still crafting.

again, sorry for sporadic posting!  all this crafting is killing me!

good news is i have 20 glass tile necklaces for the craft fair!  bad news is, only 1 squid!  after i treadmill and shower, it's probably gonna be squids all day. . .

tracking:

activity:

housework, 30 mins.:  2 pts

lunch:

2 grilled ham, cheese and tomato sandwiches:  13 pts

activity:
treadmill, mod., 20 mins.:  3 pts

total used:  13 pts

activity points earned today:  5 pts

apple-y.

apple-y is how my house smells right now.  yum.

sorry for not posting yesterday.  with the spring fling, our first craft fair, coming up on the 30th, i've been motivated to do little else but craft.  sadly, one of my projects is taking forever, while the other i can make 10 in like, 30 minutes.  i only managed to make one squid, but as long as i can make a squid a day i think we'll have plenty.  i'm also working on some glass tile pendants, got some pretty scrapbook paper yesterday, plus have 5 recycled pokemon card pendants.  very cool, if i do say so myself. 

anyway, with all that, i didn't track very well yesterday.  not to say i didn't, and i kept up with my points well (used exactly all of them and no more), but i didn't write them down in any form.  also, my journal is kinda bummin' me out.  it's getting all tore up and bug wrote on it and the stickers are coming off and blah blah blah.  it doesn't interest me anymore.  i will say that a cute book does motivate me to track!  i only have to finish out the week and then i have a nice fresh one to start!  i'm all ready planning it's decoration with some of the leftover scrapbook paper from the pendants.

also, i made a salad for lunch!  i'm know, i'm just as surprised as you are!  i had some tasty boca meatless spicy chicken patties in the freezer, but no buns to eat them on, only bread.  then i realized if i didn't use bread i could totally eat two of them!  so i put them in the oven, put some sharp cheddar cheese on them and cut them up on top of some lettuce and diced tomatoes.  put a little hot sauce on top.  delicious, and i tricked myself into eating a bowl of lettuce.  :P

anyway, on to tracking!

tracking:

activity:

housework, low, 50 mins.:  +5 pts

activity:
treadmill, mod, 20 mins.:  +3 pts

lunch:
spicy chicken salad:  12 pts

snack:
leftover chicken patty:  6 pts

dinner:
mexican-y salad w/ chicken:  14 pts

total points used:  32 pts

total activity points earned:  8 pts

total activity points earned for the week:  18

banana pudding.

now, as a good southern girl, i could probably make banana pudding in my sleep.  it's one of the few southern belle things i can accomplish (along with delicious sweet tea, but not including anything that needs to be fried).  chris bought all the stuff to make it, but the bananas he got were already close to being really ripe, and he kept forgetting to make it.  we decided last night he needed to make it or else those bananas were off to meet their maker.  

and of course, we forgot about it.

so i made it today.

again, i know how to make a banana pudding.  my problem is i get sort of artsy with it.  i like to have a clear bowl so you can see all the pretty layers.  so my pudding has a vanilla wafer border, a vanilla wafer daisy and a crushed vanilla wafer bed to rest on (i couldn't very well decorate with the broken ones until they were crushed into powder).  i also have a vanilla wafer bias, so the vanilla wafer to pudding ratio is probably a little off. . .

lookit mah puddin'!

with it's beautiful puddin' layers.

as you can tell from this photo, my pudding was too big for my bowl.  a little way too big.  but that did mean i got a delicious pudding snack,  since if i would have poured anymore in, it would have exploded.  i'm sure it's still delicious though, regardless of how it looks.

in other foodie news, my tummy is still full and sad from mexican food yesterday.  i didn't really think that meal would fill me up all day, but it totally did.  and when i put lunch in it today, it was kinda sad.  D:  oh wells.

tracking:

activity:

housework, 60 min., low impact:  5 pts

lunch:

2 grilled cheese w/ bacon and tomato:  16 pts

snack:

leftover banana pudding:  3 pts

activity:
treadmill, mod., 40 min.:  5 pts

snack:
vanilla wafers:  4 pts

dinner:
3 enchiladas:  21 pts

total used:  44 pts

activity points earned today:  10  pts
activity points earned for the week:  10 pts

rainy day.

so, beginning of a new week, which means weigh in day!  

i am a sad tiffers though, didn't gain but just can't seem to get a way from this 274. . .sigh.  oh well.

today is again very rainy and sad.  i'm gettin' tired of this rain!  it was so nice out yesterday. . .

anyway, today me and chris are going to be good citizens and go give some blood.  i've always wanted to do it, cuz i know if i ever needed some blood i'd want there to be some around!  so it's only fair to give a little bit.  my daddy does it all the time.  i've just never wanted to go by myself, but chris is going too, so i can be brave!

now everyone knows you get rewarded for giving blood right?  well the blood drive is at zaxby's and you get a free meal for donating!!  i haven't had zaxby's in MONTHS and i think i've i'm gonna hand over some blood i deserve a treat.  :P

EDIT:  so chris totally got the date wrong for the blood drive.  it's not for another two weeks.  silly boy.

tracking:

lunch:
mexican:  ??? pts

i haven't figured up the points for it.  i'm assuming it's all of them for the day.  which doesn't make me feel bad, i still have about half of my food left, so it will make a great dinner, too!

this is what's LEFT of my food.  dinner for me!

love, tiffers

marshmallow tea.

if your wondering about the title, apparently i made marshmallow tea today.

as a true lady of kentucky i cannot survive without sweet tea.  sweet tea mad the normal way is about 2 points or more a glass, and i don't like to drink my points.  so we switched from regular sugar to sun crystals.  it's a stevia and sugar blend, it's twice as sweet as table sugar and it's only 1 point for half a cup.  put half a cup in a gallon of tea (which has no points on it's own) and you have a 1 point gallon of tea.  since i never drink a whole gallon on my own (chris drinks it as well) i don't even count it.  i generally don't count things that are less than 1/2 a point, i only count 1/2 and up.

chris lately doesn't think the tea is sweet enough, so in the last gallon he added another serving of sun crystals and made the points go up (also, sun crystals are really expensive so i try to conserve them).  i was sad about this.  granted, i probably would only have consumed 1 point of the tea, i just don't like to drink my points. . .

so today, i made the tea as usual with the 1/2 cup of sun crystals and i poured in a little vanilla syrup (which the brand i have is 0 points), hoping to sweeten it up a little more.  it didn't smell any different, so i figured chris wouldn't even notice.

with his first sip, he asked if it was a different brand.

so i confessed to what i did to it.

and apparently it tastes like marshmallows.  chris said he didn't really like to drink  marshmallows.  i still haven't tried it, but i'll give you my opinion on it laters.

anyway, i hope i don't pay tomorrow for eating all of my weekly points.  i'm sure i'll finish them off today, i only have 21 or so left. . .well, maybe i won't finish them, i also have 10 activity points i earned today from cleaning and treadmill-ing.

my weight as pretty much been hovering in the same area the past few weeks, and it's starting to get on my nerves.  i've been doing much better about occupying myself in a way that's not just sitting on the couch, so hopefully that helps out

tracking:

activity:

housework, low impact, 60 minutes:  8 pts

lunch:

grilled cheese with bacon and tomato:  8 pts

progresso light chicken noodle soup:  4 pts

activity:

treadmill, moderate impact, 20 minutes:  2 pts

snack:
cookie:  2 pts
slim jim:  4 pts

dinner:
steak, macaroni and cheese, baked potato:  17 pts
extra steak:  5 pts

snack:
1 cup pudding:  4 pts

total used:  44

activity points earned:  10 

i need to make some sort of template for these blogs so i remember to give the information in the same way. . .i probably won't though.

