Where did Christmas go???

Well, the big day has come and gone. How did that happen? It was 3 straight days of eating, drinking and being merry and it was lovely! And it was 3 days in a row of Little P :) He was generous enough to give me TWO framed pictures of himself. The one frame says : Aunt - like mom only cooler! Loved it :) The other is his one of his pics from Sears. Too friggin' cute!
Food lowdown for the holidays: too much consumed! Lots of veggies and dip around though so that was a help. Also lots of homemade perogies and such. Not much of a help! Overall, it could have been worse.
Excercise lowdown: None, nada, zip! Me, myself and I had a couple conversations that were something along the lines of this:
Me: you should go for a run
Myself: but it's snowing/raining/sleeting
Me: you still should TRY and go
I: but I might slip and fall
Me: at least you will be getting excercise while getting back up from said fall!
As you can see Myself and I ganged up on me and there was no running!
OK, enough of that!
It was a great couple of days and today I was back into the swing of things. I drank all my water (what a concept!) and my body is thanking me!
Menu:
B: toast with pb and j (3)
L: cup of soup (1), salad (1), cottage cheese (2), 2 bites of potato salad (2), clementines (1)
D: Strange but true - french toast sandwiches (7). I'm on my own tonight and was searching for something easy to eat when I remembered something from my childhood. My mom made french toast and melted a slice of cheese between 2 pieces and then you could put syrup on them. Sounds weird but it's really good!
S: chips and dip (4). Chips are called Kettle Bakes - you can have 32 chips for 3 pts!
Check them out HERE
Happy Day before FRIDAY!!!!

He's coming tonight....

Hope Santa is good to you :)
Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!!

Here I am!!

I am here but maybe I shouldn't be. I ran yesterday...that was about the only good thing throughout the day. Had drinks and nachos for dinner!! WAY too many points. Tonight we're having Christmas with my cousin and her man and the downstairs neighbours. Guess what's for dinner??? Appetizers and drinks! I'm going to be aware of my choices. And I notice now that I get full a lot quicker so that helps! My Christmas wrapping is FINALLY finished as is the shopping. I just want to go to Ricki's tomorrow to see if I can find a Christmas eve shirt.
I will check back tomorrow and then probably be MIA until Boxing Day.
And I'm going to try and go running tomorrow AM and the 24th AM sans running partner. That will help!

Surprise, surprise!

Just a quickie to say that the scale decided to let me stay the same this week. No loss...but no gain either. Sometimes you just never know.
We're having J's parents over for dinner tonight. On the menu is vegetarian meatballs in the crockpot with a maple BBQ sauce (5), bread from the breadmaker (4??) (whole grain), roasted cauliflower (0), and spinach and mandarin salad with feta and calorie wise poppyseed dressing (2). Mmmmm, sounds good. And all that is topped off with strawberry shortcake. Cake made with Splenda and light margarine and strawberries sweetened with Splenda (4??).
B: Fruit and fruit dip (3)
L: 1 piece pizza (4), veggies (0), fruit (2), cheeseball and crackers (4)
I will be over points today...ask me if I care!

Whoa....where'd that attitude come from!!!!
Oh yeah, today is my last day of work until the 27th....Welcome to Christmas :)

Gearing up for a gain

I'm honestly not sure how many points I ate today at lunch. And at this point it doesn't really matter. Suffice it to say, I did NOT stick to the veggies, dip and shrimp. There may have been cheese pizza, 3 squares, and cheese, cheese and more cheese in there. (Seriously though, who shows up to a potluck with pizza...and specifically a cheese pizza for ME??? Men...)
So, I will face the scale in the AM and see what it has in store for me. On a funny note, being the obsessive scale hopper that I am, I got on the scale after work and weighed less than I did this morning. WTF??? I guess you just never know what your body will do!
B: WW toast with PB and J (3)
L: ?????????
D: 2 grilled cheese sandwiches (3)

Jen - here's hoping that your body is waiting until tomorrow to drop the pounds this week :)

There may have been an incident...

