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
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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.
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. :)
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. :)
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Hair
I got my hair done today and my eyebrows waxed for the first time since........eeekk can't believe I'm going to admit this.....since my wedding....in November. Ok true a few people might know I got my hair cut once since then but at a totally random little place near our home in Houston just because it was ridiculously long. But, since my wedding I have not had my highlights done or had a truly professional good hair cut and layering. I don't know why I waited. Fear of a finding a new stylist? Lazy? Wanting to save money?
I thought my eyebrows looked fine, no stray hairs, but boy was I wrong when I had them done! Whew such a difference! Love love, Facelogic. I've gone to Facelogic in Waco, Dallas and now Houston for my eyebrows exclusively for 6 years now and I've been so pleased with the results and atmosphere. If you don't like my eyebrows then don't go there! haha! I love them. My grandma Dixie always had a thing about keeping natural looking, thicker eyebrows and I guess it stuck with me. Something she used to say about being in a car wreck and they'd shave off your eyebrows and they wouldn't grow back so keep them nice and thick...I dunno doesn't make much sense but when I think about my eyebrows I hear her voice. Ok that's neither here nor there, I look better today end of story. :)
Then the hair...trivial all this beauty stuff is I know, but it really makes you feel so much better when everything is fresh. I sucked it up and went to a really nice salon in Houston called Traci Scott. I went to the stylist, Cion. He is originally from Hobbs, New Mexico where my college roommate Maggie is from! Small world. He is the nicest and most experienced guy. I didn't think I'd find anyone as good as Casie in Waco, but he has put my fears to ease and is just as good. Can't say better because Casie is just soooo wonderful, but I'm thrilled to find someone not 3 hours away!
Today my hair is a little shorter, and a little lighter, but we toned down the blondeness of the highlights so its more....honey golden...? with a slightly auburn color? and with some darker low lights. Mabye not auburn....I don't know I haven't looked at it enough but its different.
Ah breath of fresh air. Almost didn't make it to my appointment because work was so crazy, but ya know...sometimes you just have to literally say, is this so important that I can't do it later? So I got away and now look refreshed!
I thought my eyebrows looked fine, no stray hairs, but boy was I wrong when I had them done! Whew such a difference! Love love, Facelogic. I've gone to Facelogic in Waco, Dallas and now Houston for my eyebrows exclusively for 6 years now and I've been so pleased with the results and atmosphere. If you don't like my eyebrows then don't go there! haha! I love them. My grandma Dixie always had a thing about keeping natural looking, thicker eyebrows and I guess it stuck with me. Something she used to say about being in a car wreck and they'd shave off your eyebrows and they wouldn't grow back so keep them nice and thick...I dunno doesn't make much sense but when I think about my eyebrows I hear her voice. Ok that's neither here nor there, I look better today end of story. :)
Then the hair...trivial all this beauty stuff is I know, but it really makes you feel so much better when everything is fresh. I sucked it up and went to a really nice salon in Houston called Traci Scott. I went to the stylist, Cion. He is originally from Hobbs, New Mexico where my college roommate Maggie is from! Small world. He is the nicest and most experienced guy. I didn't think I'd find anyone as good as Casie in Waco, but he has put my fears to ease and is just as good. Can't say better because Casie is just soooo wonderful, but I'm thrilled to find someone not 3 hours away!
Today my hair is a little shorter, and a little lighter, but we toned down the blondeness of the highlights so its more....honey golden...? with a slightly auburn color? and with some darker low lights. Mabye not auburn....I don't know I haven't looked at it enough but its different.
Ah breath of fresh air. Almost didn't make it to my appointment because work was so crazy, but ya know...sometimes you just have to literally say, is this so important that I can't do it later? So I got away and now look refreshed!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Happy Birthday Jonathan!!
This was Hubby's birthday week! He turned 25 last Saturday, June 12! I think I sang happy birthday to him 3 times, maybe 4, and had 3 cakes and he still has a big joint birthday bash this weekend with our dear friends David and Bill, whose birthday's are all within a week.
We went to the lake where Jonathan went fishing first thing Saturday morning, caught 2 fish, then we went golfing with his dad and his sister and new brother-in-law. All before noon...totally Jonathan's idea of a great birthday! Then we were out of the boat with Jonathan wakeboarding and tubing all afternoon followed by all of the Theilig/Pavlic extended family coming over to the lakehouse to celebrate recent family birthdays!
We celebrated Aunt Frances, Uncle Lynn, and Jonathan's birthdays. It was such a joy to be with his whole family. Now its off to Dallas to continue celebarating this weekend!
Love you Jonathan! Happy 25th!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
What my Husband Did
So what did my husband do that was so wonderful?
We went ahead and gave it to him the next time we saw my parent's because Jonathan just couldn't wait. Well I couldn't either!
When my dad opened it, he was shocked. It was so fun! He asked if Jonathan had to tell them his father-in-law had cancer to get this!
Dad said this he doesn't know if Jonathan can ever top this gift, and didn't expect such a great gift so early. Mom kept saying how she wanted to get Dad an elite 8 T shirt but we thought this was a better memento of the season. :)
Without my knowledge, he contacted the Baylor University Men's Basketball program and through a series of connections, emails, and phone calls, got a basketball autographed by the entire NCAA elite 8 season team....wait for it...for my Dad for father's day!!!
We went ahead and gave it to him the next time we saw my parent's because Jonathan just couldn't wait. Well I couldn't either!
He just decided that this would be the best gift for my dad and was so excited about it that he didn't even tell me until he had confirmation that it was in the mail.
He even had thought enough to ask for the basketball before the school year was up so that Ekpe Udoh got to sign it before leaving for the Pro's, Tweety Carter signed it before graduation, and of course Scott Drew signed it front and center!! I mean everyone's signature is on this ball. 
When my dad opened it, he was shocked. It was so fun! He asked if Jonathan had to tell them his father-in-law had cancer to get this!
Dad said this he doesn't know if Jonathan can ever top this gift, and didn't expect such a great gift so early. Mom kept saying how she wanted to get Dad an elite 8 T shirt but we thought this was a better memento of the season. :)
Jonathan has always been good at surprises, but this one ranks pretty high up there. I love you Jonathan and thank you for being so thoughtful of the people I love most!
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Sick :(
I'm sick....so for my memorial day weekend post, see Stephanie's blog. :)
I don't feel like doing all the pictures and everything. It was a much needed awesome break with great friends after a stressful work week and other things. I think I let down so much that my immune system just broke down after all the stress and now I'm just ugh. But I got great meds and am finally beginning to feel better.
I can finally tell you about the wonderful thing my husband did, but that will have to wait until tomorrow as I'm just too tired to do it now and am about to take my cough syrup with codeine. :) Nightnight!
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