MARSHMALLOW TEA EDIT:  it tastes like marshmallows.  i'm gonna dump it.

love, tiffers.

a yummy activity points day.

my granny's birthday party is tomorrow, so i came back home to my lovely family's house today!  i do miss my dude a little bit though (he had to work, so my daddy just picked me up)!  i haven't slept by myself in over a month!

anyway, spent some of my earned activity points today to have a yummy fun day with the family.  i'm gonna try to get it all down so i can keep up with them!

tracking:

lunch:

quarter pounder from mcdonald's:  13 pts

1/2 pastry:  4 pts

snack:

3 bananas:  0 pts

1/2 pastry:  4 pts

pringles snack pack:  3 pts

weight watchers string cheese:  1 pt

dinner:

chicken quesadilla, 2 tacos:  22 pts

total used:  47 (over 2)

activity points remaining for the WEEK:  12 pts

didn't earn any points today.  i'm not sure what to do when i'm not cleaning my house.  i did get really bored and pace around the living room for about 5 minutes.  i've gotten used to cleaning!  oh noes!

love, tiffers

more cleaning!

i'm taking a break from cleaning at the moment, though!

i've done my normal stuffs, but i keep seeing random spots on the wall that i think i'm gonna try to get off. . .i'm turning into such a house wife. . .my god. . .and i actually enjoyed folding laundry!!  granted, i was also watching spongebob, and spongebob makes everything better.  :P

tracking:

breakfast:

waffle with fat free whipped topping:  8 pts

coffee, regular creamer:  0 pts

activity:

90 minutes house cleaning (low impact):  +8 pts

ha!  i love how cleaning worked off my waffle!  i love that i can count housework as activity!  i know i keep saying that, but i really am tired after i do it and it makes it easier to get up and clean since i know i'm getting more benefit from it than just a clean house!

snack:
fruit with dip:  4 pts

a heart shaped bowl of fruits!  yum!  :D

activity:
treadmill, incline, 20 minutes:  +2 pts

lunch:
leftover monterey chicken (with bacon):  13 pts

dinner:
cheeseburger ranch mac and cheese (2 servings):  12 pts

snack:
pudding:  8 pts

total used:  46 pts  (over by 1)

activity points remaining:  9 pts (-1 to balance out)
activity points remaining for the WEEK:  14

a mad crazy cleaning day.

so considering we pretty much left chris's party where it was when we went to bed, i've been mad crazy cleaning for the past 2 hours! 

tiffers has:

-done two loads of laundry

-done the dishes

-cleaned the counters

-cleaned the glass tables

-moved my chair/mandy's bed back to the bedroom

-cleaned off the coffee table and put it back where it belongs

-vacuumed the entire house

-mopped all mop-able surfaces

-cleaned all three of my big bathroom mirrors

-cleaned both bathroom sinks

-got inside the bathtub and scrubbed

for two hours of low activity, the weight watchers activity tracker gave me 11 points!  i'm gonna go eat a guilt free 6 point cupcake!  go me!  :D

tracking:

breakfast:

1 waffle with fat free whipped topping and cinnamon sugar:  8 pts

activity:

mad crazy cleaning:  + 11

snack:
cupcake:  6 pts

my guilt free cupcake.  :D

lunch:
leftover waffle:  8 pts
fruit with dip:  4 pts

snack:
2 string cheese:  2 pts
bacon (while chris was making some for dinner :P):  2 pts
dinner:
monterey chicken:  11 pts

total used:  35
activity points remaining:  5

dinner was so good!  i actually opted to eat the piece of chicken without bacon (phil and i were snacking on it as chris was cooking it, so we ran out.  but how can you ignore bacon!?) so it was a few points less than the others.  i think the regular chickens were 13.  i was sad that we didn't have a side with it.  we were gonna have baked potatoes, but when i pulled the bag out of the pantry they were kind of wrinkly and soft. . .sadness.

anyway, finished the day with 10 pts left, but was super full!

love, tiffers.

maintaining blog.

again with the missing me, i know!  had a wedding to attend, a mini-sleepover at my parents, a mini-sleepover at my house for my dude's birthday, then a shopping trip today with the sister and another sleepover at the parents house coming up now since the weather has been kinda iffy.

since i have some, have some birthday food pictures!

mandy with chris's birthday fruit and veggie tray!

isn't it so pretty-ful!?

funfetti and root beer cupcakes!  yes, i said root beer!

surprisingly, chris, mandy and i did really well on points yesterday!  the cupcakes were about 6 a piece (some of them were extra fat and some were extra small), the fruits and veggies were zero (but we had ranch and fruit dip, they were both about 2 pts per serving) and pizza from snappy tomato (cheese was 6 pts, buffalo chicken was 7).  i was totally full, but i did eat a couple extra slices of pizza with my remaining weekly points just to indulge in some pizza goodness!

i won't track at you today, i've actually had a really bad day points wise.  we went out to eat at buffalo wild wings and we didn't check the points of anything before hand since we weren't sure where we were going to eat.  turns out chicken tenders there are 5 points a piece and my meal had 6 of them!  i spread it out over two meals, but with our appetizer and the side of wedges i went over my daily points by 13!  D:

luckily, today was the start of the new week, so i have the weekly points to cover it.  chris works 8 hour days all week, so this is probably going to be our only day eating out, so it should be fine.

as far as weigh in, i've been maintaining the past couple of weeks.  if you've seen the numbers, i had a massive weight loss of about 8 pounds in a week, so i figured it would be pretty slow after that.  i also haven't been treadmill-ing everyday because it's been really hard on my knees and back.  i've taken the mentality of 'just keep busy', so i clean a lot, random iPod dance around the kitchen (when i'm alone!) and just trying to keep my mind occupied and away from food.  plus the cleaning gives me activity points too.  so it's all good.

