January 23, 2010 - Day 20

Yikes! Cam and I decided to go out to lunch with Riley after our errands about town. This ended up being Red Robin. I thought to myself, "Okay, try to get something healthy." This, I thought, would be the salmon burger. Nope. I was wrong. Even after I ate only 1/2 the bun, I still ended up with 15 points for the meal. Stupid di'jon sauce that came on it! And then I ate too much for dinner. Oh well... it's the weekend, right, so that's allowed? :S

For breakfast

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

For lunch

1 grilled salmon burger (800 calories; 15 points)
* Without the sauce, I would have only been looking at 9 points... still not great, yeah, but so much better!

Water

For dinner

1 serving of (leftover) tortellini w/prosciutto and peas in a cream sauce (520 calories; 11 points)

Water

Snacks

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

Total Calories (roughly): 1390

Total WW Points (roughly): 29

Flex points left: 17

Exercise

200 ab crunches

Does weeding the back lot count? My legs hurt after crouching down for a long while...

January 17, 2010 - Day 14

I'm a little late in posting yesterday's events. Perhaps it's because of what happened yesterday:

My day -

For breakfast

1 banana (90 calories; 1 point)

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

It started off well, then we went out to the Olive Garden to celebrate my father-in-law's birthday. Bad move on my part.

For lunch

1 serving of Olive Garden salad (350 calories; 8 points)
* There is 26 grams of fat in 1 serving of this salad!!! I went to their website and was flabbergasted! People go in their for the soup and salad, and probably think they are being really healthy. Holy cow!

1/2 mozzarella triangle (165 calories; 4 points)

1/4 serving of Shrimp Manicotti (260 calories; 5 points)
* This is less then 1 serving of the salad!!!

1/2 breadstick (75 calories; 1 point)

Water

For dinner

1 serving of dinty moore stew (210 calories; 5 points)

1 serving of egg noodles (210 calories; 4 points)

Water

Snacks

1 serving of Total in skim milk (140 calories; 2 points)

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

Total Calories (roughly): 1570. Yeah, that sucked. I'm shooting for 1400 or lower. Oh well.

Total WW Points: 31. YIKES! But... I went and looked at my flex points for the week, and I'm okay. Granted I'm not sure how many points I consumed yesterday, but I'm pretty sure that my stew w/one dumpling wasn't more than 10 points. So, I'm just treating yesterday like I was on target with 19 points. So, even with today's debacle, I'm still actually under pace, meaning that I have 12 flex points left for the rest of the week (which is only 2 more days).

Exercise
Nothing. Yeah, I need to get back to working out.

January 15, 2010 - Day 12

Oh, today was bad. Real bad. Take a look-sees:

For breakfast

1 english muffin w/reduced fat margarine (180 calories; 5 points)

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

So, it started off alright. But then, I stepped on the scale and noticed I wasn't losing any weight, so instead of getting re-affirmed to stick to my diet, I went the other way. Maybe it was all the rain today. Or maybe it was the incessant TV watching.

For lunch

1/2 pound of on-top-of the stove macaroni and cheese (900 calories; 18 points)

Water

Yeah, that wasn't a typos folks. One half frickin' pound of pasta! The only saving grace (and it's a small one for sure) is that is was the low-carb pasta.

I'm not real sure what happened. I mean, seriously. I was just going to eat 1 serving, and before you know it. Bam! It's all gone. I should not be allowed to eat this meal again without supervision. I love it too much! Ask my husband - I will eat it until I feel sick. That's not good, right?

And the best part? That I didn't even get off my lazy ass to go to the gym, because I was too busy watching a Friday Night Lights marathon. I did do 250 crunches on my ab-lounger. Big whoop.

The upside of eating so much food is that I wasn't really hungry for dinner. So, all I had was a bowl of cereal.

For dinner

1 serving of Cheerios in skim milk (140 calories; 2 points)


Total Calories (roughly): 1255

Total WW Points: 26 - although this is only over my 2 points for my day, I'm actually within my week's points, since I hadn't used a lot of my flex points. But seriously, 70% of the points came at lunch. Damn. I'm pretty sure that's not the way to lose weight, not to mention the lack of fruit, vegetables, and protein in my diet today. Double damn.

Oh, yeah, this was not the healthiest of days for sure.

January 7, 2010 - Day 4

Today was a baddddd day, emotionally speaking. I had just decided that I couldn't take it any more, since I had been feeling hungry since I started this stupid diet! AACCK! I figured I was doing something wrong, because certainly I shouldn't feel hungry 24/7! So I did some research (even looking into the Weight Watcher Points that my aunt told me about), and I got so frustrated! There was too much to take into consideration. So I pretty much said "F*&@ it!" to the whole thing and ate 2 servings of mac and cheese.

But then I got thinking that perhaps that is what I needed. I need to be able to enjoy my comfort foods every once in a while. As long as I balance out the rest of the day, things like my mac and cheese would be fine. And, as you'll see below, it was fine. :) Moderation is the key!

After my daughter woke up from her nap, we took a family trip to the local grocery store and bought more healthy, but still yummy, food. I even bought some of the "Smart Ones" frozen meals by Weight Watchers (they were on sale) just so I could eat a relatively healthy option in a pinch.

So, here's my break down:

For breakfast

1 bowl of Cheerios in 1% milk

1/4 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (30 calories)

For lunch

2 servings of Stouffer's Macaroni and Cheese

Water

For dinner

2 servings of fajita mixture
* I put shredded cheese and soy sourcream on top; 1 had a low-carb tortilla

Water

Snacks

1 cup of 1% milk

1 serving of animal crackers

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (30 calories)

1 rice cake with peanut butter (130 calories)

Total Calories (roughly): At some point I calculated all of the of the calories, with the help of my husband. However, I forgot to write down the numbers that I collected, so I can't put them here. However, I do remember that it was roughly 1580. So even though it was a hard day emotionally, it turned out that it was a good day calorie-wise. :) And even with my mac and cheese binge, I still think I made it under the daily recommendation of fat intake. Finally, and most importantly, I don't have that starving sensation! Yay!!

Exercise
Nothing really. But I did do my standard 100 ab-crunches on my ab lounger. :)