Today was one of those days where I just never quite woke up. It's kind of a blur. (My kids took turns waking me up last night. It was great fun.) I also feel like I might be coming down with something. I'm just...off and my throat is slightly sore. I had the best intentions today but it ended with an unplanned splurge. I made myself work out today while the kids napped and used up the last of my 36 points with dinner. I planned to have 0 point fruit for dessert during my Gleek fest (yay, Glee is back!) The hubby asked me to bake something and after some hesitation I ultimately decided it would be ok to use a few weekly points on this very special night. I couldn't think of anything quick enough to bake before Glee started and then I remembered my mom's 3-ingredient peanut butter cookie recipe (which I usually lighten up with Splenda and egg sub) and I also remembered the sugar free Reese's Peanut Butter cups I bought the other day. Without first calculating what the points+ would be (because I was in a hurry to have them done before Glee started) I went ahead and baked a low carb version of a friend's mom's peanut butter cup cookie recipe, and hubby fell asleep so I was alone with them! I ended up eating 3 of them with milk....and then during a commercial break I had another one, ugh! After Glee was over I hopped on my computer to use WW's "recipe builder" tool and was horrified to find that despite my efforts to lighten them up the cookies were still a whopping 4 pts+ each. Oh well, at least I had the weekly points for them and at least I've worked out twice in a row. Lesson learned! So this was my menu today:
Breakfast (14 pts)
Nutty chocolate cranberry oatmeal (1/2 c. old fashioned rolled oats + 1 c. organic skim milk + 15 g mini chocolate chips + 1 packet Splenda + 20 g dried cranberries + 8 g sliced almonds) and my usual skim milk/sugar free hazelnut lattes
Snack (0 pts)
1 1/2 c. strawberries + 5 g fat free Reddi-Wip for dipping them in
Lunch (9 pts)
Low fat chicken & veggie pot pie
Post workout snack (4 pts)
1 slice Sara Lee Delightful whole wheat bread + 1/2 Tbsp reduced fat crunchy peanut butter + 1/2 Tbsp strawberry preserves and a .5 oz bag of mini pretzels
Dinner (10 pts)
4 oz blackened tilapia with lemon, 1/2 c. herbed long grain & wild rice pilaf and organic baby greens topped with 1 Tbsp spicy Ranch dressing
Dessert (18 pts...ouch.)
4 reduced carb peanut butter cup cookies and a glass of organic skim milk
Now I am chugging lots of water and regretting my decision to bake something after I had already decided my only dessert for the night would be fruit. Yes, they were super delicious, but my goodness, not sure they were worth 18 pts---half of my daily points target! I should have known. I'm never to be trusted alone with peanut butter. It's one of my trigger foods and I know that. What was I thinking?! I'm trying to move on and not dwell on this but I'm having a major "duh" moment. I guess there will be no skipping workouts for me this week! I better get going. Thanks for reading my little vent. Goodnight folks!
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