Friday Weigh-In

It’s Friday, so I weighed in today (even though I’ve been weighing myself nearly every day since I ‘piled on the pounds’ after last weekend!) But today is the day that counts. I’m happy to say I’ve lost the 3lb I gained since last Friday morning, but it means the scale is exactly as it was last Friday morning! I didn’t lose any. Can’t complain at that, I really shouldn’t go so overboard over the weekends, if I expect to see any loss. Maintaining is good too I guess (well not really, cos I’d still like to lose about 5lbs).

So, here’s the weekend again, but I’m determined to watch what I eat and try to still count my points too if I can. 

Here’s a few pics of what I’ve been eating this week… still forgetting to take pics of every meal, but ‘a few pics’ are better than ‘no pics at all’ !

Breakfast on Wednesday, All bran and banana with Almond Breeze milk. For lunch, tuna on a sandwich thin, and a cup of tomato soup.

Another breakfast, bagel thin, scrambled egg and blackberries!

I REALLY hope I can be good this weekend. Wish me luck!!!

I did good, then not so good!

I did really well counting my points last week, but then the weekend came and ruined it!!! As usual. I got off track with exercising too :( Only did Jillian Michaels last Monday then just got busy (and had an emotional upset, which I won’t talk about here) and my heart just wasn’t in it.

I weighed in on Friday morning and was down .2lb. Not much at all but I’ll take it.  Friday I drank a few glasses of wine! Saturday I tried to be good with food, then Sunday…. Mother’s Day, and I drank Mimosa’s AND white wine most of the day!!!!!!!! Didn’t count points AT ALL! Had these . . . .

. . . . and lots of this . . . .

salmon and asparagus quiche, roasted potatoes (in butter), salad and green beans with almonds (in butter!) And it didn’t stop there! Later in the evening I popped over to my neighbor’s. She’d been to a wine tasting weekend with her mom and sis, so I had more wine, and for some unknown reason a few servings of potato salad – just cos it was there. I wasn’t hungry in the least !!!

Why can’t I be more disciplined at the weekend? Why do I cave so easily and eat ALL the wrong things? I wish I knew. On Monday morning I nearly freaked out when I got on the scale – I’d gained 3lb since Friday morning!!!  I ate really well yesterday and thankfully I’ve already lost 2lb of the 3! My aim this week is to stay on track with points AND get through the weekend counting them too.

How do you do at the weekends? Do you still count points? Is it easy or hard for you not to over-indulge? What works for you when you’re staying OP? I’d love to know.

Weigh-in Day – and proud of myself!

I last posted about my weigh-in on April 23rd (which was a Saturday, and my WI day is usually Friday). I need to get in to the habit of making a Friday post so I can look back and see my progress.  I weighed yesterday and the scale has gone up .4lb since last week.  Strange in a way because I feel like I lost rather than gained, and that is because after my WI day last week I gained about a pound and a half after having too much food and wine (for Easter). So my weight on Friday was actually a pound lighter than I weighed on Monday!!  I know, I really should stop weighing myself so much, but I can’t help it. I always want to know what ‘the damage’ is after a weekend of not tracking and drinking wine!

This weekend I am determined to stay on track and count my points, dipping in to my weeklies if I need to.  I was really proud of myself last night. I ate well all day and come the evening when I would usually throw tracking out the window and indulge in wine and cheese and have no idea how many points I’d had, I actually weighed out a piece of aged Gouda (one of my fav cheeses) 2pp, counted out 7 Triscuits. 3pp AND I measured out every glass of wine I had;-) (which was 3 by the way).  I also had some celery and carrots and measured out 2 tblsp of lite blue cheese dressing, 2pp.

I was reading Danica’s blog this morning, and look at the surprise I got . . . .

The Winner of this pretty cool Wine Tasting Kit drawn using random.org is…

#13 Denise on Tue, 26th Apr 2011 8:33 pm……Congrats Denise!  Please email me your full name, mailing address and phone number to danicasdaily at gmail.com and I will have your kit sent out ASAP. You bet I’ve already emailed Danica :-) Thanks Danica, your blog is awesome and you have the best giveaways. Here’s the goodies I get . . . .

