New Years Eve Eve!

We had a nice active day today!  We went shopping looking for skates for myself the took the girls skating!  Doesn't sound too labour intensive, but with two toddlers that insist on being carried all over the mall then hauled into and out of the minivan 6 times, it's quite a workout!

Hockey skates because they're more supportive on my bum ankle!  I got pretty pink laces that clash with my red coat!  Oh well!

I did find skates and we went and strapped them on to take Lara out for the very first time on her little "bob skates"!  We had a great time!  I haven't been skating since I was a teenager and I was a little unsure on my feet, but I didn't fall!  It actually felt great to be out there!  Hubby and I vowed we would go skating one night, just the two of us to shake the dust off!

Lara was a little natural!  I think her small frame is made for figure skating.  It's a sport where her small stature would be an advantage!  She said a couple of times "This is fun!  I'm not scared Mama!"  She even ventured out on her own a couple of times in the circle!

We had such a great time!

Tom looks like a giant beside Lara!

Zaryah was VERY jealous standing behind the boards so we brought her out for a turn around too!  Thank goodness bob skates are cheap!  Looks like we'll need a second pair!

So I have a confession to make... I've kinda been purposefully sabotaging myself the past few days.  The home scale has been dropping quite a bit and I'm only a pound or so away from getting the 75 pound medal at my weight watchers meeting.  I really don't want to get it while I'm just at the weigh in center!!!  So I've been trying to keep my weight the same so I can have a big loss and earn my medal in my home meeting the first meeting back after the holidays!  I choked down seriously drooled over enjoyed fish and chips at lunch today!  I even made my fries a poutine!  (For you non-Canadians that's fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy, so good!).  The problem with this...  Halfway through skating I had THE WORST gut cramps!  And it was all I could do to hold it in until I got home and to the bathroom!  I ended up in that state 4 or 5 times this afternoon!  So all was probably for naught.  So if I lose enough and earn the medal, I'll just refuse it and ask for it at my meeting on the 8th.  I don't know why I didn't think of that a week ago!  Lol!  Oh well!  I enjoyed my vacation!

Breakfast

Oatmeal
12 almonds
A banana

Snack

English muffin with egg, cheese and ham.  From Tim Hortons

Lunch

Battered and fried Halibut
2 tbsp tartar sauce
Poutine

Snack

1 Twix piece

Dinner

WW's recipe - Chicken with broccoli in Garlic sauce
1/2 cup of rice

Snack

Orange

I'm back full swing into lose it mode!

I did my best at keeping things healthy over the past week, but did indulge quite a bit too.  We had a date night on Saturday night last week and went to our local pub to see friends play a gig.  I had pub food twice that day and a few drinks.  As you can see on my weight tracker below on the 22nd to 23rd.  I certainly enjoyed myself!  Sunday and monday the 23rd and 24th I was back on plan but didn't track.

All bets were off of course on the 25th and 26th.  I think I had half a pound of bacon Christmas morning and ate so much at my mother in laws that I couldn't sit down for fear my gut would split open!  I was marginally better on the 26th, lol!  

By thursday the 27th I was ready to get back on plan and did a pretty good job until we ended up at Wendy's for dinner.  I had a bacon deluxe and fries.  I so rarely get to Wendy's and they have my favorite burgers, so I had to have it!  Yesterday had a bit of trouble totally kicking the treats to the curb!  I did well but had a mid afternoon treat, a lot of Shortbread, 3 Ferrero Rochers and a Toffifee later and I think I'm done!  

This week was so insanely busy.  I'd intended on blogging daily again as of Thursday but it just didn't happen.  My pelvis and right leg are giving me a lot of fuss for not resting and that isn't helping the situation at all.  Thankfully I'm now on vacation and have the next 9 days to relax!

I got gift cards for clothing stores from everyone who gave me a gift this year, lol!  I guess I need new clothes!  Everything I have is from the thrift store.  I think I'm going to hold onto the gift cards though until I lose a bit more.  Remember my last time shopping for clothes?  Didn't go so well!  I think I'll go back to the thrift store soon and see if I can spend my VISA gift card there.  I do need new bras too.  I used to get those at the plus size store, but I'm now too small for their smallest chest size.  So I'm going to have to look around a bit for those...  

