Labor Day Menu 9-5-11

The hubby and I were busy today.  Cox came by in the morning and fixed our Internet and then we dropped the kiddos off with my parents for most of the day.  We had home improvement projects to work on.  Before we got started we house hunted for a little while, looking at quite a few properties, and then went to Home Depot.  We were out for a while and got hungry, and somehow ended up at Denny's.  My Fit Slam meal was only 10 WW pts but the hubby wanted to split some strawberry cream cheese pancake puppies and I totally went for it, and WOW, they were yummy but I'm not so sure they were worth all of those points (9 pts for 3 little puppies!)  We worked on the house all day and got some painting done and were exhausted and famished by the end of it.  We picked up the kids and on the drive home we decided to pick up a Hot & Ready pizza from Little Caesar's. OUCH!  Normally I'd eat a huge salad and only have a couple slices of pizza, but noooo, I was too hungry/tired/impatient and I just dug in mindlessly.  I was a very, very bad girl today.  I didn't want to post because it's sort of embarrassing, but since I promised I'd share "the good, bad and ugly" here it is, today's ridiculous 83 point (holy cow, I know) menu: 

Breakfast (11 pts)

Egg white scramble with 1/2 of a leftover hot Italian lean turkey sausage, onions, tri-color peppers, EVOO, Sargento reduced fat pepper jack cheese, Delightful whole wheat toast with Smart Balance Light and 2 skim milk lattes made in my usual way.

Lunch at Denny's (22 pts)

3 strawberry pancake puppies with cream cheese frosting (not pictured), 2 coffees with creamer and Splenda and a Fit Slam, which is 2 egg whites scrambled with tomatoes & spinach, 2 slices of turkey bacon, an English muffin (to which I added strawberry jam) and seasonal fruit.

Dinner from Little Caesars (41 pts!!! YIKES.)

4 slices of pepperoni pizza, 4 pieces of crazy bread and Diet Shasta root beer. Can we say "regret" and "not worth it"?! Oh well, moving on!

Dessert (9 pts)

Reduced guilt brownie topped with 67 g (1/2 c.) Dreyer's yogurt blends fat free vanilla ice cream, 5 g of chocolate chips, 5 g of walnuts and a glass of organic skim milk. Really unnecessary but I was having a killer chocolate craving.  Hmmm...

I am really disappointed that I ate such a stupid amount of points today when the food wasn't even all that great, but all I can do is move on and make sure not to have a repeat any time soon.  I need to plan my weekly menu tomorrow and stick to it.  I only have 2 more weekly points remaining to last until Sunday so I need to be very careful the rest of the week.  On the bright side, today wasn't all bad.  I posted a 0.2 lb gain since Friday which bummed me out this morning, but then on a whim I decided to gauge how close I am to my goal size by trying on a pair of size 5 pre-pregnancy jeans.  I wanted to see how far up I could get them compared to the last time I tried.  Much to my surprise they actually FIT!  That made me super happy since I haven't fit into those jeans in YEARS and today they fit well enough to wear out in public.  That's why I know I'll get right back on track tomorrow.  It's these small victories that make it all worthwhile.  So that's my bit of happy news to soften the blow of a rough, off-track day.  Goodnight all.  I'll be back tomorrow with a much better, home-cooked menu, I promise.