with raspberry macaroon squares. I didn't just eat half either...I ate TWO! And I had not figured any treats into my day. Whoops. I now have like 6 (wait a minute...I have 9!!!) weekly points left and a work Christmas lunch tomorrow. I can tell you right now, I will be over points. However, I know there will be shrimp and veggies and dip so if I can stick mostly to that stuff, I might be alright. If there's raspberry macaroon squares....I'm SCREWED!!!
B: WW toast with PB & J (3)
L: Soup (1), Salad (1), Melba (2), Cottage cheese (2), V8 (1), Clementines (1)
S: TWO squares (4??) - if I count 4 then I *almost* fit them into my day!
D: Veggie lasagna (6) - I cheated and bought this one. It was Masterchoice Brand and it's a good sized tray and you can have 1/4 of the tray for 6 points...I was impressed! Salad with cheese (2)
So not so bad when I write it out...I had thought in my head that I was higher...

Exhausted!

Did not sleep well last night and I'm really hurting today! I will keep this short and sweet...
Food:
B: oatmeal (3)
L: cup of soup (1), melba (2), ff cream cheese (1), cukes and hummus (1), V8(1), cravings cheesecake (1), clementines (1)
S: shrimp (1)
D: 2 pita pizzas (8)
S: hot chocolate (1), coffee crisp (2)

How can you NOT adore him???

Too freakin' cute for words.

But on to my Sunday: Very productive day. Got up and dropped stuff off at my cousin's that she still had here. Went for breakfast. Got tree in house and in stand and decorated. Cleaned up mess afterwards. Cleaned bathroom. 2 loads of laundry done. Dinner prepared and dishes cleaned. Whew.
Food -
B: 2 eggs (4), hashbrowns (3), toast (4)
S: WW bread with brushetta topping (2)
D: Boca cheeseburger (2), WW bread (1), Kraft Dinner! (6)
S: Tea and coffee crisp single (2)
Have gotten through the weekend with some flex still intact. This will come in handy as I have a Christmas lunch at work on Wednesday. I want to lose a bit more this week so I'll have LOADS of wiggle room for Christmas/New Years drinks!!

The Good and The Bad...

Good: I got to see little P today!
Bad: It was at L's house and they have a lot of chocolate sitting around!

Good: We got our Christmas tree today!
Bad: We can't put it up today because it is too snowy and would get the house wet!

Good: I dragged the Christmas tree out of the field, which was awesome excercise.
Bad: My back hurts!

Good: We made cabbage rolls today. My vegetarian ones work out to barely a point each!
Bad: After cooking some up for lunch, cookies were put out...I had half of one and some wine.

Good: We had Subway for dinner, even though I wanted Arby's curly fries.
Bad: I also had hot chocolate and popcorn!

I think the good has definitely outweighed the bad today and overall, eating was fairly decent for a Saturday.
B: 1 piece pizza (4)
L: 3 cabbage rolls (3), bread (4), wine (4), half a cookie (3)
D: Veggie sub (10)
S: Hot chocolate (1), Popcorn (2)

Oops!

Why is it that after a great weigh in, I'm not motivated to keep going with what I'm doing to be successful? I put myself in a bad position tonight. I went Christmas shopping at the "OC" right after work. I grabbed a box of Triscuits for the ride...there was about half of them left...I almost ate them all! I figured I'd count that as my dinner but crackers don't seem to stay with you very long. Especially when you have to pick up a few groceries before coming home. I bought a pizza even though I knew I shouldn't. I cooked the pizza, knowing I shouldn't. I ate half the pizza, all the while telling myself NOT to! What is wrong with me?????
So good news is, I only have one more present to buy. Bad news, my food was horrible today!
B: ww bagel and cream cheese (2)
L: cup of soup (1), triscuits (3), cheese (2), cukes and hummus (1), V8(1), tapioca pudding (2)
S: Triscuits (10??)
D: Pizza (16) OUCH!

The Menu Challenge ROCKS!

I can't thank JEN enough for the menu challenge idea! This week, I found my wiggle room...

