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.

a shopping journey!

and of course some more tracking!

yesterday was an odd sort of day, much as i expected it to be.  chris was going to judge a tiny tournament, but when we got there they didn't need him.  we chilled for a little bit and ate our tasty subway lunch then headed down the street to the mall (and you know i love a mall)!  i really thought that all the running around would cause both of us to go over out points budget, but luckily we survived and both had a couple of points left over!  

that chicken dinner we had last night was actually supposed to be fajitas, but at the last minute both of us decided that the tortilla wasn't worth the 4 pts and we left it off.

as for today:

breakfast:

special k vanilla almond w/banana slices:  4 pts

apple pie ala mode weight watchers yogurt (delish!):  2 pts

lunch:
smart ones chicken parmesan:  7 pts
weight watchers ice cream bar:  4 pts

snack:
muffin:  4 pts

dinner:
smart ones lasagna:  7 pts
two slices garlic toast:  5 pts

snack:
6 crackers:  2 points
single serve tub cream cheese:  3 pts
ww pizza snacks:  7 pts

2 pts left!  i'm off tomorrow, so it's a crochet/wii day!

grocery shopping (and tracking)!

chris and i went grocery shopping at the walmart last night.  we had a list, and i think having a list kept us from buying junk.  it was all good stuff, and the things that weren't necessarily good stuff (like the marshmallow creme)  had their points checked before we bought them (only 1 pt for 2 tablespoons).  got a bunch of tasty weight watchers meals, some yogurts and even 4 pt ice creams!  yay!

i did snack on a slim jim, but turns out they're only 4 pts.  i personally find anything under 5 points to be an acceptable snack.  and it was yum.  :D

i was so excited to be grocery shopping with chris!  i can't wait until we're in our own place buying our own food.  not too long now, though!

breakfast:

scrambled egg sandwich w/ wheat bread and cheese:  8 pts

snack:
peaches (frozen kind) w/ lite cool whip and splenda:  0 pts

lunch:
subway low-fat buffalo chicken, foot long on flat bread w/ cheese:  22 pts

snack:
more peaches:  0 pts

dinner:
spicy chicken w/cheese:  10 pts

snack:
weight watchers ice cream bar:  4 pts
two meringue cookies:  1 pts

ending the day with 2 pts left!  didn't go over like i thought i would since chris found an awesome and delicious and healthy chicken recipe.  yum.  i love my chris.  :D

post weigh-in tracking!

felt pretty good after my weigh-in!  i was momentarily disappointed, but again, for five days of work that two pounds is pretty good.  :D

lunch:  

taco bell!

3 crunchy tacos:  12 pts

pintos and cheese:  4 pts

bottle water w/ blueberry pomegranate ocean spray mix:  0 pts

31 points to go!  think we've having grilled sandwiches and soup for dinner, and then of course my beautiful meringue cookies for dessert!

(hopefully they're beautiful, i don't have the best track record as a baker but i try really hard, dammit!)

EDIT:  they were totally beautiful and delicious.  :D

snack:
4 meringue cookies:  2 pts

dinner:
grilled tomato and mozzarella sandwich:  6 pts
spaghetti and tomato sauce (plus diced tomatoes):  6 pts
bottle water:  0

snack:
grande chai tea frappechino:  3 pts
two meringue cookies:  1 pt
small serving chili w/ no beans:  3 pts
slim jim:  4 pts


6 pts left, but pretty full.  still have a trip to walmart with my chris and we tend to just walk around aimlessly before we actually get our stuff, so i may have a snack craving afterwards, but we'll see. 

weigh-in and meringue cookies!

our first weigh in since joining was today.  technically we've only been doing weight watchers for five days (joined on a friday, decided to wait until the beginning of the week) but we're doing awesome!  i lost 2.2 pounds, which is more then i've ever lost while really not doing much of anything!  mandy (the bitch) lost eight pounds and got a special sticker.

i didn't get a sticker.  D:

oh well.  i'm not discouraged at all, that's still two pounds that i was carrying around five days ago!  and at out next weigh-in we'll have a whole week behind us, so i think we'll all do great!

i celebrated with a new wallet and some super sale hello kitty christmas ornaments for when chris and i have our own tree.  :D

we also had celebratory taco bell.  don't worry, we were still counting!  it was awesome, and i knew we could do it if we all stuck together.

right now i have some tasty looking meringue cookies in the oven.  i saw the recipe in the little weekly flier thing, and knew i could do it!  they have to bake for a million hours, i'll update you on their status as they progress. 

look at my little meringue cookies!  vanilla on the left and chocolate on the right.  hopefully they will equal yum.

love, tiffers.

