Splurge Week

Hello Friends!

How're y'all doin'?  Me?  I'm okay.  Pretty good actually.

Those of you who read my last post know I'm doing Weight Watchers and that I have been doing pretty well, until this past week.  Really it was the weekend that did me in.

The hubs and I took a mini vacay to Loveland to go skiing.  We left Friday night and ate dinner at a yummy restaurant in Dillon called Arapahoe Cafe.  I had fish for dinner.  Good choice, right?  The fish wasn't well flavored, but okay.  I went to put it into my WW app to discover my fish was 11 points! I also had a really yummy artichoke rice pilaf.  It had cream cheese in it!  It was like a rice version of hot spinach and artichoke dip!  Also, a ton of points!  There was also a sauteed squash and carrot julienne medley on the side.  Super good, and not bad on points.  But Sistah was HON-GRY!  So I ordered desert...Brownie Bread Pudding with Vanilla Ice Cream...it was SINFULLY good!  I just entered in 30 million points into the tracker.  I'm pretty sure that's an accurate point value.

Breakfast was bad, points wise, too.  I had a homemade waffle with real butter and maple syrup! I also had juice AND whole milk.  BAD MEREDITH!  We left the hotel and hit the slopes.  Ryan is turning out to be a pretty good skier.  By the end of the day he could make it off the ski lift without falling!  For lunch I ate a cheeseburger AND french fries.  BAD MEREDITH!  After lunch I decided to go for a few more runs while Ryan decided to investigate a warm beverage or two.  My tale of my final run of the day will be saved for another blog.

Sunday I ate a whole box of Mac and Cheese by myself--30 points and today I ate two creme filled long johns--22 points, which I deserved for going to a hard session with the therapist, going to a nanny interview, and buying groceries in the snow.

Luckily most of my bad eating was cancelled out by the activity points I earned skiing.  One day of skiing is worth 87 points!  Let me tell you, my legs are feeling all 87 of them!

In conclusion, I did really well for two weeks and then I pigged out this week.  I think that's okay every once  in a while.  I am getting back on track tomorrow.  I am dreading the scale.  Hopefully I maintained my weight and didn't gain much, if any, back.

TTYL!

Meredith

Okay Madame Martinez

Hey y'all!

You don't know how much I long to hear someone say that to me out here.  Coloradans aren't Yankees, but they don't speak Southern either.  Several times I've said something and got a blank stare...awkward...for them.  I know perfectly well how to communicate!

One of my friends, Madame Martinez, begged me to start blogging again.  So here I am.  You should check out her blog:  martinezmayhem12.blogspot.com

Since moving to Colorado I've started doing Weight Watchers.  I bought a scale after my husband and I moved into the rent house.  I almost passed out when I saw the number on the dial 176! Don't tell anyone!  I thought about doing SBD again, but it was too easy for me to cheat and too hard to keep track of for me.  The food was yummy, but it was hard to hold myself accountable.  One of my cousins recommended Weight Watchers to me over Thanksgiving.  She lost 20 lbs doing it and she said that I could do the plan entirely on my I Phone!  This caught my interest!

So on Tuesday, January 1, 2013, I signed up.  Sister needs to be down to 145 by August so she doesn't look like a beached whale in her cousin's wedding!  So far I have lost 8 lbs in 3 weeks!  For those of you not familiar with Weight Watchers let me tell you a little bit about the program.

• Every day you get a certain number of points to eat.  Currently my number is 27.  Every food has a point value.  As soon as I sit down to eat, I get on my I Phone and record what I'm eating.  The app automatically calculates the point values!  Points do not roll over so its eat em or lose em.
• You also get a set number of extra points for the week.  Mine is 49.  Weight Watchers realizes that you're not going to eat perfect everyday and they account for it with these extra points.  After you go through your daily points, you start to use these.  
• Exercise can earn you activity points.  You get to use these points after you've used all the extra points you started the week with.

I am really liking the program so far.  I am eating the same foods, with a few differences, as I did when I was doing SBD, but its easier to stay on track and be accountable to myself.  There's no excuse for not putting down the food I eat as I eat it because I can do it easily on my phone.  I also like that nothing is off limits, you just have to make sure that its all with moderation.  I typically try to stay within my daily point values so that on the weekends I can splurge when I go out with my hubby!

I am really getting into a habit with my meals.  For breakfast I have oatmeal.  For lunch I was eating either a salad with lunch meat and baby bel cheese, or just lunch meat and fruit.  Yesterday I made an awesome discovery, Progresso Light Soups.  Each can is only 5 points!  Yesterday I tried the potato, it was divine for diet soup!  Then for dinner I make a big salad and I've been experimenting with different Weight Watcher recipes.  The serving sizes are small, but both the hubs and I feel full after eating the salad with our meal.

Weight Watchers has a great app online that lets you enter your own recipes into the computer and see how many points they are.  Chicken soup came out real well at 4 points a bowl.  Spaghetti Squash toss, not so much at 5 points a serving.  So for now, I'm trying to stick with their recipes.

For exercise I either do yoga for 30+ minutes a day, or I go for a walk at Target.  I have a route, and 60 minutes earns me 5 activity points!  I can earn even more if I'm pushing a cart full of groceries.

I'm glad to be back and look forward to blogging again soon!