I LOST 3.2 POUNDS!
It was totally unexpected. The scale wasn't being THAT nice to me until this morning! You just never know!
I'm having a bit of trouble typing as we went running after work and my hands are still a bit frozen!! There isn't too much new except there were treats at work and instead of the brownies and buttertart squares, I chose veggies and dip. That is a first. I didn't even have 1/2 a square! This evening is going to be a different story as I think I could eat my house right now...I'm SO hungry. And I've already eaten dinner!
B: same WW bagel with cream cheese (2) and a smoothie (1)
L: Salad (0), V8 (1), 9 triscuits (3), cottage cheese (2), apple (1)
S: Veggies and dip (1)
D: Baked tostitos (6), cheese (2), chili (2)
S: 100 cal fig newtons (2)
S2: ??? but I'm afraid there will be another snack!
GOOD LUCK tonight, JEN!

Hump Day

Well, here we are, mid-week again! A run was planned but not executed...maybe tomorrow when the sidewalks have been cleared off. Work was OK today. I guess I've got little to report again except for food...
B: WW bagel with FF cream cheese (2), WW smoothie (1)
L: Portabello veggie burger (1) on ww bread (1), veggies and hummus (1), V8 (1), Cravings cheesecake (1), clementines (1)
S: 1/2 cookie (3)...YES, it happened again!
D: Leftover chili (4) with 27 baked tostitos (4)
S: Dessert tea (0), choc. pretzel bar (2)
That is it!

Second verse...same as the first!

Today's eating for breakfast and lunch was unchanged. Well, that's a bit of a lie...there was 1/2 of a cookie involved!! I'm counting that as 3. And yes, I broke the cookie in half at work and just ate the one half. A bit of progress!
Dinner: Chili (4) and biscuits (3)
S: Probably tea (0) and choc. pretzel bar again!! (2)
Nothing too exciting to report today. Not feeling the greatest so I will hopefully just take it easy tonight.
It's almost hump day...that much closer to the weekend :)

Whirlwind day!

Worked all day. Then came home and went running...sidewalks are tricky to run on this time of year, but a good workout! Then L brought Little P for an unexpected visit while she went shopping. He ended up being here from 5-8pm. Made dinner while Little P slept. Ate dinner at 8pm. Made J's lunch. Didn't do dishes...oops! And am now sitting down to blog and have a bit of a rest before bed!
Food today:
B: WW bagel with FF cream cheese (2) & WW smoothie (1)
L: Salad with FF caesar dressing (1), cottage cheese (2), V8 (1), clementines (1), WW yogurt (1)
S: 1/2 piece olive bread (1)
D: Portabello mushroom burger (1), bun (3), homemade fries (4)
S: Light hot chocolate (1), 100 cal choc pretzel bar (2)
What a well planned day! *insert pat on back here!*

PSS (or is it PPS??...PMS???)

All of the above...probably!
Just wanted to add that I already have packed my breakfast and lunch and have actually journaled it!! First time the journal has been in use for weeks..maybe months!!

PS

The recipe for the pancakes came from HERE! A lot of great ideas on here AND the nutritional info including FIBRE. She is a WW'er afterall...and a genius!

Weekends are hard!

So yesterday went according to plan. 1 caesar, a cup of soup and a clemintine to add into the mix. I think I pretty much accounted for everything. It's hard when it's appetizers though!
Today...was busy with Little P most of the day. His parents had L's staff work party and were pretty hung today so he didn't leave until 4pm...yep, 24 hours of Preston! He was too cute. And overall, a great baby. Slept from 830pm to 630am! We got to try sweet potato for lunch today for the first time. He loved it!!
Anyway, on to the eating. I had a bit of a slip up today...I ate what I thought was a late breakfast but when you get up at 630, it turns out that 9am felt "late"! So I wasn't really planning on having lunch per se but I did have lunch...it consisted of pretzels and pita chips! Oops.
Otherwise -
B: Whole wheat pancakes - 1pt each, I had 4! I added a few chocolate chips to the batter (2)
L: Pita chips/pretzels (10??)
D: Spicy basa filet (3), perogies (3), spicy beans (1)
S: Tea and 100 cal choc. pretzel bar(2) - frig, enough with the pretzels already!!!
So had I not pigged out on snacks, I would have been fine!
On to tomorrow!!