EDIT:  done!

my cookies!

they're so cute!

the chocolate ones taste just like cocoa puffs, it's awesome!  and the vanilla is delicious!  i wanna make some more but mom told me no (even though they're only half a point each).

day 4 tracking.

tryin' to have breakfast and lunch before work.  is it gonna happen?  maybe.  but probably not.

breakfast:

peaches (in light syrup):  2 pts

weight watchers white chocolate yogurt:  2 pts

water:  0 pts

lunch:
leftover alfredo with chicken:  13 pts

snack:
chocolate chip muffin:  4 pts

water:  0 pts
vitamin water zero:  0 pts

dinner:
small steak:  7 pts
baked potato w/ butter and cheese:  5 pts
corn:  2 pts

snack:
granola bar:  3 pts

random hunger:
lean cuisine spaghetti and meatballs (plus tiny splash of weight watchers cheese):  9 pts.

went over by one today.  D:  i just wanted something hot to eat.

if you read the previous blog from this morning, you'll know this is definitely not what we had planned to eat, but i just couldn't eat that sandwich.  D:

side potato note:  our pocket guide says a medium baked potato is five points.  if i calculate the nutrition info on the bag of potatoes, one potato is three points.  but the bag also doesn't take into consideration if it's a tiny potato or a super potato.  i guess i should question somebody about that.

full for the day, but negative 1 point.

edit:  maybe not?  i put it in my tracker and was at exactly zero, unless i missed a point.  not sure.
edit again:  checked my journal, used exactly all my points today!  yay!

breakfast owies.

so, after yesterday when i didn't have time for breakfast and lunch before work, i tried to get early to them in.  i got up at ten (have to be to work at 1), still not really a lot of time, but everything is already made (premade breakfast last night and was gonna lunch some dinner leftovers) so i figured it would be alright.

last night we made some scrambled eggs with turkey sausage and put it in the fridge for breakfast, put in on some toast with some cheese.  i put the whole thing together, and as i'm looking at this sandwich my tummy is like 'noooooooooooo!'  i picked it up like i was gonna eat it.  my tummy was all 'grumblegrumblenoooooooo'.

mandy told mom in the car this morning that she was gonna puke.

normally, i'm just not a breakfast person.  i'm trying to get up early and do better, but it's just hard to make myself eat right when i get up.  it's easier when i just wake up when i want to eat food, but when that alarm goes off and i try to get up, my brain is just like, i'm tired and not hungry.  i dunno.

gonna try some peaches instead and see how that makes my tummy feel.  maybe i'm just a light breakfast girl.

love, tiffers.

ps:  i hid the sandwich in the microwave so i didn't have to see it anymore.

you stay away from me, sandwich.

not early enough. D:

so, i have to be to work at one.  sigh.

i tried to get up at ten, but when i thought about it some more, i'd have had to get up at about 8:30 or 9 to fit in breakfast and lunch.  and if you know me, you know that's just not happening.  decided to sleep in a little, had a less-than-one minute conversation with my dude ('i'm going to work, i love you.'  'i love you, have fun at work, bye.') and measured me out a tasty breakfast.

breakfast:

special k vanilla almond (2 servings, w/ 1 cup fat free milk):  4 pts

banana:  0 pts

may have some coffee in a minute, haven't decided yet.

snacks:
weight watchers blueberry muffin (at work):  5 pts.
chocolate chip muffin (at home):  4 pts
peanut butter chocolate granola bar:  3 pts
since i didn't get to have lunch, i've had a collection of snacks.

dinner:
weight watchers recipe chicken alfredo with garlic toast and corn:  20 pts

snack:
repeat of breakfast:  4 pts

7 pts remaining:  yays!!!!

think i'm done for day!

love, tiffers.

more learning. :3

today was a little different from yesterday.  as of the time i write this blog, i have seven points left as opposed to the nine i had left last night.  and i actually think i might eat them laters.