Everywhere I turned  I was getting "Holy cow you look fantastic!"  I felt like a million bucks the whole time!  Obviously I've changed quite a bit since last Christmas, I've lost 60 pounds since then and the majority of Tom's family hasn't seen me since last Christmas, so I was expecting they'd notice, but it still felt amazing to get all of the compliments!

I didn't get any good pics of me on Christmas, I was the one holding the camera!!!  So here's as good a comparison as I can get!

 Last year at 233 lbs

This year at 173 lbs!

Breakfast

Oatmeal

12 almonds

an apple

Lunch

Chicken breast on a whole wheat wrap with lettuce, cucumbers and tzatziki

lots of fruit

Snack

Grapes and pineapple

Dinner

2 oz roast beef

5 oz ham

1/2 cup mashed potatoes

green beans

1/4 cup corn

salad

1 tbsp balsamic dressing

snack

gingerale 12 oz

1.5 oz whiskey

2 hershey candy cane kisses

1/2 cup rice pudding

A dieting foodie at Christmas? Is this fair???

I'm hemming and hawing about not tracking and indulging a little bit through the holidays.  Part of me thinks I need to avoid everything and try to lose as much as I can over the holidays, the other part of me thinks I need to loosen up a little.  I've lost 80 pounds and I'm not going to gain that all back in the next week.  If I gain a little, is it really a big deal?

My mood is starting to turn with all of the avoiding I've been doing and I'm not sure I've been doing the right thing.

I haven't had ANYTHING Christmas 'junk' related yet this season.  And I'm starting to be bothered by it.  Today we had our Christmas party at work.  We ordered in from Swiss Chalet (A popular rotisserie chicken restaurant in Canada) and I had a chicken breast and a salad.  I didn't get the "festive special" that everyone else had, no stuffing, no roll, no chocolate truffles, honestly I felt left out, like I was missing something.  I vowed at the beginning of this journey that I would never let myself feel deprived!

I'm thinking about turning in the tracker until Thursday next week, eat normally (healthy) most of the time, but still enjoy a few alcoholic beverages, some home made shortbread, gravy on my mashed potatoes, you know, enjoy Christmas.  Once boxing day is over life will return to normal here.  Can Christmas still be about the food?  I'm a bit down at the prospect of never being able to truly be the foodie again over the holidays!  Is it possible to balance healthy eating and common indulgences over the holidays?  Why, all of the sudden, am I doing the all or nothing thinking?  Haven't I always preached about not denying myself of anything?  All in moderation right?

Am I crazy?  Am I going to regret this decision in a week?  Is it going to derail me and I'll gain all the weight back because I never got back on the wagon?

In all likelyhood, I'm going to revert to fresh fruit, pile my plate high with veggies, eat a few sweets then be too full to pig out, lol!

I think I am going to put away the tracker for a few days and take the pressure off of myself.  After all, I'm NOT 250 pounds anymore and my brain works differently than it did a little over a year ago.  Chances are I'll gain a bit on monday then have lost it all by the 31st.  Cuz that's what I do, lol!

I likely won't be blogging as much over the holidays, but I'll check in here and there.  I PROMISE to get back to my food blogging on the 27th!  You can hold me to that!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Quick post. Busy busy!

But not too busy to post my meals for the day! Crazy busy at work today, I didn't even get an afternoon snack!

I wasn't too busy to get cuddles with my newest niece Aurora. I didn't get a picture though :/. I'm her Nurse and will try tomorrow for a pic when they bring her into my work for her first visit!

