Friday, July 30, 2010

Is it weird to write down what you eat?

I kind of had a thought today that its weird to write down what I eat. I don't know that I would want to read what everyone else eats...hmmm not sure about this journal anymore. Might just write down point numbers per day instead...we'll see.

Tonight we went to the Astros game and got to sit Diamond Level! It was amazing and we'll be doing it every day this weekend! Woohoo!

Sad news about Lance Berkman leaving for the yankees supposedly though. Pics of the weekend will be up later, or if you're friends with my mom on facebook, they'll likely be up soon! :)

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Thursday - My 3rd favorite day of the week!

Breakfast:

0 - Coffee with Soymilk and splenda with fiber (sidenote, this is a great way to have your morning coffee with flavor and no points! I only had 1/2 cup or less of light silk soymilk for 45 calories, and with 2 grams of fiber from 2 splenda with fiber packets and the fiber already in the milk, its free!)

2 - Fiber One Bar (Oats with Strawberries and Almonds kind...first time to try it...oh so good!)

Lunch:

1 - Miso Soup
1- Edamame
3 - salmon, tuna, and shrimp sushi

Dinner:

10- Campbell's Sausage, Beef, and Bean Skillet Recipe
2 - Graham Cracker and Peanut Butter

Total: 19

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Mid Week

Found this website today: http://www.skinnytaste.com/

Definitely will be using some of these recipes!

Breakfast:

1 - Coffee with FF Coffeemate (FF stands for Fat Free, in case you wonder)
2- Honey Nut Cheerios

Lunch:
4 - Smart Ones Turkey and Mashed Potatoes with Gravy

Dinner:
15 - Boneless honey BBQ Wings (ouch I know but they were Sooooo good!)
2 - 10 Saltine Crackers
1 - MGD 64 (pretty good for just one point!)

Total: 25

Flex points:31
- 7
24 left

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

New Daily Post

I've decided on a whim, after working out today, weighing myself and seeing that I've gained 4.5 pounds since February, that the thing I need to get back to doing for weight loss and then maintenance, is writing down what I eat. Plus I just read an article on CNN that talks about the importance of this very thing.



My background in or history with weightloss so to speak, is Weight Watchers, which I did with my mom in high school and I went from a size 10 as a 5 foot girl, down to a size 2-4 at my smallest. I'm hovering around a 6 right now and things are getting tighter. In weight watchers we are told to keep a daily journal of food. My mom does this pretty religiously, which I think is why she such a great figure so many years after starting. I on the other hand am I bit more carefree and have a hard time sticking to habits.



I'm working out, so the issue has got to be what I'm eating. I'm a stress eater, and I've recently developed a love for cooking. About half the recipes in our house are Weight Watchers recipes, and the other half are from things like the Pioneer Woman. Full of buttery goodness. I think its good to know how to cook like that, but I need to scale back my intake, its all about portion control and I haven't been actually figuring out how much a serving of my recipes is recently.



Thus, I'm going to start a daily food journal on my blog.



I'm going to do the journal in weight watcher points, so if you're interested in that or even need to lose weight, I HIGHLY recommend weight watchers. For the money you pay going to meetings to learn the system, you will be so pleased with the results and lifestyle it brings. Despite my little recent weight gain I've not gone above my size 6 since high school so that says something.



Plus I'd like to lose about 5 pounds or so by our Mexico vacation. So I have about 3.5 weeks til then. Healthy weight loss I think is between even 1/2 lb. to 3-4 lbs. per week. 3-4 being much more rare the closer you are to your goal weight. Anywho...



We'll see how this goes:

My daily point range for my weight and age is to have 18 points per day, and then I have 35 flex points to use throughout the week.



Tuesday:

1 -Coffee with coffeemate

2- Honeynut Cheerios

1- Light soy milk

5- Turkey 6 in. Subway Sandwich with Cheese and FF dressing

2- Yogurt
4- Crockpot Beef Short Ribs (I only ate 2, not he best meal choice for first day of this :)
3- Mashed Potatoes
1- Sauteed Spinach
2- Cottage Cheese
1- Bite of Cheesecake pudding pie

Daily Total = 22 points.

35 flex points
- 4 used
31 flex points left.

Things I'm loving Tuesday

I know most blogs do things I'm loving Thursday, but things are a bit stressful at work this morning so I'm going to take 5 minutes and write things I'm loving Tuesday to get in a positive mindset. :)

1. Bethenny Getting Married show on Bravo. Love it. Love it. She's so funny and I love her and Jason's relationship!

2. My family is coming in town Friday!! Yay! My brother gets to stay with Dub and me, and we are going to all three Astros games this weekend in some pretty nice seats!

3. My hubby made me laugh so hard yesterday, for like hours, and he cleaned quite a bit around the house before I got home as I had to work late last night.

4. Self tanner. After putting some on this week I instantly feel more like its summer. (despite the constant rain this week)

5. Inception. It was a great movie! Went Sunday night to Studio Movie Grill to see it. That's another thing I love, Studio movie grill. Who likes to see movies without food anymore?

6. Cooking. Dub and I cook a lot. This morning I put short ribs in the crockpot and hopefully tonight they'll live up to their name of "melt in your mouth"!

7.Vacation. I'm going on vacation for a couple days at home with my parents next week, and then in less than a month leaving for Playa Del Carmen for a whole week, all inclusive vacation with friends and Dub!

oh I could go on! Ok things seem much brighter now around here. Time to work. :)