* Stainless Steel Wine Aerator

* Rebate for a Bottle of Cavit Italian Wine

* Wine Bottle Opener and Foil Cutter

* Tasting certificate for your favorite Bertolli Frozen Meal

* Coupon for a free Bertolli Sauce

What a great way to start my weekend :-) Along with this . . .

1 egg and eggwhite scrabled, Morning star veggie sausage patty, low fat waffle, squirt of cream and strawberries…. all for just 6pp :-)

Mixin it up a bit!

OK, so I’m rethinking this 30 Day Shred thing! I’ve only done two days and I’m exhausted! I don’t want to not do it, what I think would work better for me is if I set a goal to do the Shred just 3 days a week – Mon, Wed, Fri – and on Tues and Thur use a different dvd. For one reason I don’t want to bore myself with the same 20 minute workout every day for the next 6 weeks, and another thing, my muscles are very sore after the workout so I’d like a day doing something else (probably the Leslie Sansone Walk Away The Pounds dvds) to kinda give me a ‘rest’. 

So, although a Wednesday would normally be a ‘Shred’ day, I did it yesterday so today I will do WATP for Abs :-)

I’m doing well this week sticking to my points, I hope I can continue to do that well in to the weekend.

Breakfast yesterday was 2 slices of toast(2pp), laughing cow cheese(1pp), Jenny-O extra lean turkey bacon, 3 slices (1pp) – there’s only 2 on the plate cos I’d already eaten one ;-) mushrooms and tomato (free). Total 4pp

Lunch was a ‘seaside sarnie’! My sister will know exactly what this is! When I talked on the phone to her yesterday I mentioned we had eggs left over from coloring them for Easter and that I would make a nice egg salad sandwich for lunch. She was the one that said “make the seaside sarnie!”, which I had not thought of in a very long time. A seaside sarnie (sarnie being the slang word we use in England for a sandwich) is egg and tomato mixed with Salad Cream (another English thing, but rather like Miracle Whip). I like my egg and tom sandwiches with mayo, so I used Hellmans’ Reduced Fat, 1 egg and 1 egg white and half a fresh tomato. I must say it was delicious…. took me back a few years too :-)

Yummy close-up shot for Nenna!

For dinner I finally tried my homemade stuffed shells that I’d made a couple of weeks ago and put in the freezer. I just stuffed the shells with rf ricotta cheese, 1 egg and some frozen spinach and parmesan. Then I froze them. I defrosted them yesterday and added the marinara sauce and cheese on top and baked for 30 minutes. Yummy-licious!

Not sure about the points for this but I’m guessing 8. There’s a recipe online for the same points for 3 shells but that has a meat suace, mine has no meat at all, but I’ll still say 8 rather then be under.

Had a SmartOnes Dessert after dinner – 4pp.

Did Day 2 of the Shred, AND walked over 7000 steps (that did include doing the workout, but I’m just adding it for reference).

Let’s try this again!

I’ve decided to try Jillian’s 30 Day Shred again! My first attempt was back in September of 2010. You can CLICK HERE for my first post on Sept 15, and I tried to post every day after I did the workout but  by day 10 I started missing days of the workout. By day 20 I admitted defeat and never finished the program. 

This time I’m going to aim for just Mon-Fri to do the workouts and take the weekends off (I’m usually working in the yard then, so I’m still getting some exercise!). It’s really hard (imo) and right now I have to modify some of it, especially the cardio – I am so out of breath when she does that part! Hopefully I will feel an improvement by the end of the week.

This morning my legs are aching, and usually when they feel like that after a workout I will miss doing the next day, but I’m going to push through and still do it. Like Jillian says, if you want to see results you must work hard!  Wish me luck!!!

Yesterday I had scrambled egg for breakfast with a slice of toast and a Morning Star breakfast ‘sausage’ patty. Total 5pp.

I’m trying to not eat too many frozen meals (or buy them for that matter), but I have some still in the freezer so I had a Lean Cuisine Butternut Squash Ravioli, for 7pp and some sautéed baby portabella mushrooms.   