Mission: find wiggle room!

Going well so far - foodwise anyway. No excercise in and there probably won't be for the weekend. Sometimes it's just not in the cards. T minus 3 hours until Little P arrives for his overnight. We also have my parents dog, Rascal for the weekend. Busy place. Cleaning is done, laundry in progress.
Eating today:
Late B: 1 egg (2), WW bagel with becel spray (2), 1 tbsp ketchup (0)
S: 100 cal goldfish pretzels
Saving up for appetizers when L,J & P arrive - serving olive bread with garlic oil/balsamic vinegar dip, pickles, cheese, olives, pita chips and asiago dip and hummus. I'm so excited about it!! Ballpark points: 12
Probably having a caesar or 2.
May need a snack later on in the night.
I CAN DO THIS!

Menu Challenge!

Good idea, Jen! I find if I am writing my menu on here, then I think twice before I eat it! So I will work on incorporating my menu in my posts everyday!
SO:
B: WW bagel with light PB and jam (4)
L: Melba (2), cheese (2), I forgot the soup!!! (0 either way!), clementines (1), V8 (1)
D: I'm thinking Subway! (10)
There will likely be a drink or snack in there somewhere. I will let you know.
Happy weekend...I CANNOT wait until 3pm (I'm leaving early today!!!).

***Update: had another bagel with PB when I got home (4) plus a caesar later on (3) plus a WW chocolate (1). It IS Friday afterall! I had been eating about 24 points to maintain but I'll have to try and drop down again to get back the wiggle room :)

Sometimes it sucks to be right :(

Gain of 1 lb this week. Yep, it's farewell to the wiggle room. BUT I WILL GET IT BACK!!! I can do it (thanks for the reminder, Jen!!). This has been an unusual 2 weeks with work and with social stuff going on constantly. I'm going to try and be more diligent about posting my menus when I can as that was keeping me from eating the truckloads of pretzels before. And I will get out for runs but it might not be as much as before because it is WINTER and I don't enjoy freezing my ass off!!
I'm actually quite proud. I was frozen out of my car pre and post work on Monday. I was so pissed off about it that I have been walking to work since then. It is ONLY 10 minutes each way but that is 10 minutes more than before.
Anyway, I'm considering this my official kick in the pants!
Food today:
B: WW bagel with light PB and jam (4)
L: Light progresso soup (0), Melba (2), Veggies and hummus (1), V8 (1)
S: 2 clemintines (1?)
S: Caesar (3), 100 cal ritz mix (2)
D: ????

I'm a little worried

that tomorrow is going to be the death of the wiggle room. It will be a sad, sad day but maybe what I need to get outta this funk. I cannot seem to function when I get home from work. My laundry is almost piled to the ceiling (thankfully I own many, many clothes!), my Christmas cards are sitting here blank...just staring at me, and I can't remember the last time I did a "real" grocery shop AND I've missed 2 runs in a row. And what am I doing right now, you ask? Sitting on the couch, watching Ellen with absolutely no plans to move anytime soon. At least I'm aware of the problem. I guess that's a start?

Not going well...

This week is turning into a write off. Bad attitude, I know! Today was so busy at work that I didn't get to eat my lunch. That = stuffing my face with pretzels when I got home, all the while knowing that I should take the time and make something substantial that would have been less points then a truckload of pretzels. I was also supposed to run after work but since I didn't have lunch, I did have a headache and was just in a crappy mood all around. Therefore, I backed out of my run even though my running partner said that she was going without me!
Someone kick me in the ass....PLEASE!!!!

Recovering!

VERY busy weekend. VERY crappy Monday. Should go to bed but cannot get off the couch. That about sums up the day :)