Tuesday 10-25-11

Hi guys.  I have to make this quick.  My kids (who should be asleep right now but aren't) need me.  Yup, still sick!  Baby girl got her very first ear infection so we spent our morning at the pedi, then the pharmacy.  I feel horrible for her.  Anyway, here's what I ate today:

Breakfast (12 pts)
Avocado bacon cheddar egg white omelet with homemade salsa and light sour cream, and 2 lattes made with organic skim milk, coffee and sugar free peppermint mocha creamer.

Snack (0 pts)
2 clementines

Lunch (9 pts)
2 c. bowl of menudo with lime, cilantro and onions.  I feel like I'm getting sick and this sounded good to me.

Sorry about the horrible pic! It was so pretty til I added the saucy veggies to my plate!

Dinner (10 pts) 
Pork chop with mushrooms and shallots in a dijon herb sauce, 1/2 c. parmesan and roasted garlic mashed red potatoes and 1/2 c. Trader Joe's fire roasted veggies in balsamic butter sauce.  The veggies were good but I won't make them with this meal again; I don't know what I was thinking doing two sauces on one plate!  The sauce from the veggies took over my plate and it wasn't pretty.  (Yummy, but still...)

Dessert (5 pts) 
74 g Market Pantry reduced fat chocolate chip ice cream

Ok, I better get to my kiddos!  They're sick and I don't know why they're fighting sleep so hard!  I need my rest too since tomorrow will be a busy day.  Good night all!

Monday 10-24-11

Good evening!  I just got done having a late dinner and I am super full.  I had a busy day of cleaning, caring for my still sick babies and playing phone tag with the pediatrician.  We took a family grocery trip this evening because I was too busy to go myself today, and we all wanted to get out of the house.  I picked up ingredients for the rest of the week's dinners, plus some cheap, no-fuss dinner for tonight since we got done so late.  I used weekly points but I'm still ok.  I lost .4 of a pound at weigh in this morning, shockingly, but I need to do better this week.  I wasn't super healthy today, lots of processed foods and not enough produce but it could have been worse. This is what I ate today:


Breakfast (8 pts)
Egg whites, center cut bacon, Sara Lee Delightful wheat toast with Smart Balance light, 2 organic skim milk/fat free vanilla caramel lattes.


Lunch (10 pts)
2 chili dogs with Hebrew National 97% fat free all beef hot dogs, white wheat buns, 1/2 c. 98% fat free turkey chili from a can, 2 Tbsp shredded reduced fat cheddar cheese, mustard, light mayo, ketchup, onions and pickle relish.

Dinner (28 pts!)
1/2 of a small thin crust Philly cheese steak pizza (from the frozen aisle), 3 cheddar cheese jalapeno poppers with 1 Tbsp Hidden Valley Ranch dressing for dipping, organic baby greens & herb salad with 1 Tbsp Hidden Valley Ranch dressing and a Diet Shasta Root Beer.

Ouch, I used 46 of 36 pts today!  I have a yummy, healthy day planned for tomorrow though.  Good night all!

Saturday 10-22-11

Hi guys. I realize this is a day late, but better late than never!  I had a super splurge-tastic day yesterday.  I didn't track dinner so I don't have point totals to share, but I kept a mental note of it.  We went to our friend's 30th birthday dinner last night (without our two kiddos) at a Mexican place and..I don't know, I used it as an excuse to go nuts.  I am sure I probably went into the red last night, points-wise and probably ruined any chance for a good weigh in tomorrow, especially since we have more fun plans today, but what can you do?  It was a really awesome night and it was nice to have a "date" with my hubby and unwind with some other grown-ups. So anyway, this is what I ate yesterday:

Breakfast (9 pts)
1/2 c. egg whites, 2 slices of center-cut bacon, 2 slices of Delightful wheat toast with Smart Balance light and strawberry preserves, and 2 organic skim milk/fat free vanilla caramel creamer.

Lunch (8 pts)
A Trader Joe's jalapeno chicken sausage in a 90 calorie white wheat hot dog bun with melted reduced fat pepper jack, an organic Bartlett pear and 1/2 an oz of cheddar cheese.

Dinner out at Fidel's/Norte's (points unknown, but a lot I'm sure)
Chips and salsa, and I lost count of the chips within our first 30 minutes there, so who knows? 3 strawberry margaritas (ridiculous, I know, but hubby was DD) 2 cream cheese & cheddar jalapeno poppers with Ranch dressing, about half of my chorizo with eggs, a tiny bit of beans with cheese and maybe a scoop of rice. By the time dinner came I was full from chips/poppers/drinks, so I brought more than half of my plate home and enjoyed it for breakfast this morning. Then I had a regular margarita on the rocks to top it all off, doh! It was good though.

