Posts from — December 2008

I went to my WW meeting this morning. My last weigh-in was 12/20 before all the holiday eating hoopla. I knew I would be up because I did take a peek at the scale the other day. Usually, when I know I have gained I do go to the meeting, but I don’t get weighed. Today, I decided to pay the piper and get an “official” scale reading to hopefully get my rear in gear to take off these last 20 pounds. So, it’s official – I gained 1.2 lbs. I’m o.k. with that. It was actually worse the other day when I got on my home scale, but I think since I have been back on track these last couple days, my weight came down a little more. Good to know – just takes a few days of doing the right thing to get the holiday weight off. Hopefully, by next week the rest will be off, too!

I never eat before weigh-in, but I did take breakfast in the car. A slice of apple cranberry bread and more apple…

I spent the rest of the late morning and early afternoon making some dishes for the New Years Eve party we are going to tonight and also, for tomorrow when we have my parents, Gram and in-laws over for lunch. In between cooking and cleaning up, I made a quick lunch. I went with a ham and cheese sandwich (1 oz. ham, slice of 2% cheese, lettuce on a club roll), a serving of Sea Salt and Pepper Rice Chips and some grapes…

I dipped into some chocolate after that and a handful of reduced fat chips. I guess I’ll let that be my snack. This afternoon/evening will be a little rough with the party starting so late. Dinner will be served and it doesn’t start until 7 p.m., so we will be eating much later than I normally like. It’s always a bit of a dilema; I don’t know whether I should eat first and pick at the dinner, or not eat and wait or just have a snack ,then eat what’s there. Ugh. My plan is to wait for the dinner and just do the best I can. I’ll try to have a little of everything. I know I will not be figuring Points for all this, but since today is my first day of the weigh-in week at least I have the rest of the week to work it off!

I hope everyone has a fun night tonight, whatever you may be doing! See you all in 2009!!!

I ended up skipping my snack this afternoon; glad I did because I ate quite a bit at my parents’ house. There’s something about being in the home I grew up in that makes me want to eat!! Probably because there is always something delicious to eat there! For dinner, I ate some chicken with 1tbsp. tzaziki dip(a cucumber garlic yogurt dip), a scoop of brown rice, some green beans and half of a small sweet potato with ICBINB…

And a little bit of salad and a piece of kalamata olive bread…

Then, I had seconds on the green beans and another bite of bread!! I don’t know how I did Points-wise; I’ll estimate it at about 10 Points.

The daughters are back and now we are back to reality!! No more “quiet nest”. It’s o.k. though, we like it that way. At least for tonight

The husband and I feel like empty nesters. The daughters are spending a couple of days with their grandparents – it’s so weird without them! You tend to get into certain routines when the kids are around, so when they’re gone it’s different. No rushing around. It’s kinda relaxing. And we sure do love the uninterrupted night sleep! Little daughter still wakes up in the night – we’re hoping she will outgrow this by age 16! Anyway, on to the food…

I woke up, headed to the treadmill for a lame-o run (my heart just wasn’t in it) for 30 min. and then had a leisurely breakfast of apple cranberry bread and a sliced pear for 3 Points…

Then the husband and I went grocery shopping. The husband would rather stick hot pokers in his eyes than go grocery shopping, but he wanted to spend our “empty nest” day together doing things! The deal was that he could come only if he promised to “be good” because, frankly, I would rather stick hot pokers in MY eyes than have him shop with me!! He promised to be on best behavior, so together we went. On our lovely excursion in Trader Joe’s ( the most crowded place in the universe), I came upon these guys…

Well, you know I am all about the chips! The nutritionals were great: 38 crisps are 120 cal, 3 gr. fat and 1 gr. fiber = 2 Points. Sold!

When we got home, I put the Sea Salt and Pepper Rice Crisps to work on my plate (huge serving – I like that!) with a Cedarlane Beans,Rice and Cheese Burrito (I mentioned these before -so awesome!) and some leftover roasted cauliflower with a little cheese. A non-colorful plate of yumminess for 8 Points…

Not sure if I’ll have a snack this afternoon; I ate lunch late and we are headed to my parents for dinner and to pick up the “birdies”. I’ll bring a bar with me, just in case. Don’t want to overeat tonight because I plan on going to my WW meeting tomorrow morning. I know it won’t be pretty, but I don’t want to add any more ugliness to what will surely be my weigh-in tomorrow!