Over the halfways point

So after my weigh in on Tuesday, I lost another 1.6 lbs, making my grand total lost at 31.4 lbs. I'm official over halfways to my goal! Hooray!
I was skeptical about my weight loss after dealing with a very tempting day at a hockey game (beer anyone?), followed by going to Buffalo Wild Wings. Each boneless wing is 2 pp, and then for every 6 wings (so 12 pp at this point) you have to tack on an addition point for the sauce. So, 6 boneless mild wings is 13 points plus. Eek! I soaked up a huge chunk of my weekly points that day, as I had Chipotle for lunch. All in all, it is the most I have ever used of my weekly points thus far, but luckily I didn't touch them at all every other day that week. So, I was super happy and super surprised with the 1.6 lbs loss.

 (Me and friend Dani at the game- with 7 other people (one being my hubs)).

 (The Titans won 5-1 that day!)

 (Beer anyone?)

The hubs tempted me with birthday cake at my bday surprise on Monday (my bday is Sunday, but so few people could get together that day, he surprised me early). So, cake...yeah...super hard.
When you look at the point values for vanilla birthday cake with icing, it makes you want to cry. I had 8 pp at the end of the day, so we figured out how big of a slice I could have, and I must say, it was mighty pitiful. *sigh*

(The dreaded birthday cake)

Anyways, hopefully the rest of the week goes well and I keep on trucking along with my weight loss. Since I hit 30 lbs down, I'm officially going to go through my closet this week, so I'm hoping for another moral boost. :D
Laters and keep on losing it! hehe
-M

A little delayed

So I'm a little delayed with my weekly update. So on Tuesday I lost another pound (sadly not 1.4 lbs as I hoped to reach 30) but I better/hopefully will get to 30 lbs down since October next Tuesday.
The hubs and I tried a new recipe on Wednesday night- Skinnytaste.com's Chicken Enchilada Soup. We tweaked a few minor things and also didn't make it in a crock pot, but it still was mighty yummy.
Here is the link to the recipe: http://www.skinnytaste.com/2011/12/crock-pot-chicken-enchilada-soup.html

(below is my photo of it before I put weight watchers cheese on top)

I'm finally really starting to notice clothes fitting looser this week, as most of my pants are getting loose in the front of my thighs and my behind area...and a little from the waist. I also am comfortably fitting my pretty embroidered coat, so that means I'm doing good.

Of course we had some Chipotle- how could I resist...luckily  get the same thing every time and know the points for it.

Monday was really tough (the day before my weigh) because it was our Pre-Valentine's Day dinner (I worked late Tuesday, so we couldn't really go out to eat). I made sure I saved all of my weekly points for this special dinner, as I was determined to have one of their famous margaritas. The hubs made me a skinny margarita when I got home, but it still is no where near as good as these-

Other than the soup, I haven't tried a whole lot of new things this week, just trucking along. Hopefully I'll hit my 30 lbs down next week, so I can do my closet binge and re-try on my whole closet and my "skinny clothes."
Looking forward to that day. Maybe I'll get a manicure when that happens. lol
Happy Weight Loss!
-M

Another week down

So I am getting close to being 30 lbs down- I am officially down 28.6 lbs since October (I lost 1.2 lbs this week). It could of been a LOT better, but Super Bowl happened- along with my friend DD's super duper punch and citrus vodka.

It was a Chili kind of week- with me having the chili I made 3 days in the week and had some of dd's chili on Super bowl. I'll post some pics of the chili process shortly with the recipe. Each serving was 8 points plus (it made 6 servings). It was very good and very spicy- just the way I like it.

We also went to eat at Cracker Barrel yesterday after getting stuff done earlier that morning. Luckily, I found my beloved Grilled Chicken tenderloin dinner platter with green beans and hashbrown casserole was only 10 points plus total (4 for chicken, 5 for hashbrowns, and 1 for green beans- I'm assuming because of butter). I also had one biscuit (4 points plus, opposed to the 5 pp for a cornbread piece). All it all it was filling and not the worst thing I could eat (14 pp total)- for an "out to eat" meal that wasn't a salad, I was pleased.

So all in all, I'm happy with my 1.2 lbs loss for the week. Hopefully this week goes far better, as I have no parties to attend to and I'm working 6 days straight this week (surprisingly enough, I eat pretty good at work, because I pack my lunch/dinner). So, *crossing fingers* I loose 1.4 lbs next week to hit 30 lbs lost. That would make me super happy. These past 10 lbs have gone a little slower than that first ones, but hopefully I pick up steam again.
Off to go do a 3point plus walk. :D
Happy weight loss everyone!
-M

Enjoying the good things in life, and still losing weight

So I am down another 1.8 lbs this week- grand total of 27.4 lbs since I started Weight Watchers. :D
Today my pants and shirt are loose- haven't really noticed the clothing difference except for the pants. Some things I learned this past week:

Pepperidge Farm Light Style soft wheat (says 45 calories per slice on the front) is an amazing alternative to the Weight Watchers wheat bread (I couldn't find it at my local grocery store, but found the Pepperidge farm one and it tastes just as good and is only 1 points plus a slice!)