love, tiffers.

cleaning.

sorry it's been a few days.  pretty hectic, have a friends wedding tomorrow, i have some crafting to do for it!

anyway, i've been putting around mom's weight watchers account for a few days reading up on activity.  at the meetings, they basically said anything could count as long as you were moving.  i had my doubts on that, but i found a whole list of things that (if you do them long enough) count as activity!  so i've been doing double duty, cleaning my house and burning calories.  i try to do at least a half hour of active house work (sweeping, mopping, vacuuming and scrubbing things) a day, plus a shorter treadmill period.  the treadmill has been really hard on my back and my knees lately, but if i make sure to get in some extra activity in the day, i can cut my time to fifteen or twenty minutes on it and still feel good.

as it is, today i added a bunch of laundry and even for realsies made the bed today and got to a whole hour of straight cleaning.  i tried to even be conscious of where i was moving and i would go the long way around, anything to be moving.  i put it into the activity tracker and it spit me out 5 activity points!  even going on the treadmill for 30 minutes i would only get 4, so i'm actually ahead for the day.  i still may try to get my treadmill time in, but i do have a lot to do to be ready for tomorrow!  i need to craft another gift (mine was kinda lame, so i thought i'd make a little something more to go with it), i need to get my dress out and see if it needs to be cleaned, i need to do my nails, go to walmart and get a gift bag, a card and some pantyhose (and i guess i need to cook dinner at some point). . .

may skip the treadmill and walk an extra lap or two around walmart.  walmart > treadmill.

tracking:

activity:

1 hour house cleaning (low):  +5 pts

snack:
ww yogurt:  2 pts
ww cookie:  2 pts

lunch:
leftover ravioli:  8 pts

snack:
string cheese:  1 pt
ww cookie:  2 pts

total used:  15 pts

a still owchy day!

but not as bad, though.  takin' it easy helps a lot, so after cleaning yesterday i spent the day crocheting.  i hope to finish that project today as much as i can (even though it will be a headless kitty while i wait for his eyes to come in from singapore!) and start my granny's birthday shawl.  i freaking love to make things out of yarn, plus it keep my hands off too much food.  :P

it's weird, i've noticed that some days i wake up ravenously hungry, but other days i have some coffee for breakfast and it's just as good.  but it could be that i got the delicious creamer again so it's sweet and delicious enough to make up for food, but actually only really counts as a snack.  yum.  :D

breakfast:

coffee with creamer:  3 pts

lunch:
grilled cheese w/ buffalo chip'ins:  9 pts

snack:
cupcake:  6 pts

dinner:
enchilada casserole:  13 pts

snack:
5 cookies:  10 pts
coffee with creamer:  3 pts

total used:  44 pts

the family is coming tomorrow, so i'm glad i saved my weekly points for an awesome lunch!

love, tiffers.

an owchy day.

sorry i missed my little blogglette's yesterday.  was out and about with the dude while trying not to be in a horrifying amount of pain.

well, maybe not horrifying, but extremely annoying and made me a very grumpy tiffers.  D:  i think i've been working the treadmill too hard and it's made my back very owchy.  i'm taking the weekend off from it, hopefully that will help.

anyway, i won't track at you from yesterday, but it was a game shop day which meant yummy chinese food!  mmm, boneless spare ribs with white rice.  i wish i had some more!  the only downside to that was that i was hungry again when we got home, so i went over my points by 2 yesterday, so i have 47 weekly points left.

now, for today!

tracking:

breakfast:

coffee with coffemate vanilla caramel creamer:  2 pts (for 2 tbsp of creamer)

snack:
reeses peanut butter egg:  5 pts

lunch:
2 grilled ham and cheese sandwiches (wheat bread, 2% milk cheese):  12 pts

dinner:
small steak, macaroni and cheese, corn:  13 pts

desert:
4 sugar cookies:  8 pts
pudding, 2 serving:  4 pts

total used today:  44 pts

not bad.  i've been crocheting a kitty all day and i still feel bad about not getting on the treadmill, but i really don't want to do anything to make my back worse or it will take forever to go away.  and my family is coming to see me on sunday, i don't want to be all back hurt-y!  i did do massive cleaning today though, and with my back, vacuuming the house felt like a sooper work out!

love, tiffers.

my legs.

they hate me right now.

they've been hating me since i woke up this morning.  i would assume it's from that walk i took to the dollar store yesterday, but they didn't hurt yesterday.  only this morning.  sigh.  so treadmill today was extra suckish, so i cut out five minutes early.  but it's alright, i suppose.

tracking:

lunch:

leftover chicken, 2 garlic toast:  12 pts

activity:

treadmill, incline, 25 minutes:  +3 pts

snack:
2 garlic toast:  6 pts

dinner:
2 pork chops, corn:  13 pts

my back hurts like a freakin' bitch right now.  i don't know why.  every time i stand up my legs are just sore, but then i walk around and it turns into lower half pain.  i dunno.  i guess it was my walk yesterday, that's all i can thing.  gonna lay around and not move for a while, listen to the wind try to blow me away. . .

snack:
wendy's m&m frosty:  15 pts

think i'm gonna give my poor lower half a break and crochet all day.  :P

used up all my points today with that frosty, except for my activity points.  was craving ice cream tonight, don't know why.  oh wells.

love, tiffers.

a grocery day!

got so many awesome food type items at kroger today.  the store is closing, so all the perishable and frozen stuffs were 30% off.  so we got $90 worth of stuff for only $60, and it was good stuff!  of course, all the meat was gone, i bet people were waiting outside to get some meat!  but we got some frozen dinners, lunch meat, a pillsbury cookie treat (2 pts per cookie!) and some randoms.  pretty stocked up for the moment.  it's nice to have food.  :D

tracking:

breakfast:

2 slices cinnamon bread w/ cream cheese and 1/2 cup pudding:  7 pts

lunch:

three cheese ziti frozen meal:  8 pts

activity:
30 minute walk to the dollar store:  4 pts

it felt just like the treadmill, incline and all, so i'm counting it as 4 pts still.  after getting home i had a sad adventure of realizing that for some reason my key doesn't work and i had to sit on the porch for chris's dad to come rescue me.

so after being locked outside for awhile, i prepared this beauty:

baked chicken parmesan.  i'm waiting for a little bit to put it in the oven.  chris doesn't get off til eight.  granted, that's in about fifteen minutes, but it takes him a little bit to get home, especially if i need something (which i think some garlic bread would be awesome with this, so i think i need something).

more on this laters, once i actually get to eat it.

