Just Do It!

That’s my motto this week when it comes to exercising!! Too many times I find an excuse not to get active. It’s not even that cold outside this week but I still put off going for a walk. No more! This week I’m telling myself to ‘just do it’! And so far that’s what I’ve done.  Well, not the walking outside part.

On Sunday I actually did the 20 minute body toning workout on my Reebok bench. Yesterday I did the Leslie Sansone Walk Away The Pounds 2 mile walk :-) And today, I did the weights again – that’s 3 days in a row! I must admit I’m rather pleased with myself.

Last night I had ‘white chicken chili’ for dinner. The recipe came from the Bush’s can of Northern Beans. I won’t be making it again :-/ Hubby didn’t like it much and although the taste was ok to  me, the texture was not – rather ‘slimey’ for want of a better word! I discovered ‘Baked Tostitos’ this week after reading Marisa’s blog. Well I know about baked chips and I have tried some, but not these. They are 3pp for 14 chips. The chili was 5pp for a cup.

I tried something new for breakfast today – dark chocolate oatmeal! It looks a lot better on the box! I made mine with 1/2 cup of ff milk so I could get some dairy in! If I don’t have cereal I only get it from a greek yogurt, and I don’t have one of those every day. This was ok, kinda chewy, but I think I can get used to that. 4pp for 1 serving. I had a banana too, a few slices on top.

I just discovered Flat Out wraps this week too. Only 2pp each!

This is Hungry Girl’s Crispy White Pizza. I saw it on her first tv show last week and this is the third one I’ve made :) Love it! She actually used a whole wheat tortilla but this works just as good. Total is just 4pp (2pp for the ff ricotta cheese, onions and tomatoes 0pp).

Dinner tonight (for me, I made hubby enchiladas) cos I just HAD to try Marisa’s Black Bean Chili Dip. Total about 12pp. 8 for the dip, 3 for the brown rice and I have only 4 chips there, barely a point!

Kristen’s friend called over tonight selling Girl Scout Cookies! First thing I do is check the points :) Thin Mint 1pp, Lemonades 2pp! I had to have one of each :-/

Weigh In Day

Monday is my weigh in day.  I wasn’t expecting a loss this week (sometimes you can just tell!) and I was right, in fact I went up just slightly by .2lb!!

Oh well, not gonna beat myself up about that. It just proves to me that it’s not all diet alone that will make me lose weight, I need to get active too. Yesterday I did a 20 minute workout on my trusty Reebok bench. Actually, hubby wanted to buy this a couple of years ago, but I don’t think he’s ever used it! I found the dvd for it last week so I’m starting to do the 20 minute full body toning workout. Hopefully I can do it every other day and on alternate days I’ll do my Walk Away The Pounds dvds.

Breakfast this morning was 2 Nutrigrain waffles with 1 tbsp Better than PB – 5pp

Then off I headed to the store. Got groceries in, came home, put them all away and was ready for lunch at 11.3oam!

A can of Campbell’s ‘Soup to Go’ for just 3pp and a salad wrap using 1 tbsp low fat mayo, salad fixins and a Flatout wrap 2pp.

Dinner tonight will be White Chicken Chili. I got the recipe from a can of Bush’s beans. I plugged the recipe in to the recipe tracker at ww online and it’s only 5pp per cup! I’ll post a pic later tonight.

By the end of this week I will have been on WW for 4 weeks. I think I will take measurements again at the weekend and see if I can see any difference!

It’s the weekend

I want to start posting in here on a more regular basis (not sure how long it will last) and even post pictures of my meals if I can. I’ve been taking photos over the past couple of days . . . now it’s just a matter of putting them on to the computer and adding them to my posts!

I’ve done well this week other than Thursday! Thursday was our book club monthly meeting. I hosted at my house and put nibbles out like cheese and crackers, carrots, dip, fruit and a few mini profiteroles to name a few.  I skipped dinner, didn’t really nibble on that much BUT I had 3 glasses of wine. Usually I’d think that wasn’t too bad, I mean I have the points for times like this but I never can tell how many points I used when I snacked on the cheese etc.  I just put it down to a ‘not so good day’ and get back on the wagon the next day. 

In future though I should still try to gauge what points I’ve used when I eat things.  And drinking the wine wasn’t such a great idea… I honestly think I’m becoming seriously allergic to wine. It may be the sulphites  in it. After the first glass I started to get really stuffy in my nose, and I couldn’t taste anything. Why I bothered to have the other two I just don’t know! I’ve always enjoyed a glass of wine and lately a cocktail now and then, but I’ve not been drinking during the week and I think having 3 glasses all together just made me realize how ‘stuffed up’ I can get when drinking it. Anyway, that’s not to say I won’t ever drink wine again, it just wasn’t much fun this week.

