5 Week Challenge…Day’s 18 & 19

Our wedding anniversary is Mother’s Day weekend, and we never end up celebrating that weekend. We like to pick a weekend in June, and make a Staycation out of it. That’s exactly what we did this weekend.

We started out in the West Plaza neighborhood walking from block to block at the second annual Porchfest. I loved it. There were over 100 bands playing from noon-5:00 on porches throughout the neighborhood. Everyone was walking around pulling coolers or wagons full of beer….or maybe wagons full of kids, either way…lots of wagons, and dogs, lots of dogs. We had a great time and we can’t wait to go back next year with our own cooler on wheels, any maybe even our dogs!

After Porchfest, we checked into our room on the County Club Plaza, a great area to spend the night if you decided to visit Kansas City.

I packed us an appetizer of fruit and cheese, and I took a bottle of wine. We had a great view of the Plaza from our balcony.

 

After wine, we walked to dinner and the weather cooperated for a perfect date night.

 

We did a wine tasting and ate dinner at Cooper’s Hawk. The wine tasting was so good, but was completely unnecessary since we had already shared a bottle of wine. For dinner, we shared an appetizer and an entree, but hardly ate any of either. We really had too much wine before dinner. Ha! The food there is delicious, but we really weren’t hungry.

Sunday morning, there was a “Dog and Jog Two Mile Race” at 8:00 am on the Plaza, and after watching all of the people and dogs while we drank coffee on the balcony, we decided to take a walk of our own. I was super proud of us for agreeing to pack our clothes and shoes to walk in.

We walked along Brush Creek, which I had always thought would be a great walk, and we enjoyed a few of the Plaza’s beautiful fountains.

 

After our walk, we went to brunch at one of my favorite spots, then continued our Staycation with a visit to Kansas City’s 18 and Vine District.

 

We both have lived in Kansas City for our entire lives, and neither one of us has ever been to the very well known, Jazz District at 18th and Vine. We toured the Jazz Museum and the National Negro Baseball Museum, something we have talked about doing for a long time. After listening to others walking through the museum and paying attention to the license plates in the parking lot, we realized we may have been the only locals there. Both were great museums and if you live here and you haven’t been, put it on your KC Bucket List! If you come for a visit, check it out!

We had a great Staycation weekend. I hope that you all had a great weekend as well.

I admit, I lost track on points this weekend, so I’m going to assume that I ate (or drank) all of my 49 Extra Weekly Points, and only have 26 points a day for the remainder of the week. I’ll drink lots of water, get my exercise in and focus on the Simply Filling Food list.

Have a great day!

Here are Saturday’s eats….

Breakfast – 6 PPV

Fruit topped with 1 tsp Almond Butter, Egg Sandwich with 1 Laughing Cow Cheese Wedge

Lunch – ?

Wine, Cheese, Grapes, Crackers….lots of water

Dinner – ?

We shared an order of Calamari and an Entree of Grouper, Filet, Potatoes and Veggies, but ate very little of either.

Here are Sunday’s eats….

Breakfast – ?

I packed a cooler of snacks so we didn’t need to hurry out the door for breakfast, or spend a lot of money on room service. Blueberry’s, Granola, Grapes, Carrots and Cheese. We had a Chocolate Dipped Strawberry left over from dinner too.

Brunch – ?

Nonfat Latte and Breakfast Taco’s on Corn Tortilla’s, Fruit.

Dinner – ?

The fridge was pretty bare, but I had some chicken meatballs, a few low calorie hot dog buns, and some asparagus. I sprayed the buns with olive oil cooking spray and tossed them in the grill pan after I cooked the asparagus.  A little spicy mustard on these and dinner was not too shabby for thinking we had no groceries. 

 

Weight Watcher’s Points Plus

I can eat 26 PPV a day.

I can earn Activity Points by doing exercise, and eat them if I choose.

I have an allowance of 49 extra points that I can dip into throughout the week if I choose.

I should drink a minimum of 6 (8 oz) glasses of water each day.

My Weight Watcher Week Begins on Friday’s

 

Exercise = walked 3 miles

Activity Points Earned for the Day = 4

Activity Points Earned This Week = 4

Activity Points Remaining This Week = 4

How many ounces of water I drank for the day = 100+ each day

Remaining points from my 49 Points Allowance = 0

 

This is What I Will Accomplish in 2015

I will choose one occasion per month for Social Drinking (um…this is a work in progress)
I will go no more than two days in a row without exercise.
I will track every single day for the entire year. No matter what.
I will RUN in a minimum of six 5K’s. Two down, four to go!

“love the life you live, live the life you love”