snack:
chicken strip (leftover from preparing dinner:  4 pts

dinner:
chicken parmesan:  11 pts
2 garlic bread:  6 pts

snack:
coffee with flavored creamer:  3 pts

(found out some of my favorite liquid coffee creamers are only 1 pt per serving!  i used 3 tablespoons in this cup, i actually probably should have only used 2.  it's a little sweet, but oh it's so good!)

leftover parmesan chicken strip:  4 pts
garlic bread:  3 pts

total remaining:  -1

at the moment.  i'll count my activity points, so i have three more left if i want to finish my pot of coffee, but i think i'm good.

a weekly points thought.

so even though your weekly points are still calculated for you to lose weight, i don't think i'm going to try this 'eating them' thing again unless it's a special occasion.  today is the first day of the new week and i gained 1 pound.  it's not too bad, but i think it's a combination of eating all those points and not getting on the treadmill everyday.  at least it's not a horrible irreversible number, i'm pretty sure if i stick to my treadmill this week it will be gone by monday (and hopefully a little more with it)!

i also recalculated my points with the last weight loss i had (still used todays number) and i went down one, so here's my first day at 45 points!

tracking:

breakfast:

1/2 cup cheesecake pudding and 1 apple:  2 pts

activity:
treadmill, incline, 30 mins.:  +4 pts

side note:  as far as activity points go, i don't actually add them back into my daily points unless i eat them, but i did earn 4 points that i can eat if i so choose.  i'll try to remember to give totals at the end of the day, sometimes it just kind of slips my mind.  D:

lunch:
2 cups chili with 1 serving cheese:  14 pts

snack:
1 cup pudding and 1 apple:  4 pts

dinner:
chili repeat!:  14 pts

snack:
cream cheese and crackers:  8 pts

total remaining:  2 pts

and i didn't use my activity points, so i actually burned something today instead of burning it off and eating it again!  yay me!

now it's sleepy time!  chris and i are gonna do a little grocery shopping tomorrow.  the kroger down the street from us is closing and moving to a new kroger right next store.  weird, i know.  but that means all sorts of perishable food that they can't move is gonna be on sale!  yay for poor people grocery shopping!  :D

love, tiffers.

a kitty and starting a new week.

brought my kitty home yesterday!  you can check my other blog for all the kitty-ness.  right now he's under the bed being scared, he's apparently terrified of the treadmill.

tomorrow is the beginning of the new week for me and chris, and this week is the first that i've really used my weekly points for things other than special occasions.  i think my biggest problem is that it's easter season, which mean cadbury eggs!  i was telling mandy how i bought four eggs at kroger the other day (a quarter each!), and i did good the first day i had them and only ate 1 (they're 4 points each).  after that, i left them on top of the entertainment center in my room, which was an awful idea, since the next day i ate one every time i passed by them.  if i had put them in the pantry where i wouldn't see them all the time, i'd probably still have some tasty treats left!

i've learned that if i put the food away i after i have a meal, i'm less likely to keep eating it.  i still have a notoriously bad habit of pan picking, if the food is still on the stove from dinner or something, i'll walk past it and pick at it until it's been put away.  so i'm getting better at putting things away and keeping the snacks out of sight, i have two bags of buffalo chipin's in the pantry and i guarantee if they were sitting on the counter they'd be gone by now too, but i guess out of sight out of mind works great when you're on a diet!

also, i recommend a water filtration pitcher over bottled water.  i never thought i'd say that, but the water is absolutely delicious, doesn't taste like rocks and doesn't fill my trash can up with bottles!  chris got ours cheap at walmart, like $18.  i just pour the water in my stainless steel zombie bottle, fill the pitcher back up and put it back in the fridge.  plus it only takes a few minutes to filter.  it's pretty sweet, just saying.

tracking:

breakfast:

2 slices cinnamon bread with 1/2 tablespoon cream cheese:  5 pts

activity:
treadmill, incline, 30 mins.:  +4

lunch:
3 pieces garlic toast with sprinkle of cheese:  11 pts

i'm actually just guessing on the points for the cheese.  the cheese was three points for 1/3 of a cup, which i probably used over all 5 pieces i made.  so the bread itself was 3 pts per slice, the cheese was 3 pts, the whole tray i made was 18 pts and i ate three of them. . .i dunno.  an estimation is sometimes the best we can get. . .was probably about 10 and 1/2 pts, but i hate half points, so i round up.  :B

snack:
another garlic toast:  4 pts

dinner:
5 chicken tenders:  25 pts
buffalo sauce:  0 pts

snack:
med. frosty from wendy's:  11 pts
20 oz sprite:  7 pts

went over my points by 12, but i still have a bunch of weekly points (actually still have 10 left, but i don't think i'm gonna eat those before they expire tomorrow)!

i got the frosty because i actually wanted a mcdonald's vanilla cone (only 2 pts), but they were closed.  and the sprite. . .i usually don't even want soda, but chris had a mello yellow and i'm just like gosh. . .yummy sprite.  it's weird that sometimes i just crave things i usually never want, just because i haven't had them!  i've had an unusual craving for chinese food, and i used to totally hate it, it's so weird!

love, tiffers.

blah!

so after about a week of being sick on and off, i'm finally up, treadmilling and cooking again!

i'm sad that i didn't go as long as i usually do on the treadmill, but every time i have to stop for a few days i always i have to start at about twenty minutes or my heart tries to pop.  D:  anyway. . .

i finally believe the scale, since on my lovely date night the other day i put on a dress i bought knowing that it didn't fit by a size or so, and it fits perfectly now!  hooray!  so i'm roughly the same size i was when chris and i first started dating two years ago, hopefully i can lose some more!

tracking:

lunch:

2 grilled cheese sandwiches, wheat bread, one with ham:  12.5 pts

cadbury egg:  4 pts

activity:

treadmill:  +3 pts

snack:

cadbury egg:  4 pts

dinner:
spaghetti w/ 2 pieces garlic toast:  16 pts
cadbury egg:  4 pts

snack:
sandwich:  6 pts

yes, i had three cadbury eggs today!  i would be ashamed, but i counted them and adjusted the rest of my food accordingly!  it's spring time, and thus, cadbury egg time!

points remaining:  0!

on monday i'm probably going to have to recalculate my points, sadness!  will have less points but also less fat, so whateves i guess.

love, tiffers.

a sickly sick blog.

sorry for not tracking at you guys.  i have been super sick the past few day, and still am at the moment, but at least my tummy is giving me a break from the toilet.

if you would like to be tracked at, my past couple of days have included powerade, crackers and soup broth.  my attempt at real food have all made me very sad.  D:

if you've check the numbers page, my last weigh in claims that i lost 8 pounds.  i don't believe that at all, but chris' weight seems accurate on the scale, so maybe it is.  i don't know.  i'm not getting my hopes up, but then again, mandy lost 8 pounds in a week before, too.  so i dunno, i don't feel like i've lost that much at all, but when i look up close at my face it does seem a little less pudgy.  i'm gonna wait until i see my mommy next week, she hasn't seen me all week so she'll be able to tell if some of my fat has ran off.

