Friday - 22 points 35 flex
Breakfast, this one had to be low. Only two points, with 16g of Nutty Nuggets and 110g of FF yogurt. There's going to be some tubby food later at La Fuente. I'm going to try my best and make the best desicions.
Dinner - 10 points 35 flex
Back to our chili roots. Basically, all we did was put together a whole bunch of stuff for chili and added our own spices.
1 1/2 pound 95% lean/5% fat raw ground beef
14 oz Morningstar Farms Frozen Sausage Style Recipe Crumbles
28 oz stewed tomatoes
14 oz canned pinto beans
14 oz canned kidney beans
2/3 cup onion(s)
1 medium green pepper(s)
Cut everything up, brown the meat (not the morningstar) put it all in the croc pot, put it on low for the whole day and viola. You have chili. This recipe that we have calls for caribou meat and reindeer sausage, but good old fasion ground beef works well. 10 1cup servings will yeild approximately 6 points. Pretty good.
With two pieces of bread, and milk, I get to 10 points. On the button. Thank you very much.
Thursday - 22 points 35 flex
Breakfast - 4 point yogurt and nutty nugget.
Lunch - 1 point chowder, 3point salad dressing, 1 point craisens, 1point bacon, 2 point bread. With water and apple, I count what is left as 10points. I already know that we're having some classic Weight Watchers chili for dinner. In general our chili is very low points and combined with some crusty bread should be pretty good.
Wednesday - 18 points 35 flex
I ended up running just like I planned, which wiped out my breakfast. For lunch I had some left over chowder for 2 points, a piece of bread for 2 points, and a small salad. On the salad I had some beautifully good blue cheese for 3 points. Some nuts for 5 points. Ooooo...that might hurt. From my calculations, that comes out to, 12 points. So, for the night, I have 10 left.
Dinner came really easy. I had a real hamburger 3 (preformed) bun 2, french fries (baked) 3 and some grilled zucchini. Top it off with some milk and I'm even for the day. Bam! Ok, that was uncalled for, but still worth it since I didn't have to dip into flex. I also played some kickball, but I don't call that any significant form of excercise.
Wednesday - 22 points 35 flex
Breakfast
While I know that I need to save on points, since I can't carry over any, and I know lunch will be lite and dinner too, I had a full serving of Nutty Nuggets with my yogurt. That's four points. I think I'll go running today too.
Dinner - 12 points 35 flex
Pita Pizza's for dinner. I love that stuff. 4 points for the pitas, 0 for sauce, 0 for the mushrooms, 0 for the fake meat, 2 points for the cheese. I had skim milk for 2 points, and hamburger bun garlic bread for 2 points. For dinner that's 10 points. I also had a whole sleeve of Passion Fruit Fruities. That's 1 point. To help with hunger, I split a bag of popcorn with my wife. No flex. I know that I have to save my flex because this weekend is going to be tough.
I'm helping my best friend move, and I already know that pizza and beer will be served. Also, we're getting together with our cousins on Sunday for dinner, which will be pizza. I'm going to try and get a run in on either Saturday or Sunday to help with that. I need to save all of my points though.
New Week - 22 points 35 flex
Oh man, I should have known better. My weight came in at a whopping 167.4, which is a 3.6 gain. Where the !@#$ did that come from? I must have had a really, really, REALLY bad week. Back on the wagon. Man...that was a really bad week. Woooo.
Tuesday - 22 points, 35 flex
Breakfast
48g Nutty Nuggets - 3 points
Raisens - 1 point
110g FF Yogurt - 1 point
Lunch
Big freakin salad - 0 points
1oz of chips - 3 points
3tbs FF French Dressing - 2 points
Looks like for dinner I'll be at 12 points, which is very managable.
The weekend, do I tell you everything I ate?
I wondered this whole weekend whether or not to tell you all what I ate. Should I mention everything with the point values, knowing very well I'm way beyond my flex allotment for the week? I decided to compromise. I would try and remember everything I ate, and if you want to, you can calculate the points for everything. A highschool friend was in town for a wedding and so my family did a lot of stuff with his family, and there was a lot of food and care-free attitude all around.
Two good things from this weekend.
1 - I did get a 3.5 mile run in on Saturday before it rained.
2 - Sunday was spent at the zoo walking around/running after little boys.
Here's everything I remember eating. It's not in any particular order, but, you get the idea.
Normal breakfast of nutty nuggets and FF yogurt.
Toast
Pears
Apples
Applebutter
Home made jame
Topper's Pizza (2 pieces)
Topper's Bread Stix (like 4-5 pieces)
Pepperchinos
Skim Milk
Ham sanwhich
Tortilla Chips with Salsa
Hamburger
French Fries
Ice Cream (in a cup, single scoop)
Ice Cream with extra peanut butter and Amish Friendship bread
Ice Cream with extra peanut butter (yup, had it a couple of times)
2 slices of left over pizza
1 - cousin's ham and cheese sub.
I'm sure I'll pay for it tomorrow at the scale.
For dinner tonight
This is what my family and I will be having for dinner. Slow cookers are great for meals to prepare ahead of time.
Potato and Canadian Bacon Slow Cooker Chowder
 |  | POINTS® Value | 2
Servings | 8
Preparation Time | 25 min
Cooking Time | 360 min
Level of Difficulty | Easy
soups | This rich and chunky chowder is the next-best thing to being wrapped in a warm quilt. Canadian bacon makes all the difference.
|
2 cup potato(es), cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 large carrot(s), diced
1 cup leek(s), chopped, white part only
1 medium garlic clove(s), minced
4 cup fat-free chicken broth
1/2 cup uncooked barley, pearl
1 piece bay leaf
1/4 tsp dried thyme, crushed
1/4 tsp black pepper
4 oz cooked Canadian-style bacon, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
1/2 cup fat-free evaporated milk
2 fl oz fat-free creamer, such as fat-free half-and-half
- In a slow cooker, combine potatoes, carrots, leek, garlic, chicken broth, barley, bay leaf, thyme, pepper and Canadian bacon. Cover and cook on low for 6 hours or until vegetables and barley are tender.
- Stir in evaporated milk and half-and-half and heat through uncovered, about 10 minutes. Yields about 1 1/4 cups per serving.
Thursday - 22 points 22 flex
Breakfast 2 points (FF Yogurt and Nutty Nuggets)
4 points Amish Bread. Tasty little sweet bread
Lunch9 points - Left over rice and chinese. Hey, there was a lot of left over. See when you measure out the food, instead of just eating it, you can get a lot of it for low points.
DinnerBacon Egg Wrap
3 points for 1.5 eggs
2 points for 2 bacon
1 point for wrap
skim milk 2 points
Dessert - amish bread 2