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!

Week 12 Day 1 or when whales become butterflies

I am writing this at 4:00 in the morning.  I can't fall back asleep probably because I was asleep by 6:30 yesterday evening.  I thought I would be productive by putting down my thoughts about my last Weight Watchers week before I know the results of the scale.

This past week has been a challenge at work and at home.  I fell down on several things such has not writing down what I ate and I only drank half my water one day.  We ate at Chick-Fil-A last evening as a political statement which explains the waffle fries, right!?  Yesterday I even found out what "sin" tastes like.  A co-worker brought me a very small piece of Sopapilla Cheesecake Pie and now I know why humans sin!  Oh my gosh it was the most amazing goodness in my mouth.  She gave me the recipe which I will treasure and make at the holidays for my family.

I also found out that if I take snacks to work that I want more and that I will eat them even if I'm not hungry.  If I snack I want more and more and more.  The days I didn't take snacks I was fine and didn't go hungry and stayed more focused.  I suppose I won't be taking snacks to work on a daily basis.

I didn't eat many fruits nor vegetables last week and I will change that.

Here are the positive things about last week.  I took my lunch to work every day.  In the evening I had my turkey soup.  I had turkey, carrots, onions, rice, thyme and rosemary in it.  After I boiled the carcass, I put the pot in the ice box and the next day, I got as much fat as I could off the top.  There was quite a bit of meat in it.  Really the turkey soup was delicious and filling so there wasn't a lot of after dinner eating last week.

I have found my back hurting less and less and my energy level increasing.  I find my thoughts turning to making decorating changes in the house which hasn't been there in years.  I curled my hair and that was new and positive.  I slept a lot, probably from the stress at work. 

A couple of nights ago I jumped up out of bed and sat on the edge of the bed thinking something was wrong or different.  Then I realized I hadn't flailed around like a beached whale trying to get out of bed.  It is easier to tie my shoes and my girlish snicker's are getting a little waddish.  I wore a long sleeved white shirt yesterday which was much looser then it had been.

I suppose I will never have a perfect week but I want to re-energize myself.  I am going to make my sweet and tart cucumbers today.  I will pull some chicken out of the freezer to thaw and bake a couple of potatoes.  I am going to take a walk this weekend and see what my stamina is like.  I want a nice salad!

All in all I like this past week and I shall see at the scale how well I did!  Stand by...............

Week 11 Day 1 or This little piggy made magic!

The above saying is SO apparent to me today!  I had such a tough week filled with challenges galore.  I didn't think for one moment I was gonna lose this week when I stepped on the scale.  I was SO sure I wore my jeans which are heavier weight wise.  I figured if I am gonna gain I might as well wear my jeans and then just continue to wear them thru the winter and spring until next summer.  I guess I made magic happen, I lost 2 pounds!  I am 0.2 pounds away from losing 20!  Yes my fine friends, I have lost 19.8 pounds!

This is my score card and you can see my weigh in every week.  I am so amazed and really look forward to seeing my doctor in January and showing him what I have done.  The last time I was to see him I was in tears and asked him not to give up on me.  I think he will be pleased.

 

This little piggy went to the market and spent big bucks!  I screamed wee-wee-wee all the way home because my bank account was $144 poorer!  I would have been proud to have my Ms. Casey see my grocery cart.  I did get my Prince some Little Debbie snack cakes so he would leave my Weight Watcher snack cakes alone!  They are expensive, six snack cakes are 2.99 and Little Debbie's are 12 for 1.50 so he should be happy.

 

I got my Weight Watcher meals and my AE Yo-Lite yogurt.  There was chicken and light margarine and celery, lettuce, tomatoes, turkey bacon, green grapes, bananas, Weight Watchers ice cream treats, bread, cooking spray, orange cake mix and frosting (for a co-worker's birthday Monday).  I got my diet Pepsi, cottage cheese, Morningside griller crumbles for chili, Flax seed oil (Omega 3) gel caps, Pantene shampoo and conditioner and paper products.  So see I was a good girlish girl! I had $8 in coupons and missed one of my $1 coupons because it stuck in the homemade coupon keeper pocket.



I want to share that these Weight Watcher Divine Triple Chocolate Ice Cream treats are to die for!  3 points and they are creamy, fudgy and delicious.  They are not cheap, 6 bars are 4.99!  But to me they are worth it!

I did treat myself to some of my wonderful needlework stashy goodness.  Of course my Uncle Si had to get into the picture!  Actually my Brother 2 bought him for me.  He knows I love Duck Dynasty.

This will conclude my missive for today and I want to thank everyone for their loving support.  I appreciate the love more then you can imagine.  Until we eat again!





Week 10 Day 2 or all is right in the land of Pink Crickets

So I just wanted to let everyone know that I added several new links to "The Cricket's Favorites" on the blog.  Lots of  new sources for figure friendly meals.

I just finished the best banana and I am getting ready to start on some water. 

The sleeping dog is lying. 

The Prince in happily ensconced in domestic bliss.

The turkey was good yesterday and I went over my points by 7 but I recorded them.  If I bite it, I write it.  And that is about it from the Lilac Thicket.  Do check out some of the favorites.  One site had baked liver and onions which my family knows I am a slave to good liver and onions.  Until we eat again!