It is always so hard to go out to eat and be healthy. My favorite soup in the world is Chili's Chicken enchilada soup. So when the hubs suggested we go get some lunch on Monday (my last day before my weigh in on Tuesday mornings) I knew I HAD to have the soup and salad combo. Now, chili's has great chips and salsa as well. Luckily I had a light breakfast, and hadn't touched my weekly points at all this week. So I kind of splurged and had an extra cup of soup at the end of the meal, because I think that soup is THAT good. So this is what I got at Chili's:

• 1/4 of Chips and salsa (they said the entire basket and salsa is 27 points plus): 6.75 pp
• 1 bowl of Chicken enchilada soup: 11pp
• 1 salad with low fat ranch on the side (just for dipping), no tomatoes and I ate only 1/2 the croutons: I said it was only a 2 pp salad because I didn't use all the dressing and didn't eat all the croutons. It might of even been only a 1 pp salad, but better to over shoot.
• then finished with 1 additional cup of chicken enchilada soup: 5pp

Total meal (with a large glass of water): 24.75 (25) points plus
(it could of been a LOT worse, but that soup was killer- if I had used some of my weekly points, I would of skipped the chips and the extra cup of soup, but I was good all week, so I couldn't pass it up)

So overall, a very large meal- very filling too, but I didn't have much for breakfast and had a very light dinner, so it all worked out. We didn't do any entertaining or go out really all week (except Chipotle- which at this point, we are such regulars, I get the same thing every time). Later I'll upload my own photos of the soup and chips, but for now, you get this filler photo above. hehe

So, I also plan on creating this awesomely cute idea I picked up from Pintrest (which in turn is actually from this site: http://hotmessprincess.com/2012/01/the-motivational-marbles-project/

When I make my own, I'll photograph it and add it up here too. :D

Gotta keep on trucking along. I'm less than 4 lbs away from my midway point. Can't wait till I hit those 30 lbs mark!

Happy weight loss!

-M

Marshmallows!

Ok, so my weigh in on Tuesday showed that it is possible to have a little bit of fun over the weekend, and still loose Something. Not as good as previous weeks, but still something.
I'm down another 0.8 lbs this week, making my grand total to be 25.6 lbs since I started Weight Watchers in October.
As far as marshmallows, I found out today that 3 standard sized jet-puffed marshmallows are 1 point. I was like, REALLY!? 3 marshmallows are = to one piece of caramel weight watchers chocolate. Who knew!?
Anyways, been good since my weigh in and even walked for 35 minutes today.
Also, I've had multiple people this week and last week say to me, "You're melting away, how much have you lost?" Now some of these are people who are friends that probably see my weight loss online and facebook, but a handful of them have been co-workers that I don't really see outside of work, and don't really talk to much. Today for example I had 2 different people from different departments say the above phrase to me. One of them said she had to do a doubletake in the cafe. because she wasn't sure it was me, from the side. lol
I personally don't really notice my 25 pound loss, but I guess everyone else does. haha
So, here's to a better weight loss week! Cheers!
m

eeek...cookies...but yay on weight loss

So today I lost another 2.2 lbs, making my grand total of loss since joining weight watchers at 24.8 lbs down! hooray! And with this, I celebrate with...girl scout cookies?!
Not really, but there was the dreaded but delectable cookies in the office today. With that, I thought I'd look up the points plus for all the different kinds of girl scout cookies. Check it out:

Girl Scout Cookies:

• Caramel deLites (Samoas): 2 cookies = 4 points plus 
• Peanut Butter patties (Do-si-dos): 2 cookies = 4 points plus 
• Peanut butter sandwich (Tagalongs): 3 cookies = 5 points plus
• Shortbread (Trefoils): 4 cookies = 3 points plus
• Thin mints: 4 cookies = (4 points plus from ABC bakers/5 points plus for Little brownie bakers)
• Savannah Smiles: 5 cookies = 4 points plus
• Thank U Berry Munch: 2 cookies = 3 points plus
• Lemonades: 2 cookies = 4 points plus
• Dulce de Leche: 4 cookies = 4 points plus
• Thanks-A-Lot: 2 cookies = 4 points plus
• Shout Outs!: 4 cookies = 3 points plus

Best bang for your points:

• Shortbread (trefoils)
• Shout Outs!
• Savannah smiles

(I found this info at:  http://www.justdietnow.com/girl-scout-cookies.html )

So I snarfed down 2 peanut butter patties, and jotted down the dreaded 4 points of those two cookies, and now must re-arrange my dinner around it. haha
I guess I'll just have to eat a small dinner with lots of fruits tonight!
Happy weight loss everyone and *crossing fingers* for a good week again.
-M

Little steps

So I'm down another 0.8 lbs this week. Not as fabulous as previous weeks, and nowhere near my hope for 1/5-2 lbs a week loss, but I'll take it. This week has been SUPER rough.
We've been busy doing lots of stuff around the house and out and about stuff for the theater. I've been stressing out like no-other for certain things.
I've also been bad and had diet coke 3 days in a row (I know, I was off the caffeine train for so long, then I lacked sleep one day and I needed for 3 days straight! Eek!) Smartly, it was diet soda, but still, I should try to wien off of it.
Food-wise, Wren tried out his new "Perfect meatloaf" pan, so I weighed out how much I could have and how much roasted potatoes I could have besides my vegs, and our meal was complete. The slice of meatloaf was a little puny I must say, but if I hadn't had a large Chipotle meal, i would of been able to do more.

Also food-wise, we are running low in the cabinets and fridge for the 'healthy-go-to-foods' so i've had to improvise and order out a lot more. Not my usual smart ones and fav. breakfasts recently. Hopefully I can get to the grocery store tomorrow and stock back up (I also blame our outragously high heating bill that came- makes me not want to spend more money for a bit, but a girl's gotta eat!).
Anyways, many people I know have been joining Weight Watchers recently, including my mom and step-sister and step-bro-in-law. Hopefully we all will be so successful!
So I'm down 0.8 lbs this week, making a total of 22.6 lbs lost since I start Weight Watchers. I gotta keep trucking along. I got 39.4 lbs left to lose till I reach my goal!
Off to go walk some.
-M