i guess that's it.  i've been sleeping and being sick all day, i think i'm gonna continue on that thread for a while.  supposed to have a date night with my dude tomorrow, but it all depends on if my food decides to stop turning  to complete liquid in my belly.

night all, stay away from rumbly tummy diseases!

wtf scale?

so, we got this awesome scale at walmart.  it's all nice and digital-y, it can save the numbers of two people and is nice and compact for storage.

only problem with this scale is that it refuses to weigh you if you sit it on the carpet, and sadly our bathroom is carpeted, save for a little square around the toilet that is way to small to do anything in.  so whenever i want to use it, i have to take it to the laundry room or the kitchen (if everybody feels like weighing that day.

it dawned on me today that i could keep the scale in the closet, since my closet is HUGE (yes, i will continue to brag about it because this closet is the king of closets) and isn't covered in fuzzy carpet.  

off to the closet i go.  the first time it came up really low, and i figured out it was because i was holding onto the closet rod to balance.  i let go of it and it shows me 'E', which means it can't find anything balanced on the scale. see why i was trying to balance there?  this thing can be a total douche sometimes.  after about five more tries to recenter myself, it finally gives me 279.5.  

now, i was just at the health department on tuesday, and weighed 284 point whatever.  i don't remember exactly.  but i find it quite unlikely that i lost like 5 pounds in 3 days.  not that that wouldn't be totally awesome.  but it's still highly unlikely.  

so i headed back to the closet to test this scale again.  after about ten tries i finally got 282.6, which is the only number that appeared more than once, so i am more inclined to believe it.  i consider it a loss for now, i'll check it again first thing in the morning to see what's going on.

love, tiffers.

leftover pizza day!

gosh, it's already so late!

i'd been trying to get out of bed since about 11, but chris is still sick with some sort of tummy bug, and i felt bad leaving him.  but at about 12:45 pm, i just had to get up, so i'll start the day with lunch!

lunch:

3 slices leftover pizza:  19 pts

yes, it's a lot of points, but it's breakfast AND lunch.  plus it's already 2 in the afternoon and i'm gonna have to start cooking dinner at 7!  and in between then and now is treadmill time, shower time, homework time and pokemon time, so i think it will be alright.  :D

activity:
treadmill, incline, 30 min.:  +4 pts

i don't remember the rest, i can see into the future and i will be very sick for the next few days.  D:

accidental omelet day.

did you know that you could accidentally make an omelet?  you can.  all you have to do is forget that you're making scrambled eggs and then then they get all omelet shaped.  i'll just remember next time not to cram it full of stuff so that it may flip properly.

look how ugly it is.  but it was delicious.

so yes.  if it looks like an omelet, just pretend that it was totally what you were going for and nobody will know the difference.  :P

tracking time!

breakfast:

accidental chicken and tomato omelet w/ cheese:  8 pts

lunch:
2 servings tater tots with cheese:  13 pts

snack:
low fat french vanilla latte:  5 pts

story break!  

dinner is in the making.  actually, mine is ready but chris is still getting his together.  feast upon it's 7 pt per slice (compared to papa john's, where a slice of just cheese is 15 pts!) glorious-ness!

look at it.  does your mouth water?

my dude made it for me.  :D

and that whole pizza is for me!  don't worry, i'm not eating the whole pizza, but chris wanted his with onions and the pack came with two crusts anyway, so two pizzas for us.  :P  i'll track it for you after i've consumed my fill.

dinner:
3 slices homemade pizza:  19 points

went over my daily points by 1, just because that pizza was so damn delicious.  D:

it was worth it.

love, tiffers.

i've missed you, food blog!

i didn't abandon you, you know i love my foods!

i'm finally settled in with the dude, just a few little things here and there that need to find a home in the house and a bunch of cardboard boxed that need to go!  i have to say i'm getting really into this house wife-y type of mood, i wish i could get a bunch of school money so i could continue enjoying it, but the job search must begin!

so, since this is a food blog, on to the food!

i have to say i'm actually really glad to have just maintained my weight the past week or so.  i was trying to arrange things, get stuff out, eating whatever was around but i still kept track as best i could.  i was afraid i had miscalculated since i wasn't really writing it or blogging it here, and that i would have gained, but it's been alright.

i've noticed in the last week that you get a lot more full and feel more satisfied when you cook your own meals.  i never thought i'd say that!  but i'm getting into the groove of cooking, i'm kind of making it up as i go along.  luckily i do have some cookbooks and i have mandy trying out new stuff at home, she always tell me if it's good. :D  i made some amazing lemon pepper pork chops the other night, chris and phil loved them!  the whole dinner was only 13 pts, and that was with two pork chops!  i was totally stuffed and i was so proud of my little meal.  :B

i guess the whole point is that now that i'm learning how to cook, i am enjoying it.  i'm sure i'll get tired of it eventually, but it really makes me happy when chris and phil compliment my food and that makes me want to cook more.  i wish i had some pictures of my awesome meals, i'll have to start doing that when it looks tasty.

my current favorite food is butterscotch pudding!  i eat it basically as a replacement to really expensive (points wise) and bad for you caramel dip.  a half a cup is only 2 pts (maybe less, the nutrition facts list it with 2% milk and i only use 1%) and apples are free.  i can eat two whole apples with that!  i get my fruit in and it's absolutely delicious!  i recommend it even if you're not dieting.  

but, i'll go ahead and track my day for you.

breakfast:

mexican-y scrambled eggs (leftover chicken from chicken tacos and eggs):  6 pts

activity:

treadmill, incline, 30 minutes:  +4

lunch:

tater tots with cheese and buffalo sauce, 2 servings:  12 pts

(sounds weird, but totally delicious!)

dinner:

leftover taco filling turned into taco salad:  12 pts

second helping:  7 pts

snack:

grilled ham and cheese sandwich:  7 pts

two points left and i still have a sweet tooth.  i may go for a yogurt later, though really wish i had some more pudding!

going to be another busy day!

have to pick up some stuff i'm gonna need on my own, like a blow dryer and a flat iron and all sorts of hair stuff! good thing i have a hairdresser sister or i'd forget all this stuff!  

also, have a million homeworks to do tonight.  i hate you, homeworks.  D:<

breakfast:

2 slices french toast with a splash of light syrup:  5 pts

weight watchers yogurt:  2 pts

activity:
treadmill on incline, 30 mins:  +4

snack:
bunch of fruit!! (covered about two snacks, 2 bananas and an apple):  0 pts

lunch:
mighty kids meal from mcdonalds:  15 pts

was that mcdonald's worth it, you ask?  it was!  it was just enough to enjoy it without feeling like a super piggy!  :D

dinner:
small steak:  4 pts
baked potato:  3 pts
2 corn cobs (small):  4

snack:
cinnamon bread and cream cheese:  5 pts

late dinner type meal:
smart ones fettuccine:  7 pts
leftovers:  3 pts

i used three of my activity points to eat that leftover little steak cuz i was so hungry!  oh well, that's what they're for, and i'll get 4 more tomorrow after treadmill time!

busy!

back again, after another annoyingly busy day yesterday!  sigh!!  my only goal for yesterday was a tiff nap, but no tiff nap was had, so i just slept in extra late today.  :P

had our weigh-in, lost another 1.6 pounds!  i'm still a little behind everyone else, but i'm not discouraged, as long as i lose a pound a week, that's 52 pounds in a year!  so i'm still going!

i was so tired yesterday though, and my poor feetsies were about to die!  grocery shopping for hours, standing in line, and then treadmill time.  then a shower and MORE shopping time!  i was soooo tired.  D:  today is going to be a packing day, just a few more days till i move in with chris!  i'm so excited!  :D

but here's some tracking for you!  i know you love it (except that you don't)!

lunch:

smart ones lasagna:  7 pts

cream cheese and crackers:  5 pts

snack:
2 bananas:  0 pts
1 cup coffee:  0 pts

activity:
treadmill on incline, 30 minutes:  +4

snack:
coffee:  0 pts
weight watchers muffin:  4 pts

dinner:
cream of chicken soup with rice (2 servings):  14 pts
banana:  0 pts

snack:
leftovers:  7 pts
2 string cheese:  2 pts

remaining points:  7!!  :D

free cookie day!?

sorry i didn't blog yesterday!  busy busy busy!  i'm moving i less than a week, there's so much to do!  spent yesterday with my dude, had to run to the post office on bugglette's business, took a walk in the park (so tired of the treadmill, it was a nice change!), stopped by target to pick up a three barrel curling iron (also known to me as a crimper, only round) since i couldn't find one anywhere else and then lunch.

now, let me tell you a lunch story!

after target, chris was getting hungry.  he's not a breakfast person, so while i had eaten a meal already today he had eaten a fiber one bar.  so i can see how after all the walking (30 minutes in the park and then about 45 minutes in target) he was pretty rumbly.  so we decided on subway.  doesn't seem like a bad choice, really.

when we got in, chris covered up a sign with his arms and told me not to look.  when i finally got to see it, it was an ad for the new raspberry cheesecake cookie.  and i was like, 'i got this.  i don't need a cookie.'  didn't even want or crave a cookie.  got me a six inch sub and some soup, got to the register and guess what?

FREE COOKIE DAY.

thanks, universe.  D:<

i bet the lady was freaked out by use, i bet our eyes got all big at the thought of free cookie.  we took the cookies, chris was saving his (since he has plenty of points to have a cookie) but i was going to save mine for bug.  after eating my meal, i realized i couldn't ignore it's raspberry deliciousness anymore.  D:  

so because of that six point cookie, i used up all my points yesterday. still didn't go over, but had nothing left.  D:  and lunch wasn't very filling, so i stuffed all my points in my face for dinner and then had a massive tummy ache.  double D:.

so anyway, on to tracking.

breakfast:  

scrambled eggs with leftover pork chop thing:  6 pts

snack:

6 crackers with cream cheese:  4 pts

activity:

treadmill on incline, 30 minutes:  +4

lunch.

smart ones chicken alfredo:  7 pts

snack:

apple cinnamon straws:  3 pts

dinner:
hamburger with cheese:  8 points
tater tots (3 servings)  12 pts

snack:
string cheese:  1 pt
plain hamburger patty:  3 pts

a hungry day!

for reals!  i'm always starving after treadmill time!

lunch  (woke up at noon, so no breakfast):

digiorno single serve:  5 pts

serving potato straws:  3 pts

activity:

treadmill, 30 minutes on incline:  +4 pts

lunch 2:

2 buffalo chicken wraps:  8 pts

serving potato straws:  3 points

still feeling hungry though!!  i think i'll just finish off the buffalo chicken. . .

a crafty day!

sorry no post yesterday!  it's super sucks not having my own computer.  damn those internet viruses!  i'll spend most of my time later putting up new hair bows on bugglette's, there's like a million of them!  i guess i should be glad i have dad's laptop, or nothing would ever get updated, but still. . .

anyway, i won't track at you from yesterday, but i ended the day with about 6 pts to spare.  :D

breakfast:

smart ones breakfast scramble:  5 pts

activity:

treadmill on incline, 30 minutes:  +4 pts

a side note on the treadmill:  it's getting so much easier!  i actually look forward to it now, since it's just me and my music.  :D  i do need some new music though, for realsies.  i'll have to go through chris's iPod the next time i see him.

lunch:

buffalo chicken wrap:  4 pts

healthy choice red pepper alfredo thing (SOOPER GROSS):  7 pts

snack:
24 fat free jelly beans:  4 pts

dinner:
2 buffalo chicken wraps, serving refried beans:  13 pts

snack:
24 fat free jelly beans:  4 pts
fiber one bar:  3 pts

side note about the jelly beans:  mom always used to have a bunch of candy sitting out close to easter.  she replaced all that candy with a single bowl of fat free jelly beans, but it's still hard to ignore them!  and they're all these cute looking fat beans.  D:  they're 4 pts for 24 beans, i only like the blue ones, so hopefully once they're gone i'll ignore them!

random meal:
smart ones three cheese ziti:  8 pts

2 pts left!

love, tiffers.

more about our weigh-in.

none of us had a great weigh in yesterday.  mom was down 1 pound, mandy totally maintained and i gained a little less than half a pound.  here is what i think happened to us this week.

we felt awesome.  we felt we were doing totally great and that we deserved some reward.  our reward was eating a bunch of stuff we couldn't count.  not even really that we pigged out, but that we ate out and couldn't measure our portions and we went without finding out points before hand.  

i didn't want to know the points that me and chris were going to consume on our anniversary, because i knew they would be bad, but i didn't think they'd be bad enough to ruin my week like they did.  we all went out with chris' parents (it was the first time my family had met them) and even though we didn't eat a lot we had no idea of the values of what we were eating.  so even though it wasn't a lot of food, it may have been more fatty than we had thought.

the chinese buffet yesterday was just a bad idea.  i don't even like chinese food, so i won't be sad if we don't go again.

anyway, it's not failure it's feedback.  as long as we learned something from it we are better off than we were before!

love, tiffers.

weigh-in yesterday.