Breakfast

Oatmeal
12 almonds
A banana

Snack

Fat free Greek yogurt

Lunch

Lean cuisine (I was desperate for something healthy and I was on the run from physio on my lunch hour!)
An apple
A cheese string

Dinner

A quick date with my hubby while my sister stole the girls!
Kelseys
-broccoli cheddar soup
-garden salad
-balsamic vinaigrette
-6 pieces of pita wedges
1/4 serving spinach dip
1 spare rib with BBQ sauce

Weigh in day

Weigh in was tonight and I'm down 0.8 lbs!  Making it a total of 80.2 pounds lost!!!  I didn't get my 75 pound medal at the meeting tonight, missed it by 0.8 lbs :(  Another girl in our meeting is really close to 50 pounds lost and we both decided that it'll be a great inspiration to all of the post New Years newbies to see some people celebrate big milestones just after joining. :)  Our next meeting isn't until January 7th, because, meeting being on Tuesdays, we'll miss the next two because of where Christmas and new years fall.  I know I'll probably earn the medal on Monday when I weigh in at the centre, but I'm going to hold off getting the medal until I'm at my "home meeting" on the 8th.  That group has helped me get where I am, I want to celebrate with them!

Work is getting absolutely ridiculous!  Only 4 more shifts of patient presents!  Here's only a mere sampling of their generosity!  I've had none of it still by the way!  Although those Reese clusters might break my resolve!  Oh!  Those were given to me by one of my Diabetic patients!  Seriously people!

So I did the unthinkable after weigh in tonight.  I had a Big Mac and fries for dinner!  Gah it was so good!  Now you may think this is a bad excuse for justifying eating it, and maybe it is, but sometimes I find having a big calorie full meal makes me drop a bunch of weight after.  As if it's a re-set.  I was bummed this week for having only lost 0.8 after a 0.2 gain last week and I'VE BEEN SO GOOD!  Not even a toe out of line!  It was actually my hubby that said I needed a reset meal.  He's seen this happen a few times and suggests it when I'm getting down about my losses.  Maybe it's just the "feel-good-ness" (endorphins) of the binge or maybe there really is something to the whole reset the system theory, but either way, it'll probably work and I'll have a good loss next monday!

That all being said, NOTHING is off limits remember?  So there should be no guilt to be had over my dinner tonight, Right? :P


Breakfast

Oatmeal
12 almonds
1 cup grapes

Snack

Fat free greek yogurt

Lunch

1.5 servings triscuit thin crisps
1.5 servings low fat marble cheese
1/2 cup raspberries
2 cups salad with veggies
2 tsp balsamic vinaigrette

Dinner

Big Mac
Medium fries
A few sips of coke

Snack

Home made turtles fudge!  (hey, go big or go home!)

It'll be a quick post tonight! I'm exhausted! Zaryah was up often last night, restless with a fever. So needless to say, Mama didn't sleep.

I'm fully into a cold too right now. So I'm going to bed! Weigh in tomorrow!

Breakfast

Oatmeal
12 almonds
An apple

Snack

Cheese string
Grapes

Lunch

3 slices Black Forest ham
Lettuce
2 pieces of bread
1 tsp light miracle whip
1 tsp mustard
2 cups salad
1/2 tbsp balsamic vinaigrette

Snack

Fat free greek yogurt
Apple

Dinner

8 nick flour tortilla
1/4 cup pizza sauce
1.5 oz low fat marble cheese
1/3 serving chorizo shaved sausage
1/4 red pepper
3 mushrooms sliced

Snack

Mini granola bar

Lazy sunday

Man! Sundays always go too fast!

We had a lazy day today, but I did manage to get the rest of the stocking stuffers and groceries done!

This is how I spent a lot of my time tonight.

Thankfully I'm skinnier than I used to be!  We'd never have fit on the couch!

Early to bed for us sickos tonight :)

Breakfast

Oatmeal
12 almonds
a cup of grapes

Snack

Greek yogurt

Lunch

Fried egg sandwich
-1 egg
-2 pieces of toast
-1 tsp butter
-1/2 tbsp ketchup
1/3 of an english cucumber
1 oz heluva good dip

Snack

An apple

Dinner

Steak fajitas
-3/4 an 8 inch flour tortilla
- 4 oz steak
-fajita sauce
-2 tbsp light sour cream

Snack

Home made turtle fudge (maybe)

Lack of post yesterday

Sorry for the lack of post yesterday, it's pretty busy around here!  And with sick kids, I didn't even see my macbook yesterday!

