Post birthday wrap up

So I am staying strong at 151 lbs this week. After having a week of "I don't care what I eat because its my birthday," I was surprised I didn't gain.
I mean, I ate some pretty non-diety foods, and lots of it. But I guess there is still part of me that in the back of my mind is saying, "don't do that, don't eat that, don't eat ALL of that." Some of that must of come through. That or I just had a good "scale day." haha
Here's some of the lowdown on the foodies since last I updated.

 Yeah. So, this is soooo not on my diet. But it was free from Buffalo Wild Wings for my birthday. Sometimes you just gotta live a little, or just drool over the picture and not eat it. Luckily, I shared it- I couldn't eat it all.

 My birthday dinner at Bellissimo italian restaurant in Allentown. I was smart enough to only eat a portion of it and got the rest to go. Pesto Chicken pasta- yum!

 Great wine we tasted for my b-day dinner. Shared among 3 of us, so that wasn't too bad.

 My absolute favorite Healthy Choice steamer- pesto pasta with chicken. Can you tell I like pesto chicken?

 Homemade sloppie joe bowtie pasta. Hubs' favorite.

 The most amazing cupcakes known to man- Margarita cupcakes made by my co-worker for my b-day. So awesome!

And lastly, the Rita's in our area has officially opened. I celebrated their season opening with a sugar free mango-peach gelati with slenderita custard. Not bad on weight watchers points, actually.

Hopefully after our big party on Saturday I can get back on track. We've been strapped for cash, since all our spare $ is going to the party, that I haven't gotten a chance to make a good healthy grocery run. What is your go-to healthy food that isn't that expensive?
Happy weight loss!
-M

Down another two pounds!

So I know I'm really late posting, but this past week I'm down another 2 lbs, making me 0.2 lbs away from the 150 lb mark. Now, since that Wednesday, the rest of my week has been a rollercoaster of good and bad food, so who knows how the scale will react next week.

 Turkey panini from La Villa, down the street. I only could eat half, so it was good to have for dinner later.

This place is my favorite!


Also, it is the dreaded Girl Scout Cookie time. ugh.
I love girl scout cookies, but the points...eek. I actually figured out how many Weight watchers points plus per cookie, and it is quite depressing. Check out this post I did a while back on the breakdown.

 Basically 1 points plus per thin mint. ugh

 My hubs made the BEST cupcakes ever- Moscato cupcakes with moscato cream cheese icing. So bad, yet so good. When he gets around to posting the recipe, I'll post it up too.

So the hubs and I went to Chili's after a long day of working on the house. I was pleasantly surprised to find that they now have a low-cal/healthy menu. They had skinny margaritas (below) and lots of other great choices for low calories (and low points!). I was sooooo happy!

 To be honest, this skinny margarita was one of the best margarita's I've had in a long time

 Margarita chicken with rice and beans. So good and filling, and not that bad point wise!

My hubs saw a ham and egg breakfast "muffin" so he thought he'd give it a shot for the first breakfast we had in our new breakfast nook (see my madcapfrenzy blog post on how that turned out). It was tasty, but we realized probably 2 slices of ham per "muffin" would hold together better.

Anyways, we showed off a new breakfast nook and dining room/bar with friends coming over, so my meals and eatting habits were terrible this weekend. Today wasn't very good either, as I just down right was hungry and felt icky...sadly after eatting more than I should, I feel even worse. blah.
I need to get back to exercising to make up.

*fingers crossed for a better rest of the week*
Happy weight loss.
-M

Hitting my goal weight!

Ok. So this past Tuesday (my weigh in day) I officially hit my goal weight! Yay! I actually dropped 1.2 lbs below my goal on my weigh in. :D
So, I have lost 63.2 lbs since October of 2011. That is is roughly 6.32 lbs a month (10 months).  
So from now on, whatever I lose, is just for the heck of it. If I don't ever lose any more from here on out, I'm not going to cry, just as long as I don't gain any back.
This was surprising, considering I didn't eat well on last Thursday (our wedding anniversary- 8/23), but then again, I was good every other day.
Since I hit my goal, here is my official before and after. Since I don't have a lot of photos when I started, I tried to find a picture of me when I was at my heaviest- which def. was during our trip to Florida (hence why picture from July, when I didn't start WW till October). Anyways, here you go.

 And now for the rest of the week's stuff.

 (from our anniversary dinner at TexMex mexican restaurant).

 (hubs and I. Happy 4th wedding anniversary and 8th together anniversary!)

 (my FAVORITE wine of all time to celebrate the anniversary.)

(went hiking for a co-worker's bday here on Saturday).

 (minestrone soup by Progressive. Surprisingly good)

 (Went to Dorney with best bud Cat for her bachelorette celebration. This is me by the pirate setup... supposably looking thin, she says.)

 (we shall see if these crab fries made me gain weight this week... we shall see)

(or this margarita I had 2 days ago...hmmm)

On other news, my beloved hubs has decided to join me in Weight Watchers' teachings and give it a go, so he can lose his remaining 18 lbs he wants to lose. I plan on trying to lose 8.8 more lbs to be at an even 140 lbs, eventually. To be honest, I can't imagine myself below that, since that would be what I was in high school (I was 135 lbs in high school- and my boobs were half the size they are now. haha)

So, I'm super proud of my accomplishment, 63.2 lbs in 10 months. Who knows, maybe I'll hit the 75 lbs gone in a year. (not going to hold my breath, but I'll try it). Happy losses and cheers to a long journey that I'm super happy to have achieved. Now to keep it up and not gain it back...
Happy losses.
-M