so had a sort of bad day yesterday.  i guess sort of a bad week.  went to weigh-in yesterday and gained .4.  which is less than half a pound.  i know it's because of our little celebration time, but i was on that treadmill so much i though i could prevent it.  sigh.

then yesterday for lunch somebody (i think it may have been mom, actually) decided on the chinese buffet.  now, i don't even like chinese food, so i didn't eat too much, but it's all so high in point!  mandy said her meal was probably about 50 points, the lo mein alone was like 14 (luckily had i had no noodle-y dishes).  i had lots of little bites of random meats and chickens and then about half a scoop of white rice.  hopefully not too bad, but just to be on the safe side i ate fruit the rest of the day.  then pretty much just crashed.

i did still treadmill, though, and i looked it up in the pocket book and i actually haven't been giving myself enough points for it, should be 4 instead of 2.

but today is a new day.  had some breakfast and off to treadmill here in a bit, then work at 5:30.

breakfast:

mcdonalds fruit and maple oatmeal:  7 pts
string cheese:  1 pts

activity:
treadmill on incline, 30 minutes:  +4 pts

lunch:

2 buffalo chicken quesadillas:  9 pts
(whole wheat tortillas, 2:  2 pts each, half cup chicken:  3 pts, buffalo sauce:  0 pts, 1/4 cup cheese: 2 pts)

serving of baked doritos:  4 pts
(a serving is actually only 3 pts, but i was down to the crumbly bits so i may have had more, thus the extra point.)

mandy didn't finish her delicious buffalo wrap, so i had it too:  5 pts

snack:
mcd's ice cream cone:  2 pts
fiber one bar:  3 pts

dinner:
meatless chicken patty with cheese raviolis and marinara:  11 pts
corn on the cob:  2 pts

points remaining:  6 pts

more catch-up!

had yet another busy day yesterday!  today i have new class starting, some stuff to pack and some charms to bake, so i figured i should start the blog before i become too overwhelmed!

wednesday, 2/16

breakfast:

oats w/ peanut butter and banana:  6 pts (usually 8 pts, but only ate a little over half the bowl)

activity:

30 min. treadmill:  +2 pts

snack:

apple:  0 pts

dinner:

chips and queso dip:  8 pts

enchilada and taco dinner:  estimating about 20 pts, didn't have any figures for them.  D:

snack:

slice of leftover cake:  6 pts

total remaining:  about 8 pts

today, 2/17

breakfast:

smart ones breakfast sandwich:  6 pts

yogurt with cool whip:  2 pts

lunch: 

2 taco bell tacos:  8 pts

pintos and cheese:  4 pts
2 valentines chocolates:  2 pts

activity:
treadmill:  +2 pts

dinner:
baked potato with cheese:  5 pts
chicken:  5
sweet tea:  2 pts

desert:
fruit with cool whip:  0 pts

late snack:
smart ones pizza:  10 pts
valentines chocolate:  1 pts
sweet tea:  2 pts

remaining:  1 pts.

weigh-in tomorrow!  i'm nervous because of my off day (my tasty anniversary) but also excited because i've been working the treadmill hard all week!  in fact i think i've only missed one day and everyday i have done it has been 30 minutes and on the incline!  so even if i've only lost another 3 pounds i'll be a happy tiffers.  :D

a catch-up.

i haven't forgotten about you, blog, i promise!  my anniversary was on monday, so i've been very very busy!  i'll have pictures over at my other blog, but let me just catch you up food-wise, then treadmill time!

sunday, 2/13

this was a packing day!  oh, the packing we did and the things we packed!

breakfast:

smart ones english muffin sandwich:  6 pts

ww yogurt:  2 pts

activity:

treadmill:  30 minutes

lunch: 

2 buffalo chicken sandwiches (no cheese):  11 pts

snack:

apple:  0 pts

2 string cheese:  2 pts

dinner:

2 servings spaghetti with tomato sauce:  6 pts

late dinner:

smart ones three cheese ziti:  8 pts

and here, chris brought me an anniversary cake, and he loved me enough to find out the points on it so everybody could enjoy it.  to keep myself from gorging on cake until it was gone, i had two servings.

it was even a small cake.  :D

bad snack:

2 servings love cake:  12 pts

ended the day with 1 point left!  but i haven't craved cake since!

monday was our 2 year anniversary, and i don't have any points for you, except that i save all my daily point and all my weekly points and finished them off.  and i have to say i didn't feel bad about it!  it's my anniversary, we went to the cheesecake factory, and we literally go there only once a year!  on our anniversary!  i used up all my points, but don't think i exceeded them.  it was amazing and i love my dude!

tuesday, 2/15

i rounded all these points up because we weren't sure on the exact numbers.

lunch:

naked pizza, 3 slices:  18 pts

snack:

another slice of naked pizza:  6 pts

2 valentines chocolates:  2 pts

dinner:  

applebees asiago steak with steamed potatoes and veggies:  15 pts

snack:

yogurt with cool whip:  2 pts

1 valentine chocolate:  1 pts

ended the day with 2 pts to spare!

i'll start a new blog for today.

love, tiffers

good morning blog!

it's morning time!  and i'm awake!  i have to be to work at one, so i wanted some breakfast and maybe some lunch.  but at least some breakfast.  :D

breakfast:

smart ones ham egg and cheese on english muffin:  6 pts

yogurt:  2 pts

lunch:
smart ones chicken alfredo:  7 pts

snack:
apple:  0 pts
string cheese:  1 pt
mcdonald's ice cream cone:  2 pts

activity:
30 minutes treadmill:  +2 pts

ha ha, worked off that ice cream cone!

dinner:
2 buffalo chicken sandwiches:  13 pts

*breakdown:
4 slices bread:  8 pts
1 serving chicken:  3 pts
1 serving cheese:  2 pts
buffalo sauce:  0 pts*

17 points to go. . .even after those sandwiches i think i'm still hungry. . .gonna wait a little bit and decide on that. . .

decided i was still hungry and ate some soup.

worst decision ever.  apparently i was not hungry and was just craving soup, so now my tummy feels like it's full of soup and tea.  it's a very unpleasant liquid-y feeling, and i would like it to stop now.

final points remaining:  13.

a weigh-in day!

i've been out and about all day, so you just get one big post instead of a bunch of updates!

today was our second weigh-in, and i lost another 3 lbs!  yay!  that means i got a sticker.  and yes, i am proud of my sticker.  :B  i give all credit to the treadmill, and will just have to get used to the idea that i lose more weight by moving!  after weigh-in we bought some more delicious groceries ran some errands and got some tasty taco bell, then i got dropped off at work.  spent most of work pacing and folding shirts.  though i did buy myself an uber cute headband to wear on valentine's day (also know as mine and chris's second anniversary)!