Friday night Tom and I went out to a Christmas party/fundraiser.  I got all prettied up, hair trimmed and styled (haven't gone to a hairdresser in 16 months!).  We went out for dinner at Milestones, then ran around looking for something nice for me to wear, I found the shirt at Value Village for 5.99!  I got the shrug for $14 at walmart and the necklace and earrings as well at walmart for $14.  Pants are new too!  Also from walmart for $20, but those I'll wear at least twice a week for work :)  I looked fantastic if I do say so myself!  My hair looked better at the beginning of the night, this was taken at 2am!

The party was fun, I had a couple of drinks but drank water the rest of the night.  There was a huge assortment of food, lots of treats and I didn't have a thing!  I told myself that to enjoy Christmas day, I need to abstain leading up to it.  It's working!  I'm not feeling like I'm missing out either, I KNOW what I'm looking forward to having on Christmas and I'll have earned it by then!

This party was a fundraiser for Food For Life.  A charity that brings nutritious food to hungry people in the area and they had prize tables with all sorts of stuff, we ended up winning a date night!  2 tickets to a local hockey game and $100 gift certificate to a pub!  Sweet!

We got home around 2am and didn't get to sleep until around 3-3:30am.

We were woken up by a call from my sister, Lara was sick.  So off I went to go pick up my little ones.  We spent the morning cuddling, after learning about the tragedy in Connecticut, I was happy to be losing sleep doing just that for my kids!

We did manage to get out as planned and took Tom's Grandma Christmas shopping.  She took us out for brunch at Cora's, my favorite breakfast place!  They give you a TON of fruit in your meal.

This is what I had.  So good!

We managed to get our Christmas shopping done, both kids had naps in the car while I ran from store to store to pick up things.  

I've eaten every meal out in the past two days, but have been totally on plan, yes it can be done!  Snacks just didn't happen, but I wasn't that hungry, looks like I'm getting sick too :(

Here's yesterdays food diary

Breakfast

Everything bagel with herb and garlic cream cheese

Brunch

1 poached egg on toast

1 tsp butter

1/2 cup cottage cheese

A boatload of fruit

Dinner

Sweet onion Teriyaki on flatbread from Subway with lots of veggies

Quick update

Our evening out was certainly shadowed by the terrible events of today. I'm laying in bed missing my girls who are having a sleepover at my sisters :(

My heart hurts for the families of those poor babies killed! God be with all of them!
I'll tell you all about our night tomorrow.

Breakfast

Oatmeal
12 almonds
A pear

Snack
Fat free Greek yogurt
Raspberries and grapes

Lunch

Small turkey ham and bacon sub. Whole wheat with green peppers, cucumbers, lettuce, cheese and sub sauce

Dinner

4 oz steak
Caesar salad
Mixed veggies
A handful of sweet potato fries
4 oz ginger ale
1 oz whiskey

Later
8 oz gingerale
2 oz whiskey

On the ball

Remember a few weeks ago I made a decision to disclose everything that goes in my mouth on here, to hopefully curb the extra snacks that had snuck into day to day eating.  It's been working!  I've been doing very well this week avoiding the pre Christmas bingeing.  Especially at work!  I've told myself that if I want to enjoy myself on Christmas day and boxing day, I need to restrain myself leading up to it.

I work in a doctors office as a Nurse.  Patients feel obligated to give us Christmas presents and it's usually food!  Baked goods, candies, chocolates of all forms, wine, fruit baskets, coffee and donuts, I even got a gift card for a dinner out!

One of the dozens of gifts!

So of course I'm proud of myself for abstaining!  I haven't even had one jube jube!

Tomorrow we have a Christmas party to go to tomorrow and that will be the real test to my resolve.  We'll see how it goes!

Tonight I'm treating myself to a "planned treat".  My last butterscotch pudding :)



Breakfast

Oatmeal
12 almonds
Pear

Snack

Cheese string
1 cup raspberries

Lunch

Egg salad sandwich
1 1/2 cups cauliflower
1 oz heluva good dip

Snack

Fat free greek yogurt
Apple

Dinner

3 oz chicken, dark meat and skin
1/2 serving green giant savory garlic pasta and veggies
2 cups salad and veggies
2 tsp balsamic vinaigrette.

