Week 25 Day 2 or On the brink of my future!

 

I was really sick last week and have been getting better each and every day.  Nothing could have kept me away from my Weight Watcher meeting last week (12/21/13).  I stayed the same weight which was good.  The room was virtually empty but for about 8 or so steadfast believers!  Snow and ice didn't keep us away.

 

Yesterday was a much nicer morning weather wise and there were some new faces at the meeting in anticipation of the New Year and their new futures.  I jumped on the scale not quite knowing what to expect since I really didn't eat for the first really sick 3 days of the week, last Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.  Christmas day involved a bit of cheese ball, a big piece of fudge and a slice of turkey and a baked potato.  I lost 2.7 pounds.  I was excited and squealed and jumped around.  At 265.9 pounds I have lost a total of 33.1pounds!  Imagine that!!!!  My daily points have dropped one and I can use 34 plus points.

 

2014 is going to be a great year.  I have decided my focus will be on me, my weight loss journey, my sewing and my cross stitch.  I intend on getting moving with my girl friends when the weather is warmer, walking that is!  I have started a new little cross stitch project to ring in the new year.  I threw away all my past failures that were holding me back from my future successes at yesterday's meeting and I am so excited about the rest of my life.

Oh yes, Santa gave my Prince and I a new Canon Camera! Plus I got a cool tripod so I will be able to bore you with plenty of pictures too! 

 

I do need to go as I need to be somewhere in a half hour.  Until we eat again my pretties!



Week 23 Day 1 or Good Bye 270's, Hello 260's!

I hit it folks!  I am so happy with myself.  Today I weighed in at 268.6 pounds, that is a total loss of 30.4 pounds and I lost 1.6 pounds last week!  I received my Weight Watcher key chain at the meeting for losing 10% of my enrollment weight.  I am so excited and pleased. 

I know I can do this! 

I KNOW I CAN DO THIS! 

I KNOW I CAN DO THIS!

 

We had the rain and cold yesterday after work but the Prince and I went to the grocery stores.  We have grapes and clementines and bananas.  We have chicken and ground beef.  We have cauliflower and tomatoes and cukes and broccoli.  We have yogurt and rice and cottage cheese.  I am ready for a great week.

 

I found some sugar free apple pie filling and a Pillsbury Apple and Caramel cake mix.  I plan on making a dump cake tomorrow. 

 

I am ready to take on the week before Christmas and do it well.  Until we eat again!

 



Week 22 Day 2 or great chocolate fix!

 

I wanted some chocolate.  I had a brownie mix in the cupboard.  I did a little figuring and made me brownies.

Brownie mix
½ cup of unsweetened applesauce
¼ cup of water
cinnamon

I mixed those 4 ingredients up.  Sprayed my Pyrex square glass pan with cooking spray and spread the mixture in the pan.  Sprinkled some cookie decorative stuff on the top and baked at 350° for about 40 minutes.  I cooled and then cut into 16 squares.

Three points each and they are good cake-like brownies.  Love them and will make them again!

I am going to wrap them up individually and pop them in the freezer.  They will be great to throw into my lunch bag for work!

Until we eat again!

Week 22 Day 1 or Dang close

Well I got knocked down last week with a gain of 1.6 pounds.  At weigh in today I lost 2.8 pounds which was amazing!  So I lost the 1.6 I gained and added 1.2 more pounds to boot!  So I am now down to 270.2 pounds and about ready to say hello to the 260's.  I am 1.2 pounds away from a 30 pound loss.  I have lost a total of 28.8 pounds!  I am proud of me.

I did not write down 100% of my bites.  I petered out on Thursday at dinner.  One day this week I hit 103% of my daily activity goal, it is the first and only time I have done that.  It is so blasted cold right now.  I have taken to taking the long way to the bathroom at work when I am at work.  I walk all the way around the perimeter of the call center to and from the bathroom.  That helps get me closer to my activity goals.

We have had some fruit in the house and that has helped this week.  One day, Tuesday I got off of work starving because I didn't take lunch with me and I stopped at Wendy's on the way home.  I got a cheeseburger deluxe at 9 points and a small chocolate frostie at 15 points!  Yikes!  But I didn't eat when I got home and actually came in that day using all my daily points and none of my weekly allowance.

At a meeting months ago I briefly heard mention of meal planning sites.  I went looking and found "Shrinking on A Budget" last Sunday.  Some enterprising woman puts together weekly meal plan using foods and ingredients that you would normally have in any kitchen.  Each week you get the meal plan for Weight Watcher meals and snacks with the recipes for those meals and the shopping list!  It costs $10 for a year!  I absolutely love it.  The meals are reasonable, have you ever seen recipes in magazines and cookbooks with these wild ingredients?  This is not like that, it is real world.  I joined and love this!  I print off the weekly meal plan and then put them in a 3 ring binder.  LOVE IT!!

It has been a great week, really, and I will sign off for now.  Until we eat again!

Week 21 Day 2 or Bumming about my Activity

 

See there is that little Active Link scutter plugged into my computer to spit out my wonderful attempt at walking yesterday.  Well it spit alright, right in my eye!  Damn thing!

I only got 65% of my activity goal yesterday.  That big long bar is me walking at noon and the rest is me sitting on my donkey/mule/ass all day long!  Crap on toast!

This is a good day of journaling my bites.  As you can see I had 9 points left at the end of the day!  Good girl.  The highlight of my day was my cauliflower on toast.  This is one of my favorite childhood meals my dear Mum used to make for us.  I think I was the only one of her four kids that liked it.

 

Green Giant has Steamer bags that are 3 points total, or 3 servings of 1 point.  Cauliflower and cheese, broccoli and cheese and I forgot the other.  LOVE IT!

 

I am so excited about this recipe I found at Weight Watcher girl.  It is a soft pretzel with cinnamon and icing and it is 5 points.  Easy to make, quick to make and decadent. http://www.theprettyyouproject.blogspot.com/2013/11/cinnamon-glazed-soft-pretzels-quick.html The neat thing is I had soft pretzels in the freezer and now I can make myself a great treat.  Life is good!

 

So today I have had one bottle of water with my medicine and I am going to search some more for good recipes.  I want to hit the grocery and take some books over to the dear Mum.  My Prince has Christmas Carols blasting on our home theater system, ugh!

 

Well happy eatings from your Pink Cricket!