Week 16 Day 2 or Balsamic Rosemary Chicken

Balsamic Rosemary Chicken recipe from Skinny Kitchen was delicious.  I definitely will make it again.  I had to trim the chicken breasts down to 5 oz, but I froze those bits for fried rice or quesadillas or some other dish.  My Prince ate 2 of the breasts and 2 cups of the rice.  I put onion and an envelope of brown gravy mix in with the rice and it tasted lovely.

I did write every bite yesterday and drank my one bottle of water.  Goal for Day 1 was met!  I had 8 points left at the end of the day...good girl Sandi Jo!

I have some lean ground beef thawed and will patty up 4 burgers and cook them up for dinner and lunch tomorrow. 

Well just a quick entry while I drank my water and ate my Banana.  Until we eat again!

My inspiration.

Week 16 Day 1 or I will!

Oh it could have been so much worse than it was.  I had a very stress filled week at work and it showed on the scale with a 0.2 pound gain.  I did not grocery shop, I had none of my treats or fruits or Weight Watcher meals.  I did not journal my bites, I did not pack my lunches.  I munched on whatever was here in the house and I ate the cookies in the vending machine at work.  I am lucky I didn't gain more.

So this week I am buckling down.  I am declaring my goals for this week.

• Journal every bite!
• Drink one bottle of water each day.
• Walk down the block to the end of Walnut each day after work!

Hold me to these goals my dear and gentle readers.

At the meeting today I was given a clapping hands charm for attending 16 weeks of meetings without a miss.  It means a lot to me.  I love the meetings, look forward to them.  I like the people, the motivation, the wisdom and they always end with giving me the excitement to get a good start for my week.  I want to get a nice little link bracelet to begin to put my charms on for a nice charm bracelet.

I went to the grocery store after the meeting and spent $156.50.  I got apples to make an apple bread or apple crisp.  I got grapes and bananas and tomatoes and cucumbers.  I wanted cauliflower but didn't want to spend $3 on a small head.  I need to visit Aldi's.  I bought onions and canned beans and fruit, cottage cheese, bread, kosher salt, chicken breasts, WW meals and ice cream.  I bought Chai tea bags and liquid smoke and lunch meat.

I bought some of these sandwich rounds to make small sandwiches to take to work with the Progressive soup.  They have 3 points per round which is the top and bottom half.  With some lunch meat, a small piece of cheese and a bit of lite mayo, I think they will be super for lunch.

For dinner this evening I am making Balsamic Rosemary Chicken, rice and cauliflower/broccoli medley.  The chicken is a Skinny Kitchen recipe. And it is very low on the point scale, just what the chicken weights. 

I am also going to throw some of my cukes in the vinegar and equal liquid for snacking.  Plus I want to bake the 1 point sugar cookies.

I am looking forward to a challenging week, where I challenge myself to do better and I know I can!

So next week I want to report on all the successes of "I Did's"!

Tomorrow, Best Deals Magazines http://www.bestdealmagazines.com/ will be having Weight Watcher Magazine subscriptions for $4.29 a year which is 6 issues. They are 11.99 usually thru Weight Watchers.  I think I can order up to 4 years worth so I am going to!  I am excited about that too!

So life is great and all is well.  Until we eat again!

Hungry Girl Halloween Goodies Point Guide

LOW-CALORIE CHOCOLATE TREATS
These tiny treats can't be beat. Each one has 20 - 35 calories and 0.5 - 1.5g fat (PointsPlus® value 1*).

3 Musketeers Minis
Hershey's Kisses
Sixlets 8-piece tubes
Tootsie Roll Midgees
Whoppers Malted Milk Balls 3-piece tubes

CHOCOLATE MINIS Minis are the small, typically square, morsels. The kinds below have 35 - 55 calories and 1.5 - 3g fat (PointsPlus® value 1*) per piece.