Snack

1 cup grapes and raspberries
Butterscotch pudding
Mini granola bar

busy day = back pain :(

It's really fricking busy at work right now.  Between every other patient coming in with a cold or flu, everyone else feels the need to visit the doctors (or Nurses) office before Christmas.  It's like they panic when they hear we're going to be closed for two days!

So when it gets busy, I get busy.  Very busy.  And when I have to sit for longer visits my back starts to act up.  My physio's solution is to stand for all of the visit, lol!  Right!  Then my ankle will hurt!  I just can't win!

I'm counting down the days until I get some much needed time off, then hopefully things'll calm down in the new year.

I was alright eating today, dinner was fish and chips, but I weighed it out, only giving myself a reasonable portion points wise.  5 points of fish (battered and fried of course) and 4 points of french fries.  I finished it off with a big salad.  It was the perfect way to do it!  I had a taste, but didn't get the full of fatty food bloat!  Or guilt!

Here's how the rest of the day went.

Breakfast

Oatmeal
12 almonds
a banana

Snack

cheese string
grapes

lunch

Shepherd's pie

Snack

A pear
fat free greek yogurt

Dinner

3 oz battered and fried halibut
2 oz french fries

Snack

grapes

But baby it's cold outside!

This morning I had to get the girls over to my brothers to be babysat again. It was so cold this morning! I had to get them all bundled up, coat, hat, mitts, the whole nine!  It was a bit of a struggle getting them into the van!  My back has been better, but I aggravated it this morning doing that :(

I need to get a warmer coat for winter, my red wool coat is ok for fall days, but it does nothing to block the wind!  I don't want to spend any money on one though, what's the point?  It'll only be for one season!  Walmart I hear is a good choice, it has to be WARM though because I walk to work often and I don't want that to be a deterrent!

I gained 0.2 lbs at weigh in tonight.  Not a big deal I know, but now I have to lose 1.6 pounds to receive my 75 pound medal at the meeting next week!  I really want that before Christmas and next week is the last weigh in before they're closed for 2 weeks because of which day the holidays fall on!

I had a really busy day at work and am exhausted and sore!  Nightee night!

Breakfast

Oatmeal
12 almonds
banana

Snack

greek yogurt

Lunch
1.5oz low fat marble cheese
1.5 servings triscuit thin crisp crackers
cauliflower
1.5 servings heluva good dip

Dinner

Shepherds pie

Snack

Banana
1 twix bar (hubby had the other one!)

2 weeks 'til Christmas!

And I'm not ready!

Hopefully we'll be able to get a bunch done this weekend.  We have a Christmas party to go to on Friday night and maybe we'll be able to leave a bit early to pick up a few things.  I have ideas for most people on my list... So it should, in theory, be easy enough to finish...

So exhausted!  We're putting the kids to bed then passing out ourselves!

Breakfast

Oatmeal with brown sugar and cinnamon
12 almonds
A banana

Snack

Cheese string
Cauliflower
1 oz serving heluva good dip

Lunch

6 meatballs in diana sauce
1/2 cup rice and mushroom soup

Snack

Apple

Dinner

Pita pit
-pita
-3 oz chicken breast
-2 slices bacon
-romaine lettuce
-mushrooms
-green peppers
-1/2 oz shredded cheddar cheese
2 tbsp light ranch dressing

Snack

Pudding

Sunday sunday sunday!

We've spent the day dreaming about going to Disney!  Hopefully in August/September next year.  It's pretty much the only time Tom will be able to go, between finishing school and when all the EMS services are hiring.  Sometime in there I need to have surgery too, hopefully it'll all work out!

I did some cleaning as well, got the kitchen up to par after 2 weeks of not being able to do much, my back is sore now though...

We spent a couple of hours visiting with my sisters family, which was fun, the kids always have a great time over there!

Food wise I did really well today!

