Saturday Splurging

There is something about Weigh-In day that makes me not want to step into the kitchen. The timing of the meeting and having work immediately after forces me to grab lunch on the go. Then by the time I get home, I just DONT WANT TO COOK!

Pre-meeting a picked up a Clif Bar (big surprise!)

I've gotta stop eating these. I don't even do any extreme exercising (look at that guy just climbing away) do I really need the energy of a Clif bar? Honestly I eat these things like treats.

I promise - this is my last clif bar (for the next week...)






Lunch was a six inch roast beef sub.









No this isn't a repost of old pictures. LoL. This only feels like deja vu because I ate the EXACT SAME THING last week saturday :) I have to figure out a way to motivate myself to cook on Saturdays.

I really wanted a dessert today. I sat around contemplating for a while. I originally wanted Baskin Robbins, but I waited too long and they closed. So I went to the supermarket and found this:

A small single serving of icecream. Yay! So this is what I turned it into this:
Thats a mini angel food cake, chocolate syrup, strawberries with the icecream on top!

It was soooooo good. I made sure not to buy more than one of those ice creams because I would have taken advantage of it :)

xoxo
dee.

I DID IT!!!

I went to my Saturday morning meeting and I was very anxious to see how I did this week. I have a tendency to maintain or gain after having a significant loss the week before. My only hope for this week was that I would be down 0.8 just to get me to 25lbs.

..And I DiD It!!
(and then some)

I lost 1 lb this week. Woohoo!!
I celebrate every loss. Even the weeks where I "only" lose 0.2 lbs. Every pound, every ounce, takes some degree of effort to lose so I appreciate them. Shoot, to be honest, at this point I would gladly welcome a week where I am able to maintain my weight because considering my eating habits before I joined weight watchers, maintaining my weight is a miracle in its own right.

Exhibit A:













And since I reached the 25lb milestone, I got a Weight Watcher's reward!
Its a small little key chain thing but I love it and it makes me feel really proud to see it :) I know its cheesy but I worked for that little thing!!! I'm very very happy today. I am a sneeze away from being out of the 160s (no pressure, no pressure!) I cannot honestly remember being in the 150s. I know it happened some time in high school when I was doing Weight Watchers for the first time. But I think that lasted for about a week LoL. AHHH I am so pumped!

Anyway, at the meeting today we discussed really focusing on getting the required amount of fruits and vegetables per day. So my goal for this week is to focus on switching up my menu a bit and really pushing vegetables. I talked to a friend who reads my blog the other day and she said that I eat too much tilapia. LoL. I know! So this week I am going to shake up my menu...maybe after Wednesday when I do my grocery shopping. If you have any fun ideas for my cooking, please feel free to leave a comment!!


xoxo
dee.

Pre-Weigh In Eats

Day before Weigh-In. Wonderful.
I'm not really worried because for the most part, I behaved during this week. I am not expecting a huge loss like last week. Honestly my goal for this week is to lose at least 0.8 because that would bring me to a total of 25 lb lost!

Breakfast - 3 scrambled egg whites, 1/2 chicken sausage, Whole wheat english muffin with 2 tbsp Weight watchers cream chese, strawberries.


On the way to work I felt like munching on something so I hit up the vending machine for a snack. THERE WERE CLIF BARS!!! These suckers taste good, but not amazing, but for some reason I really enjoy chewing them. I decided I didnt want to "spend" 5 whole points on a clif bar today, so I picked a Fiber 1 bar instead for 2 pts.


I had the bar and some diet coke at around 2 and it held me over until I had lunch at around 4:30.

Because I dont have a microwave at work, lunch during my shift is really limited. I made a chicken salad sandwich
I know it looks kinda on the boring side, but its the best that I could do today. I also had a banana (not pictured).

When I got home I had some kettle korn (I never take photos of the popcorn it just seems kinda lame...and since I eat it all the time i figured..eh...why bother.



For dinner I made tilapia fillet, french fries, and a side of spinach. I made those fries! Seriously...with a real potato and everything. I just cut up the potato in fry sized pieces and baked in my toaster oven for about 35-40 minutes. Very Nice!!
I wish I had a potato cutter gadget so that the fries would have been more consistent in size. But oh well my taste buds didn't know the difference.

Dessert - Light and Fit vanilla yogurt.


wish me luck at the scales!

xoxo
dee.

Pre Weigh-In Anxiety

Whenever Friday comes around, I get a little nervous. My Weigh Ins are on Saturday and for some reason, I believe the success of my weigh in rests solely on the shoulders of Friday. I know this isn't true, but when Friday arrives I feel the pressure.

I am guilty of scale addiction. I have a home scale and I probably step on it throughout the day after every major event. And by "major event" I mean waking up, or coming home from class, or having dinner. I don't know why I do it, because it doesn't even impact what I do/eat throughout the day. It is just this constant nagging curiosity about this number that somehow reflects me...
Even though I know the number doesn't represent me, I still want to see it.

