Day 2 went very well. I did wake up a little hungry, but I figured that would happen given I didn't eat much the day before. I was able to handle it well with a nice dish of Steel Cut Oats for breakfast. I'll share that recipe in a little bit. I felt good about my decision to go down this path again. I felt strong that I was finally trying to do something about my weight. Great motivation, may it continue!
What I ate:
Breakfast
Steel Cut Oatmeal
Cup of cheap-o Chai Tea (I make my own with 1 cup of skim milk, 1 cup of water and steep)
Banana
Lunch:
WW Cheese burger Mini
Cheddar Mini Rice Cakes
Cantaloupe
SF Jell-O snack
Snack:
Fage 0% Greek Yogurt
1/2 cup Kashi Go Lean Crunch
Raspberries
SF Jell-O Pudding Snack
Dinner:
Mesquite-Lime marinated Chicken Breast
Salad - w/carrots, a very small amount of shredded cheese and FF Kraft Catalina
Strawberries and Blueberries - YUMMY! So sweet right now!
Milk
Snack:
Skinny Cow Chocolate Cone
I was very full after my afternoon snack. I could have done without the chocolate pudding. But I felt very satisfied all day long.
My Version of Steel Cut Oats - This is a combination of several recipes I've found:
1 cup steel cut oats
4 1/2 cups of water
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. vanilla
2 TBSP brown sugar
1/2 cup dried fruit (my favorite is blueberries or a mixed berry variety)
Instructions:
Spray the inside of your crock-pot with Pam. Dump all the ingredients in, stir. Cook on Med. over night. Mine usually cooks around 8 or 9 hours.
When I eat it I do add a couple of TBSPs of skim milk and a little Splenda if you want it sweeter.
Enjoy!
Friday, August 26, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
I've had it!
I must confess, I fell off the wagon and gained any weight I had lost back on. I've not felt well off and on for the last month and knew it was time. I need to do something about my weight.
So, I joined Weight Watchers online again! I'll post my "Before" photo later. But here is my journal of day #1:
I didn't eat all of my points today. I felt awful, which is what prompted me to join in the first place.
What did I eat today:
Breakfast:
2 - Schwan's apple biscuits
Sunkist Orange Pop - Don't ask!
Lunch:
Light Yoplait Lemon Yogurt
Nectarine
Dinner:
Hot Dog with Bun
Watermelon
Milk
Snack:
Skinny Cow Mint Ice Cream Sandwich
I didn't feel hungry all day, partly because of how I felt. I did not drink my water for today. I took a before photo and measurements to compare to as I go through this journey yet again. All in all a good first day!
So, I joined Weight Watchers online again! I'll post my "Before" photo later. But here is my journal of day #1:
I didn't eat all of my points today. I felt awful, which is what prompted me to join in the first place.
What did I eat today:
Breakfast:
2 - Schwan's apple biscuits
Sunkist Orange Pop - Don't ask!
Lunch:
Light Yoplait Lemon Yogurt
Nectarine
Dinner:
Hot Dog with Bun
Watermelon
Milk
Snack:
Skinny Cow Mint Ice Cream Sandwich
I didn't feel hungry all day, partly because of how I felt. I did not drink my water for today. I took a before photo and measurements to compare to as I go through this journey yet again. All in all a good first day!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Chocolate!
One of my problems is my sweet tooth. It's huge! I love sweets! I got this recipe at a WW meeting years ago. I love it, they make a great breakfast! Tiny Dancer calls them "Poop Muffins", you'll see why:
3 cups Original All Bran Cereal
2 1/2 cups water
LF Brownie Mix
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
Soak All Bran in water for 5 minutes. Mix in the Brownie Mix and Baking Powder. Scoop into 24 Muffins. Make for about 15 minutes.
Yummy! Sweet, kind of gooey, filling, and yes, Tiny Dancer, full of bran, which can do things to your intestinal track, so be careful with these!
3 cups Original All Bran Cereal
2 1/2 cups water
LF Brownie Mix
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
Soak All Bran in water for 5 minutes. Mix in the Brownie Mix and Baking Powder. Scoop into 24 Muffins. Make for about 15 minutes.
Yummy! Sweet, kind of gooey, filling, and yes, Tiny Dancer, full of bran, which can do things to your intestinal track, so be careful with these!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Diet Pop Cake
As I mentioned on Monday, I made a few of my favorite snack/dessert recipes this weekend. Some probably call this Diet Soda Cake, but where I live it's Pop, not Soda!
This could not be easier!
One Cake Mix - any flavor, I used a Reduced Sugar Yellow this time
One can of Diet Pop - find a flavor that goes well with the cake your chose, I used Diet Sunkist.
Two egg ehites
Mix is up and bake it according to the package directions.