Breakfast

Oatmeal with brown sugar and cinnamon
12 almonds
A banana

Snack

Fat free greek yogurt

Lunch

An omelet with 2 eggs, a splash of skim milk, 3 slices of black forest ham (only 1 point for 3!), a whole lot of mushrooms, half of a green pepper and an ounce of low fat marble cheese.

Snack

An apple
a bite of my nephews home made cinnamon bun

Dinner

6 chicken meatballs with diana sauce
1/2 cup mushroom rice (2 cups of rice cooked, mixed with a can of condensed mushroom soup)
2 cups salad and veggies
1 tbsp balsamic dressing

Snack

1 cup of buttered microwave popcorn
A banana

These girls have got to go!

Now that I have made the decision to have a breast reduction I just can't stand my boobs!  They're too big for my frame (now) and they're saggy and make me feel like a grandma in just about anything I wear!  This Christmas I should be excited about finding something fantastic to wear to parties, but I can't stand shopping because my boobs aren't the size I want them!  I need to find something to wear for a Christmas party next weekend and I'm so dreading shopping for it!  I'm probably going to take a trip to the thrift store and get a few more things.  2 months and 11 days until I meet with the surgeon!
My sister and I went to Ricki's the other day, one of my favourite stores, everything fit in a large, but just didn't look right!  Grandma boobs!  They suck!

A weird thing about losing weight when you're closer to goal.  You change sizes a lot faster!  My go-to pair of jeans are getting loose with the good losses the past 3 weeks.  They fit well 8 pounds ago!  It took me 30 pounds to go down a size at first!  So weird!  Not that I'm complaining, jeans are plenty at the thrift store in the smaller sizes!

We took my mom out shopping, didn't get much, but she took us out for lunch at Tuckers Marketplace!  It's a buffet style restaurant with lots of fresh food, a good salad bar, roasted meats that are carved in front of you and a fantastic dessert bar!

I had to take a picture of Tom with the girls.  They're just so teeny next to his height!  The girls are holding hands too!  They were so good!

I didn't do too badly there, the only treat I had was a few coconut chocolate chip squares.  They're my favourite and I really can't pass them up!  I had 4, 1-inch square pieces.

I didn't have a whole lot in the way of snacks today, we woke up late, then went shopping and had a late lunch.  So a sub-optimal food day, but it could have been a lot worse!


Breakfast

Banana cake (cuz it spoke to me)
Apple

Lunch

baked ham ~ 4 oz
salad with cucumbers, shredded carrot and balsamic dressing
green beans
2 tbsp of scalloped potatoes (I left most of it on the plate, wasn't as good as I'd expected)
grapes, canteloupe, watermelon, banana slices
4 coconut chocolate chip squares

Dinner

Chili
1 piece of bread with 1 tsp butter and 13g of low fat marble cheese
salad
1 tbsp balsamic vinaigrette

Snack

An apple

Hubby's done exams!

It's friday!!!

Hubby has finished this semester at school so we're celebrating with spaghetti, caesar salad and garlic bread!  The girls and I made him his favourite dessert, my homemade banana cake :)

Once the kiddies are in bed we're going to snuggle and watch a movie, then hopefully sleep through the night! (If Zaryah permits!)

Breakfast

Oatmeal with brown sugar and cinnamon
12 almonds
a banana

Snack

Fat free greek yogurt

Lunch

Tortilla pizza
8 in tortilla
1.5 ounces low fat marble cheese
1/4 cup pizza sauce
1/2 cup mushrooms
1/2 a red pepper a couple of bites of red pepper, Zaryah picked the rest off and ate them!
an ounce of chorizo thin sliced sausage

So yummy!  And the whole thing is only 9 points!  That's a full size dinner plate!

Dinner

Spaghetti sauce (homemade with crushed tomatoes, ground chicken, ground beef, mushrooms, onions, red peppers and spices)
1/2 cup spaghetti noodles
2 tsp parmesan
Caesar salad (2 cups romaine lettuce, 1.5 tbsp Renee's caesar dressing, 1 tbsp parmesan, 1 tbsp bacon bits and a few croutons)

Snack

pudding

A better day

I slept last night!  (The baby slept :P )

I felt a bit better today too, probably the sleep!  I spent a lot of my day on my feet, didn't sit for long periods of time.