This is one of the breakfasts I’ve had this week, actually I’ve had a few mornings start like this. Either two Eggo Multigrain low fat waffles with Better N’ Peanut Butter spread and lots of fruit (total 5pp), or just one waffle and pb, and a scrambled egg with fruit(still 5pp).  Other mornings I’ll have eggs and turkey bacon but I haven’t take a picture of that yet!

I started this post earlier and have since downloaded some of my pics from the camera. Here’s the breakfast I had yesterday along with my coffee, (I have International Delight creamer in my coffee, I just can’t drink it black, so there’s always two pp’s counted for 2 coffees). . .

I watched Hungry Girl on tv for the first time last week. She was making pizzas. She made one with Ricotta cheese, it looked so good I had to try it.  You can CLICK HERE for the recipe from her site.

Instead of the tortilla she used, I used a ‘Flatout’ light wrap, only 2pp.  Total (pointsplus) for this whole pizza is 5pp, this inc. 1 tsp of olive oil drizzled on top for 1pp.

I made this on Thursday for lunch, it was delicious. I loved it so much I made another one last night for my dinner.

This is a turkey and turkey bacon wrap I had for lunch today, with some cherry tomatoes. I’ve had popcorn for a snack this afternoon  - doing good!

New PointsPlus

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I thought I'd make a quick entry (I do want to get back to posting here regularly, but that will have to be later this week) to say that I'm doing WW again. Their points system totally changed back in November, so all the books I'd bought and the calculator I had last year was, to put it bluntly 'rubbish'! The cookbooks are ok because you can still recalculate the points but everything else is now obsolete. I did order a new calculator from WW, AND I joined their 'online' program. It hopefully will keep me accountable as I try to lose the 13lb I've gained since last summer! And I won't quit til I do it!! And once I've done it, I hopefully will keep it off this time. Seriously . . . . 13lb!!!!! What was I thinking?

So, since the week after Christmas I've been eating a lot more fruit and veg and I've been tracking my points since Jan 1st. So far I'm down about 4lb from what I was over Christmas, which is good. I hope to keep myself motivated by using WW online, their message boards (I joined a group of knitters on there) :) and blogging here about my progress.

Later I'll post more about what I've been eating, but right now I need to go put away laundry!

I didn’t make it….

It’s time to admit defeat :-(  I didn’t complete the 30 day Shred, in fact I haven’t touched it since I came back from my weekend away!

It is what it is!  I just can’t keep myself motivated when it comes to exercise. That’s not to say I’ve given up completely. The past couple of weeks I’ve just been eating and drinking what I want again, and my weight (and well being) is suffering for it.  I went out last night with my friend Cheryl and her sister. Cheryl was treating me to dinner for my birthday. We went to a little Italian Market restaurant and I once again ate Waaaaay too much food. First we had Mushroom Bruschetta with truffel oil which was to die for, then I had a pizza. Granted the crust was very very thin, and it had basil pesto, grilled ribbons of carrot and goat cheese on and mushrooms, but I just ate too much of it, and had a couple of glasses of wine too. Cheryl took our picture with her phone and I couldn’t help but think that my face looked so fat! That was it . . .

Today I start again, to make a concerted effort to eat less, eat better and get out and walk again. I got on the scale last night (just for the record I’ll mention this) and was 130lb! This morning I was 127.8

I went out for a walk this morning for 30 minutes around the neighborhood. I’m going to count my points again and use WW to help me eat better and less.

We’ll see how it goes.

Day 20

So Saturday was day 18 and Sunday day 19 and didn’t do the workout as I mentioned because I was doing yard work instead. Yesterday I didn’t even do the yard work! I was awake a lot on Saturday night when my throat started to hurt. It wasn’t a scratchy kind of sore throat but just hurt on one side when I swallowed and it was making my ear ache a bit too. When I got up on Sunday morning my head and face were aching a lot too. I took some Ibruprofen and Sudafed and after a couple of hours felt a little better, but I just didn’t feel up to working out be it in the yard or with the dvd.

I went to bed last night at 8pm I was so tired and my head was aching again. Today I don’t feel so bad, still took the Sudafed and the Ibuprofen this morning for the face/headache but I felt well enough to do the workout.

I can’t say I’m noticing any changes to my body though, and if I’m honest I’m really not putting as much effort in to it as I probably should. After this many days I really feel more worn out than better for it. I can’t wait to have this over with!!

Day 15, 16 and 17!!!

Wednesday was day 15 and I must confess I didn't do the workout. I had to go for my yearly well-woman appointment at the Dr's and then I ran errands so by the time I got home it was lunch time, and well, I just kept putting off, did laundry etc and then it was bedtime :-(

It's getting really hard to stay motivated doing this I must admit. I did the workout on Thurday before 8am even and then again yesterday. But it's the weekend and guess what . . . I'm not gonna do the dvd! I'll be working out in the back yard instead. It's like a jungle out there in the veggie beds and now that the mornings are cooling down I can get out there and start pulling weeds (and old rotten veg!) outta there! That will be my workouts for Saturday and Sunday.