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!
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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)