I did have a bath tonight after dinner, to help with the pain, as is my old fall back "feel me better" from my pregnant and bad pelvic problem days.  It was a pretty hot bath, and when I was about to get out I felt really dizzy and saw a few stars when I sat up.  I called Tom to help me out of the bath.  I got out slowly and I was alright, a little dizzy and a pounding heading for a few minutes, but I'm feeling ok now.  It might have something to do with the muscle relaxants I've been taking lately...

Dizziness scares me a bit these days.  I get it on and off now that I've lost the weight.  I was investigated for vertigo and my doctor came to the conclusion that it's just low BP.   Which it probably is, but it's a little disconcerting.  I really don't want to pass out and hurt myself!

I almost forgot!  That personal milestone I was going to hit soon?

160's!!!  

I don't think I've ever been in the 160's for any length of time in my entire adult life!  And I can barely fathom the next decade I will hit!  Holy Fack!!!!!


Breakfast

Oatmeal with brown sugar and cinnamon
12 almonds
a banana

Snack

Oikos fat free greek yogurt

Lunch

Chicken stroganoff
1/2 a red pepper
1/4 an english cucumber
1 tbsp greek feta and oregano salad dressing

Dinner

Cinnamon french toast
2 pieces back bacon

snack

1 cup cauliflower
1/2 red pepper
2 servings heluva good dip
1/8 serving multigrain tostitos (just a taste!)

A long day...

Well the baby kept me up again, but I couldn't, in good conscience, skip work again.

I've been taking it easy at work and have been using another examination room where I can stand at the computer instead of having to be seated at a desk all day.  My appetite is still not great, but I'm working on getting the good stuff in anyways!

I'm exhausted.  Going to bed!  Hubby is done exams so he'll be getting up with the baby! (right! as if she'll go to anyone else overnight!)

Breakfast

Oatmeal with brown sugar and cinnamon
12 almonds
a banana

Snack

oikos fat free greek yogurt

Lunch

Left over shepherd's pie
cauliflower and carrots
1.5 servings heluva good dip

Snack

An apple
a banana

Dinner

Chicken stroganoff
1/2 cup of rice
Romaine lettuce
1/2 red pepper
1/4 english cucumber
1 tbsp greek feta and oregano salad dressing

No snack, bedtime!

A sick day on the couch and Weight Watchers 360

The baby kept me up for 3.5 hours in the middle of the night last night (she's caught a bit of a bug) and my back was really complaining by the time the morning came!  I called in sick, I really needed to spend the day lying on the couch!  Zaryah was happy to just lay on me and cuddle so we both got some down time in.

This is how we spent a good portion of the afternoon :)

Isn't she cute?

I went to Physio again this evening right before going to Weight Watchers and I'm a little sore from being manipulated!  

She had me lay on a heating pad with my legs up in the air on a very high stool, it was actually pretty comfy!  I did notice how skinny my legs are now!  Chicken legs!

I'm distracted from the pain by another great loss!  I was down another 2.4 pounds tonight!  That's 7.4 pounds in the last 3 weeks!  I'm now down a total of 79.6 pounds!

I'm really on my game right now and am 1.4 pounds away from getting my 75 pound medal!  (Remember I started WW's online before attending meetings and lost 6 pounds that "don't count" at the meetings, but I count them, I worked hard to lose them!).  The WW's leader challenged me to get that medal before Christmas so I have 2 weigh in's left!  I'm SO going to do it!

Today at meeting they rolled out the newest version, Weight Watchers 360.  The plan hasn't really changed, they haven't messed with our daily points plus targets or points plus values thank goodness!  They are incorporating how to make certain healthy lifestyle changes routine and making the spaces you spend your time in plan friendly.  Seems useful.  They'll be rolling it out over the next few weeks.

I'm very close to another personal milestone... Hopefully I'll have something to celebrate with you soon!

I wasn't very hungry today...