basically, we had bigger meals.  yesterday we were hoarding our points because we weren't sure about how the first day would pan out.  since we ate and we weren't hungry, we didn't eat all of our points like we should have and had extra at the end of the night.

i stopped by the store today to ask about the price of the notebooks (i did get one, only six bucks for a three month diary) and she talked to me for a few minutes.  everyone who works for weight watchers has done the plan and lost the weight, it's nice because that makes them more likely to care about what you're doing.  she asked about how it was going for me since we had just started.  i told her about my extra points and how i was trying to eat them, and she told me that it's pretty normal and that most people hoard their points in the beginning.  she told me to try to use all the points, but not to force myself to eat them if i'm absolutely not hungry.  so i feel a little better about it today.  :D

i noticed today that if i'm in a rush to eat something, i don't get nearly as much joy out of it.  i had a glasses emergency at work today and had to run to lenscrafters on my ten-minute break to fix it.  as i'm pretty much jogging down the hall i was stuffing my face with what is usually a totally delicious peanut butter chocolate quaker chewy granola bar.  i didn't even taste it.  the only taste i had of it was the very last bite i was trying to chew up outside of lenscrafters so i didn't have to talk to the lady with my mouth full.  D:

mandy and i had actually learned that on a weight loss show we watched a few years ago, about how if you eat more slowly and enjoy it more you're less likely to overeat.  if i had gotten to sit down and eat my delicious granola treat i may not have been so starving when i got home.  D:

oh well.  still a good day.  gonna go have me some music time then finish my homework for the night.

love, tiffers.

day two bein' all yummy. :3

so, currently making lunch, but here's my numbers so far:

breakfast:

whole wheat bread thin thingy:  3 pts

scrambled eggs:  2 pts

sliced ham (3 slices):  .5 (rounded to 1)

olive oil ( about 1 teaspoon):  1 pts
weight watchers yogurt cup:  2 pts

lunch (in progress):

mozzarella cheese:  2 pts

bread (2 slices):  4 pts

tomatoes:  0 pts

chicken noodle soup:  2 pts

6 crackers:  2 pts

snack:
weight watchers blueberry muffin (DELICIOUS!):  5 pts
granola bar:  3 pts
bottle water:  0

dinner:
2 tomato and mozzarella sandwiches (the same from lunch):  13 pts
bottle water:  0 pts

midnight snack/meal:
weight watchers meal, ravioli florentine:  6 pts

random dinner note:  i added an extra point for the olive oil i sprayed on the bread.  i didn't count on lunch because it was only like 2 or 3 sprays, but it was more for 2 sandwiches so i counted it.

total remaining:  1

note:  i am so proud of my little lunch!  you have to understand, i do not cook.  hardly ever.  in fact it was previously decided that chris would cook and i would do dishes.  :P  

i don't know, it probably sounds silly, but i really am proud that i was able to make a decent lunch for me and mandy.  my domestic skills are improving now that i have to do them!  

stay tuned for more!

findings for day 1.

so, what have i learned today?

well, i went into this diet like all other diets, i assumed that i'd be hungry all day long.  i thought i'd be running out of points and be struggling to find the tiniest amount of points to eat so that i'd have some left at the end of the night in case of hunger pains.

as of right now i still have nine points left.  so, i actually didn't eat enough today.  looking back at what i've eaten today i should have had bigger meals.  i only had 2 points for breakfast, the stuff we had to read actually recommended breakfast to be about 8 pts, so i should have had some more tasty breakfast noms!  i could have had some tasty cheese on my scrambled eggs, maybe even a nice slice of toast!

for lunch, we're recommended about 14 pts, i only had 9.  dinner should be about 16 points and i only had 11.  most people would be like 'yeah, less food less fat!', but really undereating affects your metabolism just as much as overeating.  if you looked at my tracking blog you'll notice after dinner i started stuffing my face because i still had 18 points left for the day, and i tried to use them up but i'm just not hungry anymore.  D:

i'll try again tomorrow with bigger meals, hopefully that will help me even out my points so i don't have this giant surplus at the end of the night.  after all, it's only day one so it's still a work in progress.  i didn't at all have a bad day, but i've still felt like a piggy eating all these snacks!  i know it's okay to eat them because i still have the points, but still.  piggy central.

tomorrow mandy and i are getting up early to make sure we have a good breakfast and lunch before we have to go to work.  should be tasty and awesome.

love, tiffers.