You can mix so many different flavors, it's almost endless. Next time I make it I'm going to use a Reduced Sugar Devil's Food and either Diet Dr. Pepper or Diet A&W, it will depend on which I have on hand, but I think either would work great. Oh, or Cherry Coke Zero!
This is a list of other possible combinations I pulled off of the Weight Watcher Boards:
- spice cake mix w/ diet orange
- Banana cake mix w/ diet root beer
- lemon cake mix w/ diet 7-up
- Chocolate cake w/ Diet coke
- Lemon cake w/ Diet ginger ale
- orange cake w/diet Mountain Dew
- cherry chip cake w/ A& W diet Cream
- Lemon cake w/ Diet Lemon lime
- angel w/ Diet Orange
- White w/ Diet Orange
- yellow cake w/ Diet orange
- white cake w/ Diet Peach
- spice cake w/ diet lemon-lime
- White w/ diet ginger ale
- chocolate cake w/ Diet cherry coke
- devils food w/ diet vanilla coke
- chocolate cake w/ rootbeer
- marble cake w/ diet cream soda
- lemon with tangerine diet rite
- white cake mix w/ diet sprite
- Red Velvet w/ Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper
- Banana cake w/ diet root beer
- Pineapple cake w/ diet Squirt
I personally don't frost mine or I just use some FF Cool Whip if I want something on it. I really just like cake! If you do want some frosting you can add one box of SF Instand Pudding (just the dry mix) to 8 oz. FF Cool Whip.
I have another yummy sweet recipe for tomorrow!
This could not be easier!
One Cake Mix - any flavor, I used a Reduced Sugar Yellow this time
One can of Diet Pop - find a flavor that goes well with the cake your chose, I used Diet Sunkist.
Two egg ehites
Mix is up and bake it according to the package directions.
You can mix so many different flavors, it's almost endless. Next time I make it I'm going to use a Reduced Sugar Devil's Food and either Diet Dr. Pepper or Diet A&W, it will depend on which I have on hand, but I think either would work great. Oh, or Cherry Coke Zero!
This is a list of other possible combinations I pulled off of the Weight Watcher Boards:
- spice cake mix w/ diet orange
- Banana cake mix w/ diet root beer
- lemon cake mix w/ diet 7-up
- Chocolate cake w/ Diet coke
- Lemon cake w/ Diet ginger ale
- orange cake w/diet Mountain Dew
- cherry chip cake w/ A& W diet Cream
- Lemon cake w/ Diet Lemon lime
- angel w/ Diet Orange
- White w/ Diet Orange
- yellow cake w/ Diet orange
- white cake w/ Diet Peach
- spice cake w/ diet lemon-lime
- White w/ diet ginger ale
- chocolate cake w/ Diet cherry coke
- devils food w/ diet vanilla coke
- chocolate cake w/ rootbeer
- marble cake w/ diet cream soda
- lemon with tangerine diet rite
- white cake mix w/ diet sprite
- Red Velvet w/ Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper
- Banana cake w/ diet root beer
- Pineapple cake w/ diet Squirt
I personally don't frost mine or I just use some FF Cool Whip if I want something on it. I really just like cake! If you do want some frosting you can add one box of SF Instand Pudding (just the dry mix) to 8 oz. FF Cool Whip.
I have another yummy sweet recipe for tomorrow!
Monday, April 19, 2010
What a Glorious Weekend!
It was beautiful here in the Frozen Tundra. I can't really call it that anymore, it's not Frozen here anymore! Far from in fact! We had highs around 70 this weekend. We spent a lot of time outside doing gardening and yard work. Everything looks so much nicer now! I can't wait to be able to plant my annuals. I do a lot of annuals in pots. We have a swimming pool and we spend A LOT of time in that area of our yard during the summer, so I like it to be full of pretty blooms.
What else...Tiny Dancer had a long dance practice on Saturday. She has a competition coming up this coming weekend. It will be a busy one, but lots of fun!
Dough Boy and I discussed getting the pool opened up. It's WAY earlier than normal, but it's been so warm I'm afraid the pool will start growing things if we don't fill it up, put the chemicals in, and get the pump going. I spent some time outside on the deck reading yesterday. I did a bunch of low fat/low calorie baking on Saturday. I'll be posting those recipes in the next couple of days. They are so easy and if you've ever followed Weight Watchers you've probably seen them, but they are a couple of my favorites.
Lots coming up this week...the usual dance practices, Tiny Dancer gets her spacers in for her braces and then of course the dance competition.
Hope you all have a fabulous Monday!
What else...Tiny Dancer had a long dance practice on Saturday. She has a competition coming up this coming weekend. It will be a busy one, but lots of fun!
