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Playing Catch Up I never did get a blog post written on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, and after reading this post over and over and over, I apologize in advance for the ridiculously boring post that you are about to read. Between a watching a full Season of “Black is the New Orange” and not feeling well, I seem to have lost my sense of humor. I’ll rest up and try to find the funny in me. I did go to my Weight Watcher’s meeting on Friday morning, and I learned a LOT! I spent the rest of Friday running last minute errands. Friday night, we did a little spontaneous entertaining. Saturday and Sunday I spent sniffing, coughing, sneezing and sipping a lot of hot tea with honey to sooth my sore throat. Not feeling like doing much, I introduced myself to Netflix. That may have been a mistake. I […]

Ten Pounds So, I told you that it was bad when I weighed Friday morning, but I didn’t tell you that it was “Ten Pounds” bad. In the last six to seven weeks, I’ve gained 10 pounds. There. It’s out. The horrible news is now in print. I let myself get off of my plan and eat and drink a lot of things that literally don’t do my body any good at all. I ate things that I didn’t write down. I pretended that I was in control and that I was fine. Now I’m paying the price. When I weighed 205, and I lost 10 pounds to get me to 195, I really didn’t feel that different.  195 to 185 did feel a little different. 185 to 175 made me feel more confident about my physical self. 175 to 165? I enjoyed 165 a lot! It was hard to […]

In a time crunch, so this post is written a little differently than usual and in a huge hurry. The last two days have not been the best variety of foods. Basically I’ve been eating Chili! Today will be a better variety of foods and I will exercise as much as I did yesterday, because it felt great to walk outside!  Monday  I didn’t get my blog post written yesterday, and this morning I overslept, so this is going to be super short. I say that all the time, then I have a story to tell, (like today) and I start typing, then I just keep typing and typing and typing. I’ll likely be late for the Food Truck today!! I went to the doctor on Monday morning for my girly annual exam. Fun, right? On the way there, I knew I was going to say that I didn’t want […]

Have I mentioned in the last two post how I feel in control? Oh good. The mind really can be such a powerful thing! We had plans to go to the dinner theatre on Sunday afternoon, and aside from being a little nervous about the food choices, I was really looking forward to the show! Norm! This was a great play, and his co-star was his real life wife of 35 years! The show was a cute little comedy and it was a great way to spend a December Sunday afternoon relaxing after spending the week in the hustle and bustle of the Christmas shopping crowd. I was worried there would be nothing point friendly on the buffet. I had coffee and a banana in the morning, then ate some protein before we left the house around 11:00. While seated at the dinner theatre, we were served our salad with […]

It felt really good to be in control yesterday. After going to an early morning WW meeting and feeling back in the game, I had a plan for the day to eat lean protein, drink lots of water, get in some exercise and keep myself busy! And that’s exactly what I did. I had a plan. I was in control. I braved the Mall and Costco and a few other places and was successful at finding what I was looking for and successful at finding a few nice surprises. I kept busy enough and had lunch before I left, so snacking and sweets never even entered my mind. I had a plan. I was in control. We had plans with some neighbors for an evening get together, so I ate a chicken breast (in the ugliest picture that I’ve ever taken of any food since I began this blog!!)  and […]

Wait, nobody died. I am in a better place, “mentally”. I am so glad that I finally faced the scale yesterday morning. As difficult as it was to finally do that, It brought me back to where I needed to be. (Because of the icy roads and the reported accidents just blocks from my house yesterday, I did NOT actually go to my Friday morning meeting, but I did weigh at home.) Knowing I needed the benefits of an actual WW meeting,  I woke up this morning and I headed out the door for the Saturday, early morning WW meeting. I weighed at home before I left the house, and I weighed TWO pounds less than I weighed yesterday at home, so that helped knowing that some of my weight gain was in fact some water weight. It also helped to know that my healthy choices on Friday were reflected […]

I got on the scale and it sucked the life right out of me! So I jumped off, paced around the house, pee’d again, exhaled and stepped on again. Same frickin’ thing! So I sent my “coach” a text and told her I needed her. I’ve basically been doing whatever I want for several weeks now, and I was missing my accountability to her. I had gotten to 154, and it had felt so good. I know I was testing the water’s a bit, and then I stopped stepping on the scale. I don’t really know why I stopped doing that. It would have kept me on tract. I knew I was making bad choices. It all started with my birthday weekend. It was MY birthday, damn it! I wanted to do whatever I wanted. Then it was Thanksgiving, and actually on Thanksgiving, I did a pretty good job. Then […]

Finally, a good Weight Watcher’s Day! I woke up yesterday telling myself I HAD to pull myself together! So I did. It’s so weird when you just say you’re gonna do it, then you do. My BIG challenge for the day was making treats for a cookie exchange that I am going to tonight. I made something called Crockpot Candy? I think it’s from my mom’s generation. It’s basically peanut clusters, but you could really add anything to it. This was my first experience making it, so I just followed this Trisha Yearwood recipe exactly as it said. You really just throw a bunch of peanuts in the crockpot (2 pounds!), then add a few different types of chocolate on top, cover and cook on low for three hours without stirring. Then you stir the great big chocolate concoction and it looks like this!   No, it is not chili, […]

(Revised to SmartPoints – 9/22/16, Original Post – December 2013) My mom made this a lot in the winter when I was a kid. I still remember walking into the house on a cold day and the house smelling like a big pot of winter yumminess. Mom still makes this soup. She made it this week as a matter of fact, which reminded me that I hadn’t made it in a while. It’s naturally a great Low Point option to have on hand, and what could be better on a bitter cold night than a bowl of Mom’s winter yumminess?? You can really change this soup up a lot, so there really are no rules. The things that make it so great are the V-8 soup, your meat option and a couple of bay leafs. I have calculated the points with a few different variations of ground meat and vegetables, and […]

Once upon a time, “10 Girls” took a trip to the big city of Chicago….. Wait, 10 ladies. Wait, no…. girls, girls in their 40’s and 50’s. Maybe the youngest 40 and 50 year old’s you’ve ever met. Why do I say girls? Let me start with our socks. Someone (maybe the silliest girl) came up with this great idea that we all wear Christmas socks to the airport, and oddly, we ALL agreed that sounded like a fun way to start off the trip!    Then my travel outfit became all about the socks……   After Rumchata shots, an adventurous ride to the airport, retrieving boarding passes, checking bags, and possibly enjoying the attention received from our Christmas socks, the “10 Girls” (actually there were 9, we had one meeting us at the airport coming in from Atlanta) went to the bar. Surprise! It was now about 10:30 am. […]