Miracles!

Tonight was the first night in a LONG time that I made dinner. What a difference a home cooked meal is in points!! I made sweet and sour meatballs served over brown rice with a side of california baby blend vegetables and steamed zucchini. Total points = 9 points for the whole thing! I have a fridge full of take-out leftovers (mostly in honor of all my birthday dinners) that are high in points - but yummy to the tummy. This morning I was thinking that there is no way I can live off of 23 points. It's impossible! I realize that statement is true if I am eating out every day, but if I get my act together and actually prepare meals in my own home it is possible. Inviting the missionaries over for dinner was the only reason we didn't eat out tonight.

Jared was so excited when he saw what we were having for dinner. He gave me a huge hug and thanked me for making his favorite meal. It's a good thing I had a package of meatballs in the freezer. I chose this entree because it was so easy. I guess I have to start back into a cooking routine somewhere :)

On another happy note - because the missionaries were coming and our sink was overrun with dirty dishes and the kitchen was an absolute mess, we put the dishwasher back together with the new control board. YAY for working modern technology!! The dishwasher is running the load of dirty dishes from dinner as I type and it is music to my ears :) This has been a huge hurdle for making dinners at home, so hopefully this will also help motivate me to get back in the kitchen!

Happy Birthday to Me

Happy 33rd Birthday to me :) It has been a wonderful day, and I'm so grateful for good friends and a loving family!

A good friend was so thoughtful and brought us dinner tonight in honor of my birthday. She brought salmon, a salad, and baked sweet potatoes plus a muffin dessert sort of like ones that are made at Mimi's Cafe (never eaten there, so I have nothing to compare it to). It was delicious, and I appreciate her efforts to make a good healthy meal for me. Too bad I blew my healthiness AFTER dinner :P

It's only Tuesday and I've already eaten through ALL of my weekly points AND yesterday's activity points. Man!!! I know it's my birthday, but goodness!!! I actually would have been ok, but we went to Chili's to celebrate this evening - crap. I just remembered about the choc covered bananas the boys made me for my bday treat:P and I forgot to account for the dessert muffin I ate - Anyway, and I got a free fudge brownie sundae which is a whopping 32 point dessert. I decided the heck with it and ate as much as I could (which was most of it.) So, I lost a good 21 points - a DAY'S worth of points!! - on a brownie that made me feel sick afterwards because it was so rich. I should have just stopped with the chips and salsa. Just for the record, I am glad to have spent the evening with friends and I am not disappointed or upset about anything that happened there other than my own lack of self control.

This week isn't really going to get any better when it comes to my points. My parents want to take us out to dinner one night, Friday I'm having a pizza party for my piano students, and Saturday is a birthday party. I'd say for the first time since I started WW in January this week is a WASH!! I may get to find out what happens when you use all available points :p Guess it's time to workout two or three times a day :p

Hopefully this doesn't become a habit. There is a reason I am hesistant to buy new clothes :P Stop the Insanity!!!

Merrily we roll along...

40 points spent today. DOUBLE my daily allowance!! At this rate I'll be back where I started in no time at all!! My birthday week was the hiccup two years ago when I was losing weight, and it seems to be deja'vu. Part of my relaxed attitute lately has been an experiment of sorts to see what if I could maintain healthy eating habits if I weren't constantly checking my points. Apparently the anwer is no. I know how much each thing is worth, but I fail to add them all up - which is where the problem lies. I was doing better when I had 25 points to spend. This 23 points business is hard! Or maybe I'm just getting lazy (which is probably the real problem).

Consequences Happen

Weigh in - 157.2. Ugh!! Very disappointing considering just moments earlier I weighed on the 'off' scale at 152.6. Although the actual pounds are off, it is usually accurate in the direction my weight is headed. I guess all the bad eating has caught up. Unfortunately it's not going to improve over the next week with my birthday being on Tuesday and we already have plans to go to Chikfila for lunch. *sigh* The good news is that when I go up I tend to be jolted back into a stricter regiment.

I know a lot of this bad eating is because I'm not cooking our dinners. I realized the other day when I was posting my recipes that I quit making dinner when our dishwasher went out of service. Having to wash the dishes by hand really makes being in the kitchen a drudgery.

Here's to a better week!