Week 31 Day 6 or I have been SO good!

Well it is Thursday and I have been very good this week.  I am really proud of myself and it really doesn't matter what the scale will say on Saturday.  Yes I want it to say I have lost pounds but I know I have eaten and journaled and even drank my 48oz of water every day except on Saturday.  Life is good, even though the weather hasn't been very nice.  Today it was supposed to get into the 40's and it will continue to warm which is great.  I am ready to walk outside.

There are 2 food purchases I wanted to share.

 

I have been looking for this flat bread forever.  I found it by the specialty cheeses in HyVee.  There are 6 flat bread pieces, each piece is a mere 2 points!  I can't wait to try a pizza on one of these puppies.  The price was $3.28!  

 

 

These are so yummy and a great snack or you could cube them up, they are about 5 inches long and put them in a salad too.  Each stick has 2 points!  Score!!!  The price was $4.47.

 

So that is about it for now.  I will check back in on Saturday.  Until we eat again!

Week 31 Day 2 or Fabulous Food Finds

Yesterday after my meeting I was browsing the cookbooks and I purchased this one.  I found a few that sounded good, such as Pumpkin Buttermilk Pancakes, Beef and Sweet Potato Stew, Honey Citrus Baked Chicken, Crisp Cornflake Chicken, Southern Style Chicken and Dumplings and Asian Sesame Noodle Salad.  There are many more in here.

Fat: 0.5 g Carbs: 3 g Fiber: 2 g Protein: 1 gm  Serving Size: 4oz

Price: $2.69

Points:  0

Notes: I got these to make a recipe on the Hungry Girl web site.  

 

Fat: 10 g Carbs: 15 g Fiber: 0 g Protein:0 gm  Serving Size: 5 pieces Price: $5.99

Points: 2

Notes: I saw these in the Weight Watcher magazine and wanted to try them.  They are a little pricey for 5.5 servings.

Fat: 4 g Carbs: 1 g Fiber: 0 g Protein: 2 g  Serving Size: 1 wedge
Price: $3.99

Points: 1 

Notes: I had been looking for these for a while and found them in the specialty cheese department at HyVee.  Each round has 8 wedges and each flavor has different nutritional numbers, but I believe all are 1 point each.  I gave the nutritional numbers on the Creamy Swiss.

Fat: 10 g Carbs: 15 g Fiber: 3 g Protein: 2 g  Serving Size: 4 cups
Price: $3.88

Points: 2 

Notes: This stuff is good!  I half a serving and take it to work as an afternoon snack.  It isn't real salty but it does have a good flavor and I don't miss the salt.

Fat: 0 g Carbs: 5 g Fiber: 2 g Protein: 0 g  Serving Size: 1 Tablespoon  Price: $2.99
Points: 0

Notes: This jam is seedless and sugarless and is to die for on top of my bagel and cream cheese!  It doesn't get much better then heaven for ZERO points!

 

Fat: 7 g Carbs: 21 g Fiber: 2 g Protein: 1 g  Serving Size: 3oz(about 13 pieces)
Price: $2.99

Points: 4

Notes: I have heard great things about sweet potato fries so I wanted to try them. 

Fat: 1.5 g Carbs: 26 g Fiber: 9 g Protein: 4 gm  Serving Size: 1 muffin Price: $4.99

Points: 3

Notes: I had looked all over for these at HyVee and even Wal-Mart.  Then I saw an ad in the Weight Watcher magazine to look for them in the freezer breakfast food section.  That is where I found them in the health food section.  They are sort of expensive but they are awesome.  I love the Deep Chocolate one.  The Apple Crumb is okay but not as awesome.  They come 4 muffin tops individually wrapped.  Now that I know where they are I am going to look in Wal-Mart for the Wild Blueberry one. 

Fat: 5 g Carbs: 4 g Fiber: 1 g Protein: 1 gm  Serving Size: 2 Tbsp

Price: $2.78

Points: 2 

Notes: This stuff is so good.  I love it on my bagels with the sugar free Smuckers jam!

Fat: 1 g Carbs: 24 g Fiber: 5 g Protein: 6 gm  Serving Size: 1 bagel  Price: $3.19

Points: 3 

Notes: These are wonderful.  They have the thick middle cut out of them. Love it with cream cheese and Smucker's sugar free jam.

 

So that is about it from the folds of a thinning Lilac Thicket.  Until we eat again!

 

Week 31 Day 1 or Finding passion for losing it!

I suppose I have been feeling defeated.  My head just hasn't been in the game.  I missed my meeting last Saturday due to ice.  So it had been 2 weeks since my last weigh in.  I was dreading the truth, I knew I had gained.  I know I have to really get serious.  I was praying on my way to the meeting.  I told God I needed his strength and help with this long term project.  I stepped on the scale and had lost 2.6 pounds for a total of 36.6 pounds.  I feel like a pretender though, I don't see that I did anything to deserve the loss.  Okay, I don't eat the way I used to and I seem to be enjoying foods I hadn't before like grapes and Greek yogurt and veggie wraps.  That IS progress.

After the meeting I went to Hobby Lobby to look at the Simplicity patterns which were on sale for 99¢.  I think I am finding a passion for weight loss through sewing.  I looked at the spring catalog and not in the plus size section.  I saw such cute things that I wouldn't have bought in the past because they don't make them in the "Big" sizes.  Here are the 10 I bought, I would have purchased more but they limited me to 10.

I did buy the next sizes down and I am so excited about losing more so I can make these damn cute styles for myself! 

Now on the above picture you will see the top 2 patterns are retro styles, vintage styles from the 40's.  I love 40's fashion.

 

Then I went to the thrift shop and found these:

These have not been worn at all!  they are my size and so delicious.  Now I can't wear them yet.  They are Nine West!  The heels are way too high for all this 262.4 pounds to rest on the ball of my foot.  But sometime in the not too distant future I will wear these!  Oh, they were $2.00!

So I am thinking if I start to fill my closets with great buys that I can wear in a year or so, that will help keep me moving down the scale!

I have a lot of new grocery finds that I will share tomorrow.  I took some chicken out of the freezer and I will bake that with some sweet potato fries for our dinner this evening. 

Breakfast was good, 3 scrambled eggs (6 points), one toasted English muffin (3 points) with 2 Tablespoons of Weight Watchers cream cheese (2 points) and Smucker's sugar free seedless strawberry jam (ZERO points).

So with renewed hope and spirit I will bid you all the blessings one can handle.  Until we eat again!