Thursday's Thoughts

I am very impressed with the new line of microwavable soups that have come out! For example, the Healthy Choice line, 14 oz servings:
Country Vegetable - 1 point
Chicken with Rice - 1.5 pts
Old Fashioned Chicken Noodle - 2 pts

Not to mention the flavorful canned varieties!
Chicken Tortilla Style Soup - 3 pts
Roasted Chicken with Garlic - 2 pts
Vegetable Beef - 2 pts

Campbells has a line of tasty microwavable soups out as well, the Campbell's Select line.
Italian Style Wedding Soup (delish!!)- 2 pts
Savory Lentil - 2 pts
Minestrone - 1 pt
Beef with Portabello Mushrooms and Rice Soup - 1.5 pts

Wednesday's meals

Weight Control Oatmeal, 1 serving (2.5 pts)
Wendy's small chili with cheese, 1 serving (4 pts)
Wendy's reduced fat creamy ranch dressing, 0.5 serving (.5 pt)
Wendy's Caesar side salad, 1 serving (1.5 pts)
Healthy Choice soup: Country Vegetable, 1 serving (1 pt, yes, that's right, ONE point!)
Orville R, mini bags smart pop popcorn, 1 serving (1.5 pts)
Total for the day: 11 points, minus 11 points

Add back to flex points = 11 points, new flex balance= 30.5

Tuesday's meals

CFA: Grilled Chicken Sandwich (Chick Fil A) (5 pts)
CFA: Chicken soup (3 pts)
Tea, leaf, presweetened with sugar (2.5)
Breakfast Bar: Speciak K Blueberry, 1 serving (1.5 pts)
Bread, white, 2 regular slice (2.5 pts)
Peanut butter, reduced fat, 2 tablespoon (4.5 pts)
Jelly, 2 tablespoon (2 pts)
Diet Delight Snack Mix, 0.25 cup (3 pts)
Grand Total = 24 points

Flex point balance = 21.5 - 2 = new flex point balance = 19.5

Monday's meals

1 piece pumpkin pie, actually, it was a cushaw squash pie, but this squash is so strikingly similar to pumpkin (but better) I'm gonna use the pumpkin's nutritional analysis:
(7.5 pts)

1 Special K Blueberry breakfast bar: (1.5 pts)

total so far: 9 points, 13 left

oops, I forgot that I had 2 eggs (5 pts) and 2 pieces of toast (2 pts) earlier in the morning. That was after we had decided to go ot Fazolis for dinner :( So I'll be going over again today. = 7 points

Fazolis Minstrone Soup (1.5 pts); 1 Cup spaghetti with marinara sauce (2 pts); 2 breadsticks (6 pts); caesar side salad (2 pts) 1/2 pk ff honey mustard dressing (.5 pt) = 12 points

Grand total for the day = 28 points (+6 pts)

Flex point balance = 27.5 - 6 = new flex point balance = 21.6

Sunday's meals

again, post on the fly but it works!! We've been selling that candy this weekend so it's been CRAZY!!!


flour tortilla 8 inch; 1 serving (2.5 pts)
Chicken, breast, with or without bone, stewed, skin not eaten; 1 cup, cooked, diced (4.5 pts)
Cheese, Monterey 0.75 cup, shredded (8.5 pts)
Tortillas, ready-to-bake or -fry, corn, without added salt; 1.5 medium tortilla (approx 6" dia) (1.5 pts)
Coffee, made from ground, regular (0)
Half and Half creamer, 8 (3.5 pts)
BK TENDERGRILL™ Chicken Sandwich (9 pts)
Total for the day: 29.5 points

Flex point balance= 35; -7.5 = new Flex balance= 27.5

Saturday's Thoughts

This is a post I made on the WW Followers board:

"...last week we talked about urges vs cravings, the differences, how to acknowledge them, and what to do when they happen.

Well, I'm facing a MAJOR urge right now. My son is selling the World's Finest Chocolate candy bars for school. We were top in school last year selling $2175. I have 16 cases sitting in my livingroom right now! Anyone who's had these KNOW how good they are! with almonds!!

The only thing keeping me off this chocolate is thinking about the lady at the meeting last night who said she craved cut up lemons with vinegar poured over them. THAT'S a craving! ;o) She has no idea how much she's helped me by sharing that!!!"

I'll have you know, his grace is sufficient. We went to Sams today with permission to sell some of that candy. My dear son sold $400 of candy bars today, and we're going back tomorrow. I want to make special mention of this lovely lady I had the pleasure to speak with while she was waiting on her husband. I never got her name, but she wrote down the address to my blog, so if you see this and you know who you are, HELLO!!

