February 14, 2010 - Day 42

Happy Valentine's Day! This morning I decided to make crepes for the family. Cam loves them, and ever since I've known him, he's wanted to make them. So I figured this would be a nice surprise and something we could all do as a family. It was fun! Riley loved helping, saying over and over again, "Help Mommy! Help Mommy!" and helped add the ingredients and whisk them all together. I manned the grill, and Cam experimented with different fillings. My favorite was honey and cinnamon; Cam liked them with butter and syrup; and Riley liked hers with honey. These were also super easy to make. Gotta love stuff like that! :)

On another note, my weight is now at 138.5 pounds. While that number represents a slower weight loss rate than previous weeks, it's still a loss of weight. So, woo-hoo there! I'm closing in on having lost more weight versus the amount I want to lose. That's my immediate goal for now. Then it's on to fitting into the size 8 jeans I bought at Goodwill today. I tried them on and I can get in them and close them, although not in a super comfy way. But I'm thrilled I could get them on b/c that hasn't happened in a long time!

For breakfast

3 crepes with cinnamon and honey (400 calories; 8 points)

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

For lunch

1 ham and cheddar sandwich on multi-grain bread w/dijon mustard (160 calories; 2 points)

1 clementine (40 calories; 0 points)

Water

For dinner
Continuing leftover weekend, I decided to have:

A half piece of turkey meatloaf (100 calories; 2 points)

1/2 of a cauliflower fritter (60 calories; 1 point)

Water

Snacks

1 square of dark chocolate (57 calories; 1 point)

Diet hot chocolate (25 calories; 0 points)

So for today it's roughly:

Total Calories: 877

Total WW Points: 15

Total flex points left for week: 31

Days left in flex points week (after today) : 1

Exercise

A little tennis with Cam and Riley (until Riley decided she had enough of chasing balls, and wanted to go down the slides in the play area)

About 45 minutes on an elliptical machine

100 ab crunches

February 8, 2010 - Day 36

Today was very blah for me. I just didn't want to do anything. It was very hard for me not to eat badly. I'm lucky I only ate a muffin for a snack this afternoon. It could have been much, much worse.

For breakfast

1 strawberry fruit and grain cereal bar (130 calories; 2 points)

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

For lunch

A few bites of a broiled portobello mushroom, seasoned w/rosemary, thyme, parmesan cheese, garlic, oil, and worcestershire sauces (20 calories; 0 points)
* Yeah, I didn't like this. It got rave reviews on some website, and I thought I would try it. I've always claimed I didn't like mushrooms, but I didn't think I ever gave them a fair shot. So, I figured why not. Yeah, no, not for me. So instead, I had...

1 Smart Ones 3 cheese ziti maranera (320 calories; 6 points)
* It's more calories, but definitely more my speed.

Water

For dinner

1 serving of rosemary turkey meatloaf (185 calories; 3 points)

One and a half cauliflower fritters (170 calories; 3 points)

Water

Snacks

1 high fiber banana nut muffin (170 calories; 3 points)

1 diet hot chocolate (25 calories; 0 points)

1 smarties (50 calories; 1 point)

So for today it's roughly:

Total Calories: 1105

Total WW Points: 19

Total flex points left at the end of the week: 28!!! This is the most I've ever had left over at the end of a week. Go me! :)

Exercise

A little over 30 minutes on elliptical machine

100 ab crunches