I need to get back on track as soon as possible; the dress I'm wearing on Halloween just barely fits right now so I cannot afford to gain any weight or bloat or anything!  I'm going to chug water like a son of a gun today and hope I flush out some of the sodium. Wish me luck. Be back later...

Friday 10-21-11

Hi hi!  Just taking a quick break from costume making to update you guys.  My babies are still sick, so running errands and then starting hubby's Flynn Rider jerkin proved harder than I thought.  I had lots of interruptions and jammed up my sewing machine more than a few times, so the costume (so far) isn't great looking, but it'll do.  I ordered a pizza again....aaaah!  I know, I know!  So I used a bunch of weeklies but I still have some left for tomorrow and Sunday.  At least I bought thin crust. This is what I ate today:

Breakfast (12 pts)
Breakfast sandwich with black forest ham, sharp cheddar, egg whites and delightful wheat toast, and 2 organic skim milk/fat free vanilla cinnamon creamer.

Lunch (13 pts)
Leftover pan-seared chicken in creamy lemon sauce with spinach and orzo "risotto"

Dinner and snack a lil later (23 pts)
3/8 of a Domino's large thin crust pepperoni pizza plus 4 pieces of boneless chicken with Kicker hot sauce and diet root beer

48 pts, yowza!  But I still have 12 WPs left so it's not the end of the world. Ok, gotta get back to my project.  Good night all!

Thursday 10-20-11

I just realized this morning that Halloween is only 11 days away and our costumes aren't ready yet!  Up until yesterday baby girl and I were going to do a Tangled theme together while hubby and our son were going to do a Kung Fu Panda theme, but the hubs told me to go ahead and make him a Flynn Rider costume and figure out a Tangled costume for our son.  So we officially have a family theme this year, something we've been doing for a few years now.  I'm pretty happy about it. I will be Mother Gothel (costume is mostly done), dear daughter will be Rapunzel, dear son will be Pascal (the funny little chameleon, Rapunzel's sidekick) and the hubs will be Flynn Rider!  It took me just about all day to collect all of the materials I need for the rest of our costumes.  I had a heck of a time finding material for Flynn's jerkin, so we did a lot of running around and I finally just settled on something when the two-year-old had a huge meltdown in the middle of the fabric store.  I will begin sewing tomorrow!  We were out pretty much all day so we ended up eating drive-thru food, but I made a decent choice, I think. Here's what I ate today:

Breakfast (12 pts)
Veggie and spicy sausage scramble (1 Trader Joe's spicy jalapeno chicken sausage chopped up with onions, tri-color peppers, mushrooms, spinach & tomatoes in EVOO with egg whites and reduced fat pepper jack cheese), 1 piece of Sara Lee Delightful toast with pumpkin butter and 2 organic skim lattes with fat free vanilla caramel creamer.

Snack (0 pts)
A honey crisp apple, yum!

Lunch from McDonald's drive-thru (8 pts)
Grilled chicken caesar salad with 1/2 packet of creamy caesar dressing

Dinner (13 pts) 
Pan-seared chicken breast with creamy lemon sauce over a bed of lemony spinach & orzo "risotto."

Dessert (5 pts)
A slice of pumpkin bread with cream cheese glaze

I dipped into weeklies for dessert so I used 38/36 pts today.  No formal exercise but I was on my feet all day so I don't feel *too* bad about it.  Good night all!

Wednesday 10-19-11

Good evening friends!  I am pretty exhausted.  I spent most of my day cleaning (blah) and caring for my poor little babies.  Both of them are sick so there were a lot of tears today.  Thankfully no one has a fever, just a whole lot of coughing and boogers.  (Probably not what you wanted to read on a food blog, sorry!)  I never got to go to the gym because hubby had to sleep after work so he could go right back tonight, so I feel bad about that, but it's not like I would have had time anyway.  Oh well, there is always tomorrow!  This is what I ate today:

Breakfast (11 pts)
1/2 c. Ore Ida hash browns with onions and peppers cooked in 1 tsp canola oil and scrambled with 1.25 oz Reynaldo's soy chorizo, 1/2 c. carton egg whites and 1 slice Sargento reduced fat pepper jack cheese and eaten with 1 Romero's whole wheat flour tortilla and my usual organic skim lattes (this time with 1 Tbsp sugar free peppermint mocha creamer, yum!)

Lunch (12 pts)
3 oz leftover slow cooked turkey tenderloins, 1/2 c. low fat mashed potatoes with turkey gravy, 1/2 c. cornbread stuffing and a cup of steamed mixed veggies.

Dinner (13 pts) 
Chicken and veggie stir fry (broccoli, carrots, red peppers, onions, water chestnuts, sugarsnap peas, celery, garlic & green beans) with just a little bit of sesame ginger sauce, crushed red pepper flakes for spice and 1/2 a package of Oriental flavor ramen noodles. I was too impatient to cook brown rice and the ramen just sounded good! (The ramen is hiding underneath my stir fry which is why you can't see it in the picture.)  I love stir fry with noodles, and this was just so simple and quick.