An afternoon Latte, 2pp.

I forgot to take a pic of dinner, just a couple of ounces of roasted chicken with a side salad and steamed broccoli. Had a glass of wine with Cheryl last night, and still had two points left over which I didn’t use. Had plenty of water yesterday too (but I could still drink more, just need to start earlier in the day). It was a good day, OH! AND I walked over 9000 steps total (according to my pedometer) :-)

Friday Weigh-In

Fridays are usually my ‘at home’ weigh in day (I don’t go to WW meetings). Since hitting my goal weight a few weeks ago I’ve gone up and down by 2 or 3 pounds. This week I’m happy to say I’m a pound less than last week :-)  But the weekend as usual is really hard for me. I just never want to track points, and I think I will just start accepting that. I mean, I don’t really need to lose any more weight at this point, I just need to maintain and get in to a good exercise routine, so splurging on the weekend (not going crazy but eating the things I like in moderation) is something I should allow myself to do.

So, if I want to have a glass of wine or two with my girlfriend on a Friday night and nibble on yummy cheese and crackers, then I should be able to do so, without always worrying about not tracking the points – I just don’t know how I can track points without standing there measuring out a 1oz piece of cheese or counting out crackers?!! It’s ok doing that during the week, but I really don’t want to do that in front of people, they will just think I’m weird, or obsessed with food and weight!

Food in the past few days consisted of  . . . .

Lunch on Wednesday, half a baked potato with 1 cup of tuna (not a cup size but the little cups it comes in!) and a side of leftover mixed veggie. I added a tablespoon of light mayo to the veg! Total 6pp. Dinner on Wednesday night was 3oz grilled chicken with 1tblsp of hummus on top, salad and green beans and almonds. Total 8pp.

Breakfast on Thursday, 1 ‘alternative’ blueberry bagel. I found these in Walmart! The nice thing is they aren’t ‘skinny’ bagels, it’s as thick and dense as a normal bagel, a little smaller and only 3pp each. Topped with a tblsp of whipped cream cheese and some bananas and grapes on the side. Just 4pp.

Lunch was turkey and bacon/salad sandwich on light bread. 10 popchips and a pickle. Total 5pp.

Later in the afternoon I made another latte :-) Bought the fat free caramel sauce to drizzle on top too – I’m liking these a lot.

I went out on Thursday night to Book Club so didn’t eat dinner but had some wine and nibbles at the meeting!

Thank you Roz!

A couple of days ago I was reading Roz’s blog over at Weighting for 50’s! When I first found her blog a few months ago, I was drawn to the fact she’s like me, headed toward 50 but wanting to stay as fit and healthy as she can for when she gets there (and the many years thereafter!). I also love how she adds little animals/characters to her food shots, they always put a smile on my face.

So I was reading THIS POST from her this week where I saw her mention an Almond Milk Latte that she had made her self. I’d just been given a box of almond milk from my friend Cindy last week to try so I was intrigued and asked Roz how she had made it. She uses an espresso machine and just froths her milk like you would for cappuccino. Hmmm? An espresso machine like this perhaps?

  Believe it or not, I have one of these sitting in a box in the dining room along with other things, waiting to go to . . . . GOODWILL!!! It has sat in my cupboards for months, years actually since I bought it and I’ve used it about twice! I originally bought it because I used to have one years ago in England and loved making Cappuccinos on a weekend. I can’t believe I was about to get rid of it. After Roz emailed me about how she made her latte I resurrected Mr. Krups AND I just made this. . . . .

I’m enjoying it as I type :-) It’s good but what it needs is some caramel syrup, I think I’ll pick up some ‘sugar-free’ next time I’m at the store. THANKS ROZ, you’ve made a ‘nearly 50 yr old’ very happy :-)

This was breakfast this morning (5pp) egg and cheese sandwich on Sara Lee light bread, a banana and 5 grapes and a cuppa coffee. Right now I have a baked potato in the oven that I’ll have for lunch with tuna on top. I’m trying to plan my meals ahead of time AND take pics of them so I can put a weekly menu together for myself. I’ll share when I have them done ;)