Dough Boy and I discussed getting the pool opened up. It's WAY earlier than normal, but it's been so warm I'm afraid the pool will start growing things if we don't fill it up, put the chemicals in, and get the pump going. I spent some time outside on the deck reading yesterday. I did a bunch of low fat/low calorie baking on Saturday. I'll be posting those recipes in the next couple of days. They are so easy and if you've ever followed Weight Watchers you've probably seen them, but they are a couple of my favorites.
Lots coming up this week...the usual dance practices, Tiny Dancer gets her spacers in for her braces and then of course the dance competition.
Hope you all have a fabulous Monday!
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Shock!
Wow! All I can say is Wow! We took Tiny Dancer to the orthodontist in the beginning of March. I did not expect to walk out of there that day with 4 appointments and her getting braces within a month a half, but that is what happened.
Today I had the "parent consultation". They've taken x-ray's, models, measurements, and photos and have now developed "the plan". So, I sat there an listened for an hour this morning while they detailed out the problems she has, what they want to do to correct each of those problems, potential risks, and of course THE COST!
Wow, expensive little suckers. The bad news is that she needs to have 5 baby teeth removed soon. Two of them she could almost pull on her own, there is no root left. So, being the kind parent that I am...offered her $10 a tooth if she can get them out herself! That way I don't have to pay to have them removed! :) We'll see if she actually does that!
Our big journey starts next week. Thursday she gets spacers to make room for the bands on the back teeth. Then on Tuesday the 27th she gets the brackets put on. Luckily she doesn't need the teeth pulled prior to these appointments.
That's the excitement here today. I'm still on track with my Weight Watchers. Having fun doing Wii Fit!
Happy Thursday!
Mama to One
Today I had the "parent consultation". They've taken x-ray's, models, measurements, and photos and have now developed "the plan". So, I sat there an listened for an hour this morning while they detailed out the problems she has, what they want to do to correct each of those problems, potential risks, and of course THE COST!
Wow, expensive little suckers. The bad news is that she needs to have 5 baby teeth removed soon. Two of them she could almost pull on her own, there is no root left. So, being the kind parent that I am...offered her $10 a tooth if she can get them out herself! That way I don't have to pay to have them removed! :) We'll see if she actually does that!
Our big journey starts next week. Thursday she gets spacers to make room for the bands on the back teeth. Then on Tuesday the 27th she gets the brackets put on. Luckily she doesn't need the teeth pulled prior to these appointments.
That's the excitement here today. I'm still on track with my Weight Watchers. Having fun doing Wii Fit!
Happy Thursday!
Mama to One
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Weigh in day!
I've decided that Tuesday's will be my weigh in day. Since I doing WW online I do the weighing myself, which has it's ups and downs. When you weigh at a WW meeting you feel accountable someone else sees it. It can also feel embarassing!
This time around I just didn't feel like I had the time for the meetings, I'm going to try it on my own. I was successful this week, down a little over 3 pounds. It's encouraging, but I also know that this first week weight loss is usually mostly water weight. I try not to dwell on that and enjoy the 3 pound weight loss!
As I try to blog through this journey I hope to share some of my favorite WW recipes and tricks. One of my favorite lunches is chiken salad on crackers.
Chicken Salad
1 small can of chicken (they come 3 cans in a sleeve at my store)
1 TBSP light Miracle Whip or Mayo
Pickle Relish to taste
Black Olives to taste
Mix it up and enjoy it on Wasa 7-Grain Crackers. I personally like to make the salad ahead of time and refridgerate it, I like it really cold. Yummy!
Other than that I'm tired today. We had some storms roll through during the night and Rocky doesn't like storms. So for a while I slept with a dog curled around my head and his neck stretched across my neck. I had a fur stole, something every girl needs in the middle of the night!
Enjoy your Tuesday!
Mama to One
This time around I just didn't feel like I had the time for the meetings, I'm going to try it on my own. I was successful this week, down a little over 3 pounds. It's encouraging, but I also know that this first week weight loss is usually mostly water weight. I try not to dwell on that and enjoy the 3 pound weight loss!
As I try to blog through this journey I hope to share some of my favorite WW recipes and tricks. One of my favorite lunches is chiken salad on crackers.
Chicken Salad
1 small can of chicken (they come 3 cans in a sleeve at my store)
1 TBSP light Miracle Whip or Mayo
Pickle Relish to taste
Black Olives to taste
Mix it up and enjoy it on Wasa 7-Grain Crackers. I personally like to make the salad ahead of time and refridgerate it, I like it really cold. Yummy!
Other than that I'm tired today. We had some storms roll through during the night and Rocky doesn't like storms. So for a while I slept with a dog curled around my head and his neck stretched across my neck. I had a fur stole, something every girl needs in the middle of the night!
Enjoy your Tuesday!
Mama to One
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