Well, that's all for now guys.  I ate 36 of 36 points today.  I still have to finish cleaning my kitchen so I better run along.  Thanks for reading.  Good night!

Tuesday 10-18-11

Hello again!  I finally had an on-plan day today.  I managed not to use a single weekly or activity point and I went to the gym.  It felt good to get active again.  I also planned out my dinners for the next week and did some major grocery shopping, so I have no excuses this week!  I hope to lose what I gained over the last 3 weeks.  Thankfully it's not much.  This is what my menu looked like today:

Breakfast (8 pts)
1 Hebrew National 97% fat free all beef hot dog chopped up and scrambled with 2 egg whites (hey, don't knock it til you've tried it!), 2 slices Sara Lee Delightful whole wheat toast + Smart Balance Light and 2 organic skim milk lattes with 1 Tbsp sugar free peppermint mocha creamer.

Lunch (6 pts)
Turkey & Sargento reduced fat pepper jack sandwich on Sara Lee Delightful bread with Best Foods light mayo, mustard and romaine lettuce

Dinner (15 pts)
4 oz slow-cooker herbed turkey tenderloins, low fat mashed potatoes with turkey gravy, 1/2 c. corn bread stuffing, steamed veggies and bread with Smart Balance light.  (It's just half of a Sara Lee white wheat hot dog  bun. Why? Because I didn't feel like making homemade biscuits and because we have a bunch of hot dog buns right now for some reason.)

Dessert (7 pts)
1 slice of pumpkin bread with cream cheese glaze and a glass of organic skim milk


I used 36 of 36 points today and earned 5 activity points, woo-hoo! Goodnight all, "see" you tomorrow.

Hi, I'm back! Confession plus what I ate yesterday, Monday 10-17-11

Hello all!  I feel bad I haven't been updating this at all.  I can't really use the excuse that I've been "too busy" because things chilled out a lot after baby girl's 1st birthday party on the 8th.  (It was a great success by the way!)  I did have more birthday celebrations though, so I've had some busy weekends.  It's no excuse though.  I promised I'd post the "good, bad and ugly" on this blog and I haven't delivered on that, so I am very sorry to you and to myself; I have really let my healthy lifestyle go these last few weeks.  I barely tracked my food at all.  I just opened up WeightWatchers.com and was embarrassed to see I had postings on my wall from the 8th that I just now saw.  (Sorry girls, if you're reading this!)  

I weighed in yesterday morning for the first time since the 3rd of October and wasn't at all surprised to see that I'm over goal again.  (Insert heavy sigh.)  I weighed in at 131.6 lbs.  I was disappointed but I also knew that it was well deserved; I have had a ridiculous amount of cake and ice cream since baby girl's birthday party week, between cake pop making before the party and making more cake on her actual birthday and then attending two birthday parties the following weekend.  Yellow cake with chocolate frosting, yellow cake with vanilla frosting, chocolate fudge cake, rainbow white cake, chocolate strawberry cake, pumpkin spice cake, red velvet cupcakes and some other cake I'm not too sure about!  I am ALL CAKED OUT.  We also ate pizza and fast food more times than I care to admit.  Don't even get me started on the candy.  We still have a lot of candy leftover from baby girl's party, and it's mostly chocolate.  I'd say we have a few pounds of purple, black and white M&M's, dark chocolate Hershey kisses, milk chocolate kisses, Almond Joys, Kit Kats, etc.  I'm a little freaked out!  Anyway...

I decided to recommit to WW yesterday after my less-than-desirable weigh in.  I had good intentions.  I woke up, had a low point breakfast, made plans to grocery shop, then the hubby got home from work super early and my plans changed.  We decided to go run a couple errands and take the kids to the pumpkin patch, but we got hungry while we were out and made bad choices.   We settled on Mexican since the restaurant was close to the pumpkin patch (and they had Margarita Monday.)  None of the "healthier" choices appealed to me yesterday so I was "bad", but at least I tracked it all.  It kept me full the entire day though, so I ended up not eating dinner.  I probably shouldn't have had the margarita though.  Oh well, moving on!  This is what I ate yesterday:

Breakfast (8 pts)

1/4 c. Stater Bros carton egg whites, 2 slices Oscar Meyer center cut bacon, 2 slices Sara Lee Delightful whole wheat toast with 1/2 Tbsp of Smart Balance light and 2 organic skim milk lattes with 1 Tbsp Coffee mate fat free caramel vanilla liquid creamer. 