I am exhausted, and like I said, we're going back tomorrow. 1st grade has GOT to win this year!! :)

Saturday's Meals

I'm playing catch up with this, so I'm copying from my fitday journal, if you think my recordings look funny, that's why. I know its not like I have been doing them but I'm so tired and ready for bed!!


V8 Vegetable Juice 5.5 fl oz (.5 pt)
FF Milk 1 cup (1.5 pts)
Cereal: Special K low carb 1 cup (2 pts)
CFA: Grilled Chicken Sandwich (Chick Fil A) (5 pts)
CFA: Chicken soup (3 pts)
Onion rings, from fresh, batter-dipped, baked or fried 1 large rings (3-4" dia) (.5)
Tea, leaf, presweetened with sugar (5)
40 fl oz (drank over the course of afternoon and evening, had a sweet tooth for it)
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total points: 17.5

Oops:
FF Milk 1 cup (1.5 pts)
Special K fruit and yogurt, 1 cup (3 pts) = 4.5

Total for the day: 22 points

Perfect ending!!

Friday's meals

Chicken or turkey with stuffing (mixture) (8.5 pts)
Apple, raw (1 pt)
Pizza Hut Veggie Lover Pizza Slice- 2 serving (12 pts)
Smart Ones: Chicken Marsala (4 pts)
Total points: 25.5 points (+3.5)

Last day of flex points for the week. Start new "35" on Saturday.

Thursday's Meals

Breakfast: 1 C Special K low carb (2 pts)
1 C FF milk (2 pts)
1 small banana (2 pts)
Total: 6 points

Lunch: Smart ones Ravioli Florentine (5 pts)

Dinner: 3 slices veggie lovers pizza (18 pts)

Total for the day: 29 pts (17 flex points left after that)

Wednesday's Thoughts

There was a thread on the WW board about the Biggest loser show, and the diets they were on. It was an interesting thread for me to read. It promoted me to go back to my fitday journal , where I realized I have not consumed over 1300 calories since I started journaling!! I've always been a minimal eater, hhmmmm ....

This part here makes a lot of sense to me:
"From a behavioral standpoint, even if you use fat-free margarine, salad dressing, mayonnaise, etc at home, you're still feeding the habit of adding fat to your food. When you are away from home, you're much more likely to use full-fat versions because they're likely to be the only thing available. Using these products regularly may keep your taste buds accustomed to added fat. "

I just experienced this a couple of weeks ago when I made a chicken, spinach, and mushroom soup. It was a Cooking Light recipe, and I could definitely tell there was fat missing. That was the first time I could actually put my finger on something like that in terms of taste. I told dh that I / we would definitely be relearning how to taste foods again taking out the fat!

BTW: If you visit CookingLight.com, there should be a popup upon entry that offers two free issues, following a year's subscription at 60% off the newsstand price, that's about $2 an issue!! Can't beat that!! Especially with the holiday issues coming up, I jumped on it ;o)

Wednesday's Meals

Breakfast: Weight Control Oatmeal (3 pts)

Lunch: Campbell's Select Soup- Italian Wedding (2 pts)
Side salad (2 C) = (1 pt)
1 oz feta cheese = (2 pts)
2 tbsp Light done right House Italian salad dressing = (1 pt)

Snack: small apple (1 pt)

Dinner: I made a spanish rice- chicken skillet supper tonight (omit peas), it was great! I'm not sure how to figure the points because I was not clear on the serving size, and since I omitted the peas...
I had a cup of the mixture. SO:
.33 C brown rice = (1 pt); .33 C cooked chicken (2 pts); .165 C stewed, diced tomatoes (0 pt) and .165 C roasted red peppers (0 pt) = TOTAL: 3 pts per cup? Can that be right? Too good to be true!!

I'm going to have some soup from last night in a little bit, when the kids go to bed. That will be 3 pts. So after the soup my day's total will be: 16 points! :-O I guess I can splurge tonight!! I'm gonna post some thoughts later. Right now Hannah is calling me from the tub and Jackson is under foot looking for his rocket launcher.....

Fudge Pop: 1 pt (17 total...)

Snack: 1 C Special K Fruit & Yogurt Cereal (3 pts)
.5 C milk (1 pt)

Grand Total for the Day: 21 points

Tuesday's Foods

Breakfast:
1 McD Breakfast Burrito (7 pts)
8 oz coffee, 5 creamers (2 pts)
Total: 9 pts

and the GOOD thing is, I checked the nutritional analysis before I ate! I had bought two burritos, but have decided I'll just save the other for lunch, LOL!!

