Sunday 11-20-11

Hi guys!  Sorry again for the day-late post.  Last night after I finished uploading my food pics to my comp my Internet stopped working.  After messing with it for a long time I gave up.  I tried posting a blog from my phone but it was way too frustrating.  Thankfully my hubby fixed it before I got up this morning, so here I am. I was splurge-y last night.  I was so good all day and even worked out and had a super light dinner so that I'd stay within my points without using the rest of my weeklies, but my hubby kept bugging me all night to bake cookies.  (It was raining super hard and we were watching Christmas cartoons! It just felt mandatory!)  I kept refusing because I didn't have points left for cookies and didn't want to torture myself baking a delicious something I couldn't eat, but ultimately I gave in. I have been craving chocolate and peppermint together ever since that day I tried to get a skinny peppermint mocha from Target Starbucks and they were out of syrup or whatever, and seeing all the holiday inspired deliciousness on Pinterest every day surely doesn't help my cause. Blah...so I went wild and ate every weekly point and dipped into my activity points and it showed on the scale this morning because I was up .2 of a lb.  This could also be because I didn't nurse baby girl right before weigh in like I usually do and it could also be weight gain from all the weight lifting I did this week. My pre-pregnancy jeans fit better this weekend so I really think that's part of it.  Muscle is more dense than fat and I do seem to be taking up less space in my clothes.  I also know that I didn't always make the best choices last week so I'll have to try harder this week. (Thanksgiving week, gaaah!)

We leave for Oklahoma early tomorrow morning, so I am nervous about how this week will go.  On the plus side we did decide at the last minute to rent a car while we're there so that we aren't dependent on other people for rides, which means a little more freedom. This means I can go buy my organic skim milk, egg whites and other staples if I want to and that should help enormously.  Anyway, this is what I ate yesterday, Sunday November 20th:

Breakfast (12 pts)
Egg white omelet with neufchatel & scallions, 2 links of turkey sausage, Everything bagel thin with neufchatel & 2 organic skim milk/sugar free hazelnut lattes

Snack (5pts)
Organic pear & baby arugula salad with homemade honey dijon vinaigrette, walnuts, gorgonzola cheese and golden raisins

Lunch (13 pts)
Buffalo chicken salad sandwich (inspired by a Skinny Taste dip that I love) on a Sara Lee White Wheat bun, celery sticks, a slice of reduced fat Colby Jack cheese and a chocolate cherry bomb green monster smoothie (frozen banana, organic baby spinach, frozen sweet cherries and Soy Slender chocolate soy milk in the blender.)

Dinner (9 pts)
Very light breakfast sandwich with ham, light cheese, egg whites and Sara Lee Delightful bread and a small homemade pumpkin spice pancake with fat free Reddi-Wip, pumpkin pie spice and walnuts

Dessert (18 pts!!!)
3 homemade dark chocolate candy cane Kiss thumbprint cookies and hot cocoa made with Diet Swiss Miss, peppermint extract, Splenda and topped with fat free Reddi-Wip and 10 g Andes peppermint chips. So freakin delicious.  I only baked 9 of the cookies last night and froze the rest of the dough in balls so they're ready to bake another time.  They definitely hit the spot for my chocolate/peppermint craving!

Thanks for reading friends.  I will try to get back on here tonight, even if it's just for a quick post, to update about what I ate today.  I have a busy day of cleaning and packing ahead of me so if I don't update tonight that's why.  I doubt I'll be updating when I'm in Oklahoma but you never know.