings on the Weight Watchers Facebook page.  There is a spark of hope for me to create an amazing day which will eventually bunch up all together to create an amazing year and then an amazing lifetime.  Oh if I could have been this wise years and years ago.

My daily points have been lowered by one, to 37 points which is no big deal as most days I don't even consume all the points.  Yesterday I finished the day with 11 points left on the plate.  They say eat all of your points but if I don't want to eat, which is something I really have never felt, by gosh I won't eat.  I love not having that uncomfortable full stomach feeling, especially when I go to bed.  I know you know that feeling particularly on Thanksgiving Day when you have eaten so much you are truly miserable.

Speaking of bed, I find it a little easier to breathe when I lay down because I don't have such a big roll of fat pressing up into my chin.  I have even been sleeping better.  I lay in bed this morning contemplating losing 10 pounds and how heavy a 10 pound flour or sugar bag is when you tote it from the car into the house.  I was carrying that around 24-7! 

So yesterday I made my first Weight Watcher "Dump Cake".  It calls for a yellow cake mix, fresh berries and 24oz of Diet 7Up.  I didn't have a yellow cake mix, but I thought the lemon cake mix would be good with the fresh blue berries I had frozen in the freezer.  When I took it out of the oven after 40 minutes it was way too liquidy so I put it back in for another 10 minutes.  I cut it up into 12 even pieces and some of the liquid was soaked up into the "crust".  I am disappointed in the taste.  It looks like hell on the plate.

If I make this again, I will use a yellow cake mix and less Diet 7Up.  It is only 3 points for a 3"x3" piece and sweet enough for me but it isn't what I had my taste buds ready for.  I have another Dump cake recipe which uses spice cake mix and pumpkin which I may make next weekend.

I spent most of yesterday on the hunt for recipes on line.  I found a couple of good ones which I will share as I make them.  I have my eyes set on a Crockpot Potato Soup one which is made with hash browns and it counts as 2 points per cup of soup.  Mom wanted that recipe so I shot it over to her in an e-mail.

I have taken out some chicken breasts to thaw and I will probably make some rice because my Caribbean Prince loves his rice.  Although I ran across a Weight Watcher recipe for Oven Fries and they look so good!

A lot of what I am gonna be talking about is food since that is the biggest challenge of all for me.  It seems as though I am more obsessed with food now then before but if I have a few really tasty and easy recipes that will help me sustain my journey.

I can't sit and watch television without something in my hands because I want to eat.  I haven't picked up my cross stitch in a long time.  My girl Rosie died 10 weeks ago and it just seems as though that was the point where my joy in stitching died too.  I need to pick it back up because my girl was so full of love and joy and she left a vacuum in my life.  Sundays are the hardest because she died on Sunday.  How I miss her. This is the last picture taken of my bestest girl 2 weeks before she left me.

 

Off to take on my day!  God Bless!