Dinner:
Steak wraps:
3 oz flank steak (4 pts)
flat out flat bread, whole wheat (3 pts)
lettuce and tomato (free)
2 tbsp reduced fat ranch dressing (homemade) - (1 pt)

Chickpea and Potato soup: (3 pts)
Total: 11 pts

So far for the day: 20 points

So far so good, huh? I mean, I have 2 more points to go!

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Awww maaannnn!

I am definitely having a week of trial and error! I got wise and started pulling up the fast food nutrition info directly from their websites. It appears my fast food journeys are going to need to be planned from now on. Maybe I'll make up a 'fast food book' of 'allowed' foods. Cause I mean really, convenience is good, but I don't want to continually live in "that was good, but not worth the points" land!!

I just had a huge shock to the system. I'm a creamer gal. I've got to have some coffee with my cream and artificial sweetner. Come to find out I put 3 pts worth of cream in my large McDonalds coffee!! Uhg!! and an egg McMuffin is SIX points!

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Today's Eating

Breakfast: Egg McMuffin (6 pts)
large coffee with 8 cream (3 pts)
9 pts = balance = 13 pts for the rest of the day!!

Predicted lunch: salad ;o)
Later: Yes, I had a house salad (2 pts) for lunch, as well as a cup of green beans (1 pt), and a pork chop (5 pts), lean only eaten, 3 oz apprx.
Total: 8 pts

Dinner: Wendy's spring mix salad (4 pts) with reduced fat creamy ranch dressing (1 pt), 3 oz chicken strips (3 pts)
Total: 8 points

Total for the day: 25 points

UhG. Well, I done well overall. I mean, I did have 3.9 points left over from yesterday, so, if we want to get technical, I was over 3 points today (oops, I forgot my hot chocolate as dessert!) ... so lets say I have .9 points before going into my flex points for the day:

"Dessert"- 1.33 C hot chocolate = using Nestle fat free mix, 1% lowfat milk (I go fat free tomorrow)... well, we'll say 3 pts because the mix was fat free and sugar free, I just can't find the nutrition information on nestle's website, and I've thrown the box away!!

Okay, so, I have went 2.1 pts into my flex points for the day. I am now 10.1 pts into my flex points for the week, which gives me 24.9 pts to work with for the next three days ... hmmm, well, I started counting on Saturday, right? Lets see ... I'm going to work towards the weekend, so my week's end would be- Friday, seven days. So I have 24.9 pts for the next four days = 6.225 pts a day ;o)

Day2, not much better

Boy I've blown it today!! I knew we would be going out to eat Mexican after church today so I skipped breakfast. Usually we eat less after church because of the big meal. I'm leaning!! Today's meal was 16.1 points the best we can figure. I have apprx 6 left, and it's 3pm ;o) Yep, I'm learning my lessons all right!!

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Today's eating:

Breakfast: none

Lunch: 1 8" chicken and cheese quesedilla, 11.6 pts
tortilla chips, 18 chips, 4.5 pts
sweet tea, 3 C- 2 pts
= 16.1 points

Dinner: I was going to have a side salad, but the Wendy's drive thru gave me regular ranch instead of reduced ranch. Luckily, I had went ahead and got some apple slices from McDonalds when I got the kid's food. So I had 12 apple slices for dinner last night ;o) According to the nutrition info from fitday, that was 2 pts. That seems about right.

So that left me at 18.1 points for the day.

Second post

testing something

My First Day on WW

Getting to know how to use this setup! I decided to starta separate blog for my weight loss journaling. I have to admit I thought Carson, Kris, and A's blogs had cool features and this was a prime excuse to try this site, too (LOL)

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"Today's Eating"-

Breakfast: 3/4 C 1% milk
1.5 C Special K low carb cereal
2 tbsp sliced almonds
3 pts (6 pts) * and see? Having a blog has already paid off. a buddy at the WW board pointed out I was wrong on my breakfast points, and they're really 6 instead of 3! I knew that this morning, why I wrote three down tonight I dunno. Wow, so that makes me ending the day at 30 :-O

Lunch:
1 slice Pizza Hut Veggie Lover's Pizza
6 pts

Dinner:
Wendy's Chicken BLT Salad
Garlic croutons
honey Mustard Dressing
18 pts (YIKES!!)

Days total: 30 (+8)- that would be the dressing and croutons that done me in!!

Didn't do so good today!! It's not even 8pm and I have already reached 27 pts for the day, and my daily target is 22! In other words I have used my extra 5 points eating a salad I didn't enjoy very well- UhG! Do I ever have a lot to learn ....