i do want to point out on the taco bell outing, i was feeling awesome and i had the points, so i got a tasty chicken quesadilla and a taco.  it totaled like, 17 pts.  but after i finished my yummy chicken and cheese-y goodness, i was full!  i used to eat two of them and a taco when i would go!  and after just that one, i was full!  i guess i was more conscious about eating it.  i knew it was a lot of points and i wouldn't have another one for a while, so i savored every little bite and it was the best quesadilla ever!

and now, to tracking!

breakfast:

ww bar:  3 pts

bottle water

lunch:

chicken quesadilla:  14 pts

water

snack:

apple

dinner:

pasta bake with zucchini, tomatoes and cheese:  11 pts

snack:

apple

orange cookie:  3 pts

mcdonald's ice cream cone:  2 pts  

and still have 13 points to go.  that's even counting the fact that i lost a point today due to losing my five pounds!  my target points went down to 46, but it's all good.  :D

had a late late dinner, or fourth meal as taco bell would call it.

dinner:
smart ones fettuccine alfredo:  7 pts

2 pts left and was off to bed!

oats. :D

so i just learned that you can make oats delicious with the addition of peanut butter and bananas.  it's the only way (as far as i know)!  yesterday, i made the exact same packet of oats, they were maple and brown sugar to be exact, and they tasted like nothing!  they smelled delicious, but tasted like the tap water i'd used to make them!  gross!  i dumped them out and that's why i ate that leftover steak for breakfast yesterday.  D:

breakfast:

oats with peanut butter and bananas:  8 pts

i'm kinda rounding that figure, cuz i didn't use a full cup of milk (which is two points) but used more that a half a cup (which is one point).  and i hate counting half points.  oh, well.  i'm treadmill-ing today anyway, so if i didn't need to count that extra point i'm gonna get it back anyway.  :D

it's 1:30 and i just got done backing cookies!  Here's the recipe if you're interested.  they look really tasty.

look at them lookin' tasty.

but their actually only alright.  they have applesauce in the recipe, it does make them nice and soft but it also makes them taste like apples and chocolate and i don't know if i'm a fan of that.  and they're 1 pt per cookie, which doesn't seem bad but they're pretty tiny.  you can put the whole thing in your mouth and chomp it.  so i dunno.  prefer the meringue cookies.

snack:

one chocolate fudge bite cookie:  1 pt

activity:
20 minutes on the treadmill  :D

lunch:
grilled sandwich with potato straws:  10 pts
banana:  0 pts

packing day!

well, just one of many packing days.  but if i can pack up the little stuff then after my last day of work i can start cleaning up the big stuff!  i have so many little figurines, though, and i'm trying to dust them before i pack them up so i don't have to do it later, but it's taking forever!

on a side note that is actually diet related (since this is the food blog), i hope that it's easier to plan meals when it's just me and chris cooking.  i had an awesome breakfast plan for this morning, but didn't take into consideration that there are other people who wake up before me and who may also be hungry for the last three eggs.  so instead of steak and eggs, i just had the leftover steak.  D:

breakfast:

leftover steak:  5 pts

weight watchers yogurt:  2 pts

bananas:  0 pts

thank god for gwen stefani, she's the only reason i can spell bananas.

lunch:
smart ones chicken parmesan:  7 pts

activity:
15 minutes incline treadmill:  +1 pt!!

did you see me earn back a point!?  every 30 minutes of moderate exercise earns you two points!  i started trying to walk on the treadmill at the very beginning of the year and i could literally only go 10 minutes before i though my heart would pop!  i did fifteen today with no problem!  and i don't feel tired, i feel really good!  i'm gonna challenge bug to wii sword fighting!

(i could have actually gone longer on the treadmill, but i really had to pee!  that might be too much info for you, but it's true!)

totally kicked ass at sword fighting.  even if my opponent was a six-year old.

snack:
banana:  0 pts
2 meringue cookies:  1 pt

dinner:
2 servings chicken taco salad:  20 pts

and another banana!

snack:
microwave pizza:  7 pts

i think that's everything.  i'm too full of oats (considering it's the next day as i edit this!) to go get my journal. i ended the day with 2 pts though.

love, tiffers.

baking day!

just put in another batch of meringue cookies!  they are so good, nice and sweet and you don't have to feel bad about them!  

today i made a batch of vanilla and experimented and made a batch of maple.  they smell just like maple nut goodies!  it will be a nice taste of the pancakes that we can't have (even though i'd much rather have a waffle, but those are kinda off limits, too).

i know it's hard to tell, but these are
full of maple-y goodness!

so on to tracking.  i was pretty proud of my breakfast today, it tasted just like a meats scramble from denny's (only without the sausage, but i hate the sausage anyway!).

breakfast:

scrambled eggs (1 whole and 3 whites), with ham and cheese:  6 pts

was pretty tasty.  one of those points is also from the olive oil i cooked it in.  just about a teaspoon in the pan, but i think that's enough to count.  

lunch:
smart ones chicken carbonara w/ 2 slices garlic toast:  11 pts

snack:
4 meringue cookies:  2 pts
(those maple ones are DELISH.)
2 more cookies:  1 pt

dinner:
1/2 steak:  3 pts
baked potato w/parkay butter spray and cheese:  5 pts
1/3 cup alfredo:  3 pts
bug's leftover alfredo:  4 pts

snack:
bananas and light whip cream:  0 pts
smart ones pizza snacks:  7 pts

ended the day with 5 points to spare!

snow day!

usually a nice snowy day would make me want to curl up with a pack of cookies and then take a nap!  so today i'm trying to keep busy!

we've already been to walmart, picked out bug some cute new glasses (since hers have gone 'missing'), and had a tasty sandwich lunch!  since lunch i've been crocheting an awesome bear headband.  for realsies.

so on to the tracking!

breakfast:

weight watchers raspberry white chocolate yogurt:  2 pts

snack:  

6 crackers with single serve cream cheese pack:  5 pts

serving potato straws:  3 pts

lunch:

grilled ham and cheese on extra wheat-y and fiber-y bread:  4 pts

serving potato straws:  3 pts

dinner:
smart ones four cheese pizza:  10  pts

snack:
weight watchers ice cream bar:  4 pts

16 points to go, but it's one in the morning and i am way not hungry.

and by the way, i freaking love potato straws!  they taste just like potato chips, they're not nearly as greasy, and the serving size is HUGE (38 straws!) and only three points!  amazing!  i also love the apple cinnamon straws, also a 38 straw serving size, but i didn't get the points on those cuz i didn't have enough to buy them.  D:

oh well!  back to my bear headband!

BEAR HEADBAND EDIT:

hurr hurr i'm a burr.