Sunday

Sometimes you just got to have the things you want - even if it takes a lot of your daily points! I guess that's what those 49 weekly points are for, right?

Breakfast

2 cinnamon bun pancakes w/ about a tablespoon of the icing: 13

I used this recipe w/ a few substitutions. Calculated it on WW online. We got about 10 small pancakes from this.

This was seriously delicious and indulgent but now I only have 10 points remaining for the day! This is probably why I stayed so heavy for so long. I never used to think about the fact that because I indulged in one part of my day that maybe I should go light for the other two meals. Now I do. This is a big change for me. BIG!

Lunch

Two venison tacos leftover from the other night w/ shredded cabbage (we were out of lettuce), grape tomatoes and about a tablespoon of sour cream (full fat)

taco shells: 3
meat: 2
sour cream: 1

Total: 6

Snack

About 12 almonds

Total: 2

Dinner

Insalata Fiorucci -- Artichoke hearts, roasted red peppers and grilled eggplant in vinaigrette,
topped with a hazelnut goat cheese medallion at Carrabba's w/ a pomegranate martini.

I found the nutritional information for this here.



I have no idea how to accurately calculate this but it was such a treat since I never buy eggplant or artichokes - no one here but me likes stuff like that - and I was with a friend. Ate almost every bite except some of the cheese.

Let's say the drink was about 5, the bread about 3 and the salad 8.

About one slice of their bread w/ some of the olive oil dip. My friend helped me from eating the whole basket and asking for more. ;) She's great like that.

Estimated total for such indulgence: 16

Oh, and then I came home and ate one of these:


They are 3 points and really good.

Total for the day: 46 WWP+

So I have no more weekly points left but did meet all my requirements for liquids, healthy fats, vegetables and dairy and then some! Ha!

Saturday

So I didn't make the preacher cookies last night. Whew! Success.

I was inspired and motivated when I got up this morning and was down nearly three pounds. Not sure how that's possible but I've definitely been tracking more and drinking a lot more water so maybe? I was 176.4 according to my scale which is very close to accurate with the scale they use at my meetings on Thursdays at Weight Watchers.

We had a busy morning! I walked the track at the gym for 35 minutes while two of my daughers did gymnastics. Lots of fun to watch them from above. Then we walked five blocks to watch the St. Patrick's Day parade. It was a good time but I'm totally exhausted.

(That's not me, those are leprechauns!)

Breakfast

1/2 cup non-fat plain Greek yogurt - 1

1/2 a granny smith apple, chopped

1/2 a cup blueberries

1 clementine

1 T flax - 1

1 piece of rye toast-2

1/2 t butter - 1

Crystal Light kiwi strawberry pure fitness water 16 oz

Total WWP+: 6

This breakfast fulfills 3 servings of fruit, 2 liquids, and I count the flax as a healthy oil even though it's a seed really. Need to check on that to see if it's a fact.

Lunch

Grilled chicken sandwich from McDonald's w/ lettuce & tomato. No mayo. Wish I'd had some honey mustard or something for it. It was crazy in there though and I didn't want to go back up to ask for some. Tossed about 1/3 of the bun. Way too much bread.

This sandwich is 9 points on WW but I'm deducting 2 points for the bread I tossed: 7

A few of the kids' fries: 1 (counted as 1/8 of a small fry)

Drank water (20 oz)

Total: 8 WWP+

Snack

String cheese: 2

1/2 an apple

clementine

Total: 2 WWP+

Dinner w/ cocktail AND dessert (sort of)

3 venison tacos w/ lettuce, tomato and real sour cream (about a tablespoon total)

Made 10 tacos w/ 1/2 a lb. of meat so I'm counting this as 3 oz of meat

3 El Paso taco shells: 4

3 oz venison: 3

1 oz cheddar shredded: 3

Vodka (1 shot): 4

w/ Sierra Mist (4 oz) and a squeeze of lime: 1

1/2 a piece of the peanut butter fudge from Christmas that we found in the back of the freezer when the kids turned off the thing and we had to clean it out: 2

Total for dinner: 17

Total for the day: 33 WWP+

I'll update with a dinner picture tomorrow and I'll tell you if I ate anything else. ;) I'm not hungry so that's a good sign. Maybe I should go to bed at 8:30 p.m.

Ok, total for the day 38 WWP+ after the husband handed me one of these and I couldn't help myself. Damn it. Good but not worth 5 freakin' points!