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...