Baby Ruth
Butterfinger
Hershey's Special Dark, Krackel, Milk Chocolate, and Mr. Goodbar
Kit Kat
Milky Way
Nestlé Crunch
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Snickers
Twix

SNACK-SIZE/FUN-SIZE CHOCOLATESnack-size and fun-size candies are usually about 2 inches long and weigh in at around half an ounce. The ones listed here have 60 - 85 calories and 1 - 4g fat (PointsPlus® value 2*) per piece, pack, bag, or box.

3 Musketeers
Baby Ruth
Butterfinger
Hershey's Milk Chocolate
Junior Mints
Kit Kat (one 2-piece bar)
M&M's Milk Chocolate
Milky Way
Nestlé Crunch
Raisinets
Snickers
York Peppermint Patties

SNACK-SIZE/FUN-SIZE CHOCOLATE PART IISame specifics as the previous list of snack-size/fun-size treats (about 2 inches long and half an ounce in weight), but these are a little higher in stats. Each bar or pack has 90 - 95 calories and 4 - 6g fat (PointsPlus® value 3*).
100 Grand
M&M's Peanut
Mr. Goodbar
PayDay

LOW-CALORIE CONFECTIONS
These goodies are impressive in the stats department: 30 - 50 calories and 0 - 1g fat (PointsPlus® value 1*) each.
AirHeads mini bars
Laffy Taffy mini bars
Now and Later (2 pieces)
SpongeBob SquarePants Gummy Krabby Patties
Starburst (2 pieces)
SweeTarts Chews
Twizzlers Cherry Pull 'n' Peel snack-sized pieces
Twizzlers Strawberry Twists snack-sized pieces

CALORIE-BARGAIN TREAT-SIZE/SNACK-SIZE BAGSPouches, packs, bags, and packages! Each of these small sacks has 50 - 55 calories and 0g fat (PointsPlus® value 1*).
Brach’s Candy Corn
Hot Tamales
Mike and Ike
Sour Patch Kids
Swedish Fish

MORE MINI BOXES 'N BAGS
While not quite as pint-sized in the calorie department as the list above, each petite pack has a reasonable 60 - 75 calories and 0 - 1g fat (PointsPlus® value 2*).
Dots
Mini Chewy SweeTarts
Skittles Fun Size

 

 

 

 

LOW-CALORIE SWEETS & SUCKERS

All-star stats here! Just around 20 - 25 calories and 0g fat (PointsPlus® value 1*) each.

Dum Dums

Everlasting Gobstopper mini pouches

Pixy Stix (3 straws)

Smarties rolls

MID-CALORIE CLASSICSWith 50 - 60 calories and 0 - 0.5g fat (PointsPlus® value 2*) per pop, these long-lasting goodies are some of our favorites.

Blow Pop

Ring Pop Halloween

Tootsie Caramel Apple Pops

Tootsie Pops

Week 15 Day 1 or bad is done good is beginning

It has been a horribly tough week with tons of stress at work.  I was not good but not horribly bad.  I lost 0.4 lbs in spite of myself this week.  I was surprised.

After a late night of a stitching orgy with my girls.  I did not want to get up and go to the meeting this morning.  I did make it to the 0930 one and I am glad.  Made a new friend named Kathy and that is a good thing.

I am going to go in and make myself a nice salad and the grocery shopping will wait until tomorrow.

I have been enjoying my Kindle and have been reading again.  I love my Kindle.  Off I go with blinding slowness and wish all of you the most wonderful of God's blessings.  Until we eat again!

Week 14 Day 1 or Pitfalls of weight loss!

Good Morning all of my pretties!  It is a wonderful early autumn morning.  My Prince is off to church, April is annoying me by nervously pacing from room to room, the dog next door is barking at random nothingness and I, your girlish girl, am here slaving away at the laptop.

I had a week, as most of you did too!  I found that 3 of the days last week found me with not much of an appetite.  Are you as shocked and appalled as I am at that little factoid?  Those days I left the day with 15 or more uneaten points on the table!  What is the matter with her royal chubbiness? 