Breakfast

Oatmeal with brown sugar and cinnamon

12 almonds

Snack

Banana

Oikos fat free greek yogurt

Lunch/Afternoon snack

Chorizo tortilla pizza

-8 inch flour tortilla

-1/4 cup pizza sauce

-1.5 ounces low fat marble cheese

-1 ounce very thin sliced chorizo sausage

-1/2 red pepper

Dinner

4 oz beef pot roast

15 pieces asparagus

1/2 a medium sized baked potato

3/4 serving heluva good dip

Dessert

The crust part of Tom's pumpkin pie with a bit of whipped cream :)

Physio and the bionic Eva!

My Physiotherapist squeezed me in today when she heard I was in the accident last weekend!  I was told she was totally booked this week but she took pity on me (we go way back :P).  She moved things around so I didn't have to wait another week!  She says she thinks I have a bit of a slipped disc and I did do something to my pelvis again. :(  I'll be seeing her or the massage therapist 3-4 times a week for the next 6, so my lunch hours are totally not my own for a while!  She also gave me a TENS machine, a kind of nerve stimulator/pain reliever and a great new heating pad.  Paid for my the car insurance of course.  I was a little skeptical about the TENS machine, but it really works!  I'm sitting up in bed!  Comfortably!

The TENS machine as per Wikipedia "TENS - Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation is a non-invasive, low-risk nerve stimulation intended to reduce pain, both acute and chronic. "

Pretty neat!  I put the 2 electrodes over my lower pelvis, either side of my spine, the the other two a few inches above that.  It feels like someone is holding an electric toothbrush up to my back and moving it around.  No pain!  Pretty cool!

Baby shower and a busy sunday!

I had a really busy day today!

I got up around 7:30, relaxed for an hour before the kiddies got up.  Then I cut up all of the veggies and fruit for the shower, cleaned the kitchen, wrapped the presents, made brunch for the fam, cleaned the kitchen again, got myself and the kiddies ready to go and over to our friends place!  The cake was a hit!
I did ok foodwise, I did sample the cake though, it was yummy!

We were there for about 3 hours, then came home and decorated the Christmas tree Tom had brought home yesterday.  Our friends little guy wanted to help so eh came over for a couple of hours too.  Our first year with a real tree!

After that I was done!  And so was poor Zaryah!  She just couldn't keep it together and was down before 7:30!  Now hubby and I are relaxing in bed!  Dexter is on tonight!

Breakfast

Oatmeal with brown sugar and cinnamon
12 almonds
a pear

Snack

nibbles of watermelon, pineapple, canteloupe, grapes

Brunch

2 pieces of Cinnabon bread french toast
2 pieces of pea meal (Or back) bacon

Snack/Dinner

Lots of fruit and veggies
heluva good dip
2 small meatballs
1/4 cup pulled pork
Small piece of cake

Snack

1 ounce light marble cheese
11 triscuit thin crisps parmesan garlic crackers

Saturday with the fam!

The girls and I got up between 8 and 9, woke Daddo at 9:30 and we went and did some Christmas shopping!  I struck one person off my list and got Lara's Birthday present!  Her birthday is in January and we saw a beautiful 4 poster bed at a clearance store and just had to get it!

I managed to get some cooking done, I made up 2 pounds of ground Chicken and 1 pound of ground beef with lots of onions, mushrooms and peppers and made 2 shepherds pies with half of the meat mixture (with cauliflower mashed potatoes), one for dinner tomorrow and one to freeze. I made taco salad topping with the other half.  I love doing up the ground meat like this, the veggies add a lot of volume, a ton of flavour and lowers the points a lot!

Sitting down is definitely still not comfortable.  The drive did me in so I was glad to be in the kitchen cooking!

I also made a cake for a baby shower I'm helping host tomorrow.  I'll post a pic tomorrow!

I'm now tired and hubby is waiting for cuddles :)

Breakfast

One piece of toast
1 tbsp Nutella
Greek yogurt
1/2 a banana
an apple

Lunch

Bacon and egg McMuffin
2 hashbrowns

Dinner

Taco salad
-taco filling
-romaine lettuce
-11 tostitos
-1 ounce low fat shredded marble cheese
-1 tbsp ranch dressing

Not a great day food wise...