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.