Saturday, September 8, 2007
The Car Trip - Friday, All Day
There is something about sitting in a car for close to eight hours that drives one to munching. I am totally amazed that I made it through yesterday by using only 12 extra points. Of course with all that activity you work it off...hmmmm I guess not. At any rate it is coming off my Flex point total for the week, so whatever. I did try out the Thinsations Oreo. I am not really a cookie fan at the best of times, but there were a lot of them, which kept me busy for a few kilometers. Other than that it was standard car snackage...Diet Coke, Lay's All Dressed chips, an apple...wait a minute, how did that get in there? Lunch was a Club Sub from Subway, so I had the Tide Pen in use during the first hour or so eliminating the "drippage" stains....activity points maybe?
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Weigh In
Down another 1.6 pounds! Whoo hoo! *\o/* 14.6 total lost so far! It is just a drop in the bucket, but sure beats going up any further!
Today we will be rushing around like crazy to get ready for our trip north to see the kids. My bad, as I always leave the laundry to the last minute, and of course the shopping. We don't have to start home until next Friday, so I will have a whole week to visit with my darling daughter-in-love and son. Hubby and son have male bonding activities planned, one of which will be to play in a golf tournament together, so they will get up to all sorts of "no good" while ddil and I can catch up on all the goings on in our lives! We eat every meal together while we are up there, but since the 'old folks' snore really loudly it is kinder that we stay in a hotel at night!
Thank goodness staying on program won't be a problem this trip. It gets tricky when we have to eat in restaurants. For the moment? I am happy as a clam, doing laundry and making a Costco "gotta buy" list for this afternoon's shopping trip! Of all things, paper toweling tops the list, because it is super expensive up there...guess even though it is light, it takes up so much room on the truck or something.... So, to heck with flowers! We are toting toweling!
Today we will be rushing around like crazy to get ready for our trip north to see the kids. My bad, as I always leave the laundry to the last minute, and of course the shopping. We don't have to start home until next Friday, so I will have a whole week to visit with my darling daughter-in-love and son. Hubby and son have male bonding activities planned, one of which will be to play in a golf tournament together, so they will get up to all sorts of "no good" while ddil and I can catch up on all the goings on in our lives! We eat every meal together while we are up there, but since the 'old folks' snore really loudly it is kinder that we stay in a hotel at night!
Thank goodness staying on program won't be a problem this trip. It gets tricky when we have to eat in restaurants. For the moment? I am happy as a clam, doing laundry and making a Costco "gotta buy" list for this afternoon's shopping trip! Of all things, paper toweling tops the list, because it is super expensive up there...guess even though it is light, it takes up so much room on the truck or something.... So, to heck with flowers! We are toting toweling!
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Making peace with the pantry...
First order of the day was an emergency run to Safeway to get a few things. We had very special friends visiting for lunch today. I picked up some Breyers Double Churned Fat-Free Ice Vanilla Cream. Wow. At ninety calories for half a cup, it packs a real flavour punch, and is soooooooooo creamy! How do they do that? Since my usual serving of ice cream is 1/4 of a cup, it made the list for great one point treats. ( I am not a saint ...ice cream gives me brain freezes if I eat it in any larger quantities!) Imagine that. Dessert. At lunch time! And I did not only have ice cream, if you please. I had an orange blossom cookie too!
For starters we had tomato wedges with hot Kalamata olives, sprinkled with grated Peccorino Romano cheese and Garlic and Herb Mrs. Dash, then drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar for bread dipping. Next, served with sliced Parisian French bread, was a simple iceberg lettuce, orange, and onion salad with a sweet onion dressing. Our main course was bow tie pasta with large shrimp, dressed with garlic, butter and basil pesto. Sounds decadent, doesn't it? But the reality is that most of the "sauce" is liquid from the shrimp! For dessert we had ice cream and orange blossom cookies. If I hadn't recorded and measured every single ingredient and weighed out the bread myself, I would have never believed you could eat like this on a weight loss program! Will I ever get to the point where I take eating like this for granted? I now get really resentful when I go to a restaurant and see what my points will "buy", compared to the goodies I concoct at home, that is for sure! I am starting to view food prep not as a dreaded necessary evil, but as a really enjoyable process. Am I making peace with the pantry?
For starters we had tomato wedges with hot Kalamata olives, sprinkled with grated Peccorino Romano cheese and Garlic and Herb Mrs. Dash, then drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar for bread dipping. Next, served with sliced Parisian French bread, was a simple iceberg lettuce, orange, and onion salad with a sweet onion dressing. Our main course was bow tie pasta with large shrimp, dressed with garlic, butter and basil pesto. Sounds decadent, doesn't it? But the reality is that most of the "sauce" is liquid from the shrimp! For dessert we had ice cream and orange blossom cookies. If I hadn't recorded and measured every single ingredient and weighed out the bread myself, I would have never believed you could eat like this on a weight loss program! Will I ever get to the point where I take eating like this for granted? I now get really resentful when I go to a restaurant and see what my points will "buy", compared to the goodies I concoct at home, that is for sure! I am starting to view food prep not as a dreaded necessary evil, but as a really enjoyable process. Am I making peace with the pantry?