These home weigh-ins really suck because for one, when I actually have a loss, I don't get to experience the surprise and excitement that I would otherwise feel at my REAL weigh in at Weight Watchers. Maybe I do it to dull the disappointment that I would feel if there was a gain? I dunno. Whatever the case is, the frequent scale checks are not healthy!

I've decided, after tomorrow's weigh in (the official one!) i am going to put the battery in my car and put the scale in my closet. Hopefully my utter laziness will prevent me from going AAALLLL the way down stairs to my car for the battery just to get my scale fix.

HI. I'm Dee. I'm a Carbaholic

Did I mention I like carbs? Seriously. If there was a carb fan club I would be the president. I like heaping bowls of pasta. I love bread and rice and all things carbohydrate related. If it wasn't for this blog, there is no way that I would stick to the portion sizes for pasta. Just NO WAY!

This whole weight loss thing has taught me a lot about myself. I know there are just certain things that I cannot keep in the house if I want to have a successful week. Like cereal. Cereal is not my friend. Well actually cereal is my friend, we get along really well - too well. I just abuse our relationship. I can't stop at one regular portioned bowl of cereal. Ooooh no. Not me. I can easily finish off a family sized box of cereal in 2 days. (Or 3 days if I've been distracted from the cereal goodness)

And even if I buy a cereal that doesn't seem like it will "fun", I still wind up overeating. So I really try not to buy cereal.

Snacking has also been a hard thing for me. I've tried the whole 100 calorie snack pack things, but when I buy a box of six, I end up eating the whole thing out of boredom/greediness. The only thing that has worked for me along those lines is kettle korn. I can stop at one pack.

And even though lately I've been eating those clif bars or kashi bars, I would NEVER dare buy a pack from the grocery store. I can only be trusted to buy those one at a time (and as you can see from my previous posts, even that method isn't failsafe. ) But its better than nothing.

I am a Carbaholic.

xoxo
dee.

Midterms and other nightmares!

So very Sorry!
I had a midterm last night and a presentation today so I didnt update the blog at all. But now that they are both behind me (wooohooo!) I can get back to the good stuff.

Yesterday I was in a constant rush, but I managed to eat right! So for breakfast I had a quick breakfast of 3 scrambled egg whites, 2oz smoked salmon, and a whole wheat english muffin with 2tbsp WW cream cheese. (Not pictured, I was running late for work)

For lunch I had some veggie soup and an apple. I even managed to AVOID the damn Clif bar and got a kashi bar instead (3 points less!! Go Me!)










I had an exam @ 6 pm and I was lucky enough to sit next to a guy who was eating a bagel. I was so jealous. I don't even remember the last time I had a big ol', full fat, all carb, sh*tload of calories plain white bagel. I wanted to steal it. And he must have known it too because he took his sweet time with this damn bagel. I hated him for that.
Finally got home and had dinner -
Chicken breast, brown rice, black beans with diced tomato and green pepper. Good stuff.

Then for dessert I had the usual yogurt and strawberries.







as far as TODAY's menu...I'll make it brief....here goes:
Breakfast
3 scrambled egg whites with 1/2 chicken sausage (its in there, look closesly), diced tomatoes and strawberries


For lunch I had a six inch Subway Roast beef sub with american cheese, mayo, and mustard. I was soooo hungry I didnt remember that I was supposed to take a picture until the VERY last bite. haha. sorry! It was a boring sub anyway :)



I am not a huge fan of salads, but I had a huge ass salad for dinner LoL. Mixed greens, 1 diced fuji apple, chicken breast, chick peas, 1/4 c mozzarella cheese, 2 tbsp raspberry dressing. It was good (as good as a salad can get anyway...)






xoxo
dee.

Pancakes for Breakfast!

Hi!!

I looked my the blueberries this morning and decided to make blueberry pancakes!! Yay! I just mushed some blueberries and added it to the Fiber One pancake batter. Poured 1/4 cup lite pancake syrup on top and added 3 scrambled egg whites on the side.

Really good. I'm wondering if I could use the batter to make muffins...if anyone knows, please leave a comment because I don't wanna waste food on experiments unnecessarily.


I'm on campus so I actually packed something decent for the day. Strawberries for snacking.....









For lunch I had a garden burger and a banana. I think I am having a hungry day because I'm not full right now...Ugh...I have a feeling I am going to go over my points today. I can almost guarantee it.....We'll see.....


I had a cliff bar before my evening class......
still hungry..........


So basically I went over points today....thats the way it goes sometimes. Luckily extra points are built into Weight Watchers for days like this.
I had another Clif Bar. Best choice? Nope. But dammit I wanted it! When I got home from campus I was starving and had no solid plan for the dinner menu so I just raided my fridge.


I had a cup of the leftover noodles that I bought this past weekend. Then I followed that up with some smoked salmon/couscous/green pea concoction that I didnt like too much so after a few bites I through it out. At this point I was annoyed and unsatisfied so I made a chicken hotdog and called it a night




xoxo
dee.