I made dinner for once! Super simple cheesy beef enchiladas

Ok, I'm gonna start this post off with what I did yesterday- I made dinner for once. See, my hubs is the cook in our house, but he has been super sick all week- has a very bad case of Brochitis, so he begged me to either pick something up or make dinner. I was feeling ambicious after working a mid-day shift instead of a night shift, so I decided to make beef enchiladas. These were super easy to make!

Super Simple Cheesy Beef Enchiladas

What you need:

• 2 cans enchilada sauce (calls for 2, but I only used one, since that is all I had)
• 1 lb ground beef
• shredded mexican blend cheese
• tortilla shells

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Brown the ground beef in a skillet or electric fry pan. Drain the grease and the pour in about 3/4 or 1/2 (depending on what you like) of the enchilada sauce in with the beef and some shredded cheese (about a cup or so). Mix it together. Spray cooking spray (PAM) on inside of casserole dish. Scoop the enchilada insides into the tortilla shells and put the seam side down in the dish. Once you have all your enchiladas in the dish, pour the remaining enchilada sauce overtop and sprinkle some more cheese. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes.

I served it will refried beans, spanish rice and corn. I am going to admit right now, I DID NOT look at the weight watchers points plus at all for this entire meal, as my hubs was so sick and I felt I'd be nice and not force him to eat a weight watchers meal. So forgive me healthy peeps, as this probably wasn't the best health-wise meal. If you use chicken or turkey meat and low-fat or skim milk cheese, would probably make the enchiladas healthier and different sides (more vegs).

Anyways, on to the rest of the week in food.

 Actually had a Starbucks Frappicino last Saturday- but healthier- got a Low-fat caramel tall frapp. with no whip and low-fat milk. Only 3 weight watchers points plus supposably! Had a side of fruit and I was super good that morning!

 Gave Special K's cracker chips a second chance, and boy am I glad I did. I personally don't like the sea salt chips, but these Sour Cream & Onion ones are awesome! I went back and bought the Southwestern Ranch and Chedder ones the next day, and those are great too!

 A simple lunch- Sp. K chips, banana, cheese stick, and turkey sandwich.

 Super happy that I can pull off skinny jeans for once. I never could do that when I was heavier, and now they are my favorite to wear with flats!

 Part of a typical dinner at work (when working night shift)- a Lean Cuisine and side of vegs.

Happy to find Angry Orchard hard cider at our local beer distributor. According to my calculations, supposably it is only 3 weight watchers points plus! Woo!


So when I weighed in this morning I was +0.6 lbs, however that might be totally different tomorrow morning, since the enchiladas we had last night, and you know how mexican food makes people bloated (not to sound gross or anything).
Anyways, happy weight loss and healthy-ness!
-M

Wonky Week

Ok, so on my "official" weigh in, I gained 2.2 lbs (I blame the ice cream I had the day before). However, I hopped on the scale today (Thursday, so 2 days later) and had lost those 2.2 lbs to put me back at what I was the week before. So I'm going to take this week as a lesson, and hope that for the next 5 days I can lose something!
It's been a busy week as usual, since we are well into practices for the show and we are getting to the point where there is little time. Luckily however, the 4th of July happened in the middle of the week to give us a break from pretty much everything.

The hubs made this wonderful sour-cream casserole, 10 points plus for 1/4 of the casserole dish. Perfect!

For 4th of July we enjoyed margaritas and buffalo chicken dip at our one friend's place and chatted the night away with fellow friends while watching Dr. Who. (Yes, we are super geeks).

Lastly, while at a restaurant after practice on Tuesday, I had a beer. If you know me, you know I am NOT a beer person. But for some reason, I had 3 spare points and I really felt like one. So I got a light Heineken. I had never had one, but it was the only non-crappy brand in Light. Afterwards I thought to myself, "I actually liked that!" Who knew!? haha

Anyways, lesson learned- do NOT give into the temptation if you don't want to pay for it weigh in day. Aka, don't give into this:

I MUST be good the rest of the week, otherwise I'll start getting in a downward spiral. I am so close to that goal, but I gotta keep with it.
It's funny, so many people I know have started Weight Watchers lately, that it doesn't feel weird talking about it anymore. Even my boss started it!
Anywho, I MUST do good this week!
Happy weight loss all.
-M

Blargh!

Blargh! So this week I officially switched my points to 29 from 30 daily points. I guess my body didn't like that and I only lost 0.2 lbs! That by far has been my worst lost yet. It kind of made me what to cry and beat up my scale all at the same time. I did hit the 33 lbs down total mark, I just wished it was closer to 34 instead. Part of it was hard figuring out the points for my dinner at this one restaurant that we went out with some friends with over the weekend.

 (my Key-lime martini- my one splurge of the weekend)

Over the weekend I cleaned out my closet- purged a lot of clothes that either don't fit, I don't like anymore, etc. I separated my clothes into a few piles: Clothes too big, too small, donating to Goodwill, trying to sell on eBay, and then in the closet goes those that fit. :D Here's the cleaned up closet.

Another thing I have been testing out this past 2 weeks is to try some new dinners. I tried the Healthy Choice Beef Merlot steamer- SUPER AWESOME! I totally would suggest it.

I also tried the Chicken Basil in Cream Sauce with Tortellini by Lean Cuisine, also another fab. dinner. What a big change between the classic Lean Cuisine and these new Chef specials. I tried their Ranchero Beef with Sweet Potato mashed potatoes- wasn't bad tasting, just wasn't big enough to justify 6 points. I think I'll stick with the Chicken Basil.

I am only 4 lean cuisine's away from getting a free lunch box! yay! I love their rewards program. I just have to have them in by March 31st, and then I get a new lunch box. Hooray!

Today I also got my first package from my secret sister weight loss swap- super cute! I got a whole red themed package of crafting goodies and an adorable strawberry card and the most awesomeness of snacks- Skinny Cow chocolate caramel clusters- only 2 points plus a pack! Super amazing and so worth it!

Well, hopefully this week goes better. Already, it has been better with me exercising a bit more (beautiful weather and all) and so far sticking closer to my points. I'm looking forward to my dessert tonight of a Weight Watchers Ice Cream bar. Can't wait.

*crossing fingers* for a good weight loss week.
-M