Monday, September 3, 2007
It Is My Two Month Anniversary
And all is well! I started Weight Watchers on July 3 of this year, so today marks the end of my second month on the program. As of this morning, I have lost a total of 12.4 pounds! Now the trick will be to continue the rate until I reach my goal. I am sure there will be plateaus, but that is what the "lifestyle" catch phrase is all about - I will complain about that bridge when I come to it. If push comes to shove, I may have to start exercising, although you know that is as appealing to me as shoving a sharp stick into my eye repeatedly....
Today I am making meatloaf. A family favourite that I rarely make because it has been branded an "evil" food in my mind. My poor little meatloaf didn't deserve the label as it turns out! For 1/8 of this entire loaf, it is only 5 points. 5 points! That includes the supremely evil saucy topping, too!
So, here is my recipe for evil meatloaf ;)
800 gms extra lean ground beef
1 slice Dempster's Prebiotic bread, made into fine crumbs in food processor
1 cup of finely chopped onion, add to crumbs and *veggies if you have them, and process
2 TBSP egg white, or white of one egg
salt, pepper
*I like to throw in a few chopped veggies, like carrots and peppers to give little coloured flecks in the loaf, but today the cupboard was bare!
Top with 1/4 cup of ketchup mixed with 1/4 cup of brown sugar and 1 Tbsp mustard when meatloaf is half through baking time.
This is best served with Green Giant cream style corn spooned over a serving of potatoes mashed with skim milk, salt and pepper. To make the perfect fifties comfort meal, serve cherry Jello or instant pudding for for dessert!
Such good comfort food for this Manitoba rainy day!
Today I am making meatloaf. A family favourite that I rarely make because it has been branded an "evil" food in my mind. My poor little meatloaf didn't deserve the label as it turns out! For 1/8 of this entire loaf, it is only 5 points. 5 points! That includes the supremely evil saucy topping, too!
So, here is my recipe for evil meatloaf ;)
800 gms extra lean ground beef
1 slice Dempster's Prebiotic bread, made into fine crumbs in food processor
1 cup of finely chopped onion, add to crumbs and *veggies if you have them, and process
2 TBSP egg white, or white of one egg
salt, pepper
*I like to throw in a few chopped veggies, like carrots and peppers to give little coloured flecks in the loaf, but today the cupboard was bare!
Top with 1/4 cup of ketchup mixed with 1/4 cup of brown sugar and 1 Tbsp mustard when meatloaf is half through baking time.
This is best served with Green Giant cream style corn spooned over a serving of potatoes mashed with skim milk, salt and pepper. To make the perfect fifties comfort meal, serve cherry Jello or instant pudding for for dessert!
Such good comfort food for this Manitoba rainy day!
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Sunday? Already?
We are having a great long weekend...and it isn't over yet!
Yesterday, we had dinner guests, and today we had lunch at Pineridge Hollow ...everyone and their dog seemed to have the same idea because the place was packed. It is a lovely place to spend a summer's day. We called ahead for reservations, so the wait wasn't too long at all. Spinach soup was the soup of the day, and I just loved it. The cook there sure knows their way around a soup pot! I only had to dip into my weekly Flex points for five points or so, to cover today's "extras". I always assume that I am eating far too much when we go out. I miss my trusty scale, and the security of accurate measurements.
Hubby and I have taken to sharing our meals ...we switch plates quietly when we are "half done" our mutually agreed on choices, and I make sure that his half of things like fries is a lot bigger than my half! Today though, the lion's share of the spinach soup remained with me! Thank goodness he is a good sport, and not a fussy eater. Two in one family would just be one too many, don't you think?
Yesterday, we had dinner guests, and today we had lunch at Pineridge Hollow ...everyone and their dog seemed to have the same idea because the place was packed. It is a lovely place to spend a summer's day. We called ahead for reservations, so the wait wasn't too long at all. Spinach soup was the soup of the day, and I just loved it. The cook there sure knows their way around a soup pot! I only had to dip into my weekly Flex points for five points or so, to cover today's "extras". I always assume that I am eating far too much when we go out. I miss my trusty scale, and the security of accurate measurements.
Hubby and I have taken to sharing our meals ...we switch plates quietly when we are "half done" our mutually agreed on choices, and I make sure that his half of things like fries is a lot bigger than my half! Today though, the lion's share of the spinach soup remained with me! Thank goodness he is a good sport, and not a fussy eater. Two in one family would just be one too many, don't you think?
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