Late lunch/early dinner at Acapulco Mexican restaurant (approx 51 pts)

16 chips with salsa, a garden salad with an oz of Ranch dressing, 1 strawberry margarita, 3 mini chicken flautas, 1 cheese enchilada, about 1/3 c. of pinto beans, about 1/4 c. of Mexican rice and for dessert a mini fried ice cream (shared with my little boy.)  

Yikes, I used approximately 59 pts+ yesterday!  I had to guess at the points though, but if I was anywhere near accurate I am left with 26 weekly points until Monday.  I need to be careful since Sunday is our traditional dinner out/pumpkin carving night with our extended family. I desperately need to go grocery shopping since we've run out of a lot of staples.  My breakfast was pretty ghetto ridiculous this morning, but you'll see later when I post today's menu tonight.  I have turkey tenderloins in the crock pot for dinner so that's good.  Thanks for reading and thanks to those of you who gave me a little push to come back.  I needed it!  

Wednesday 10-5-11

Hi again. I've still been really busy with party preparations.  I still have some stuff to do tonight but decided to take a break since I had to nurse baby girl anyway.  Sorry to make this so quick, but here's the menu today:

Breakfast (12 pts)
Avocado-bacon-cheddar egg white omelet with light sour cream & salsa and a giant skim milk/fat free cinnamon vanilla latte

Lunch (0 pts)
I got too busy and forgot to eat lunch!

Snack (4 pts)
2 homemade pumpkin spice/cheesecake frosting cake pops that were made for baby girl's party but just didn't make the cut because they were ugly as heck. (Yummy though!)

Snack (3 pts)
1 oz cheddar cheese

Dinner (12 pts)
Oven "fried" chicken (made with fat free saltine crackers for crunch), 1/2 c. roasted garlic & parmesan mashed potatoes and broccoli with cheese.

Dessert (2 pts)
Another not-so-pretty cake pop

I didn't hit my points target today but I'm close enough and not hungry. There is still so much to be done before bed. Good night all!

Monday 10-3-11

Hi again!  Today ended up being a lot better than the last few days, food-wise, and I worked out today plus walked with the kids.  I dipped into weeklies a little at dinner, but nothing too crazy.  I used 38 of 36 points, so not too bad.  This is what I ate today:


Breakfast (8 pts)
Light breakfast sandwich made with Sara Lee Delightful whole wheat toast, 1/4 c. egg whites, 4 slices of Hormel natural ham, 2% American cheese single and 2 skim milk/fat free cinnamon vanilla creamer latter.

Lunch @ Subway (13 pts, though probably less because I had them remove some of the bread)
6" toasted turkey and pepper jack on 9 grain honey oat bread (with a lot of the bread in the middle scraped out) with avocado, southwest chipotle sauce, spinach, tomatoes, red onions, pepperoncinis, pickles, cucumbers and bell peppers, and a diet Coke.

Snack (3 pts)
A piece of cheddar cheese

Dinner (14 pts)
Grilled hot Italian turkey sausage with tri-color peppers & onions sauteed in olive oil in a white bun with reduced fat pepper jack and 1 oz of Baked! Tostitos scoops on the side with homemade guacamole.

Confession time.

Hello there.  Yes, I have been MIA, and no, it's not been pretty.  Last time I posted I admitted I'd been eating quick, easy foods and barely cooking because I was so busy with my baby girl's party preparations.  Well, it got even worse.  I didn't track my food at all from Friday afternoon until this morning, I did not measure out portions, and I didn't even look up points values for foods before eating them (or at all for that matter.)  Friday night I was light headed from crafting all day so I decided to take a break and relax with a movie, and some brownies---real ones made with dark chocolate, none of those reduced guilt or no-pudge ones.  (Four of them. Yup.)  Saturday I worked on more party prep and took a break in the afternoon to have a date with the hubby.  We dropped the kids off with my parents and had a Mexican restaurant "linner" (late lunch/early dinner).  We had queso fundido with chorizo to start with plus margaritas.  Oh, and pizza again yesterday, this time an "ultimate meat" take-and-bake from Target.  I worked on party decor all day yesterday except for a short break to pick up some supplies at Target & Michael's, which meant no cooking, no measuring, no caring.  Not pretty at all I tell ya.

Weigh in this morning came as no surprise.  I was up 3 lbs.  No, that is not a typo.  My hope is that some of that is water weight from the extreme amount of sodium I took in over the weekend.  This was definitely not how I wanted to start October.  I still have more party prep to do since the party is Saturday, like last second homemade decorations since I have neglected outside decor, the purchasing of perishable items I didn't want to buy too early (like produce), and the baking of Nightmare Before Christmas cupcakes, cake pops and a super healthy smash cake for baby girl.  So much to do, so little time!  I need to pick up some strong mint gum so that I am not tempted to do taste tests during all of the baking I have ahead of me.  Wish me luck!  My willpower is waning and I will need it!