Tuesday

Today was cold and all I wanted to do was eat and drink hot stuff to make me warm. Successfully avoided Starbuck's saving myself money and enough points to waste on half a candy bar a kid begged me for.

I had planned to walk for an extra 30 minutes at the gym after the weight lifting class but couldn't talk myself into it. Forgetting music in the car was my excuse.

Breakfast (5)

Banana

Coffee w/ milk - 1

2 hard boiled eggs - 4

clementine

Snack (2)

12 almonds - 2

Lunch (13)

Subway turkey/ham sub on wheat w/ tons of veggies, a small amount of shredded cheese and a little vinagrette: 11

OK, so I ate the 6" one on the way home. Starving! Then came home, dumped the nasty Subway bun and put it on two thin slices of artisan bread and put it in this thing with that stuff.

Shoved the veggies back into it and YUM!

Chai w/ 1 tsp agave + 1 T whole milk: 2

Dinner (8)

1 cup minestrone soup w/ sausage and black beans added - 5

Bear Creek soup mix w/ 1/2 a can of black beans, 1/2 lb lean sausage browned, 1/2 a large can of tomatoes

Soup by itself is 3 WWP per cup.

1 piece of bread - 2

1/2 t olive oil - 1

Anytime (6)

WW Latte ice cream bar - 2 (haven't actually eaten this yet but I plan to)

1/2 a candy bar - 4

AFTER DINNER UPDATE: Damn it! I was starving and blew it on 2 T p.b. & one piece of wheat bread and didn't look up the points first. 8 freakin' points!!!

Total for the day: 42 WWP

Activity (4)

Body Pump class at the Y: 4

45 minutes

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!