Two different tops I wore this week were no longer too tight.  Amazing!  And I would have to say the most disturbing moment came when I was in the bathroom having a private moment when I jumped up to answer the ringing phone.  I pulled up the jeans and ran to the phone, which had by that time quit ringing. But hold on a minute, something wasn't feeling quite right.  Much to my amazement I discover my snickers were still around my knees but the crotch was properly where it should have been.  Could it be that my snickers are getting too big for me?  Alas it is true!  And here is where the pitfalls of weight loss lie.  Clothing is amazingly growing when it is hanging in the darkness of my closet or folded in my closed dresser drawers.  Life is good!

Today I am going to reorganize a shelf or two in the garage.  I want to take the can goods which my well meaning Prince stores in any of 3 cabinets and put them on the shelves in the garage, so I can see what I have and what I need.  I will do that when I finish here, before he comes home and gets under my feet.  It seems to be a pattern with my dear one, if I am in the kitchen he has to wander in and begin to rut around for something to eat.  He is a 6'2" eating machine.

Chili and rice will be on the menu today.  I will make it with the Morning Side Griller Crumbles which is a non meat product but tastes pretty good.  Beef doesn't sit well on His Highness's tummy so I try to avoid beef when I cook for the two of us.  I also want to make a cookie recipe I found.  It is a sugar cookie recipe which is 1 point per cookie!  I'll let you know how they turn out.

Oh and my results at the scale?  I lost 2.4 pounds and weigh 276.6 pounds.  I was chatting with a couple of ladies before our meeting and told them what I was at when I started my journey in July.  One of the gals said I was brave because she didn't tell anyone her weight.  I said I want to speak in truths and truth is the numbers on the scale, good or bad.

Have a grand week loved ones, until we eat again!

Week 13 Day 2 or Take it off, take it ALL off!

Oh my dear and darling devoted cheerleaders, this past week has been agony which did not end in defeat but VICTORY!!!!!

 

Last Saturday at weigh in I gained 0.6 pounds which wasn't devastating.  I went home determined to make it a good week.  Then a letter came in the mail that just about crushed and destroyed me.  I won't go into that personal issue but know that I was beyond panic.  I couldn't think or breathe or even eat.  The whole weekend I ate virtually nothing.  My appetite was gone, imagine if you can that preposterous notion. 

 

Sunday things improved slightly as my darling Prince ordered a Kindle Fire for me with a dazzling pink case from QVC.  Things were looking up.

 

Monday saw me do somewhat better when I returned to work.  My appetite was coming back and I was only crying part of the day.  The week definitely improved as I anticipated the arrival of my Kindle and as things began to work themselves out and my beautiful life was not going to come to an end.

 

I still was not eating the right things but I had vowed to write down each bite and I did.  Friday ended with a trip through the Popeye's drive thru window with my Prince riding shot gun.  You know I enjoyed every tasty morsel of my thigh and breast, mashed 'tatoes and 2 bites of a biscuit.  And success came when I wrote it down in my food diary and had to use my extra points allotment.  But that WAS a great success considering my stressful week.

 

Yesterday morning I opened my eyes at 0745 and jumped up and threw clothes over my PJ's and ran over several squirrels dashing in front of my speeding vehicle as I flew down Walnut Street to get to my Weight Watcher meeting.

 

I lost a gerbil last week and met my personal best of losing a car tire!  I mean who do you know who would be happy about losing a car tire?  Translated to real world I lost 0.8 pounds for a grand total of 20 pounds!  I HAVE LOST 20 POUNDS!!!!!!

 



To the grocery store I flew and bought fresh veggies and fruits, not so much Weight Watcher meals.  But I am so jazzed and ready to lose more!!!  I can't wait to see Dr. Cutie Pie in January.  I can't wait to show off my grocery cart to Casey in the HyVee!  My beloveds, I am ready for this, I am ready!  TAKE IT OFF, TAKE IT ALL OFF!

Loving this and until we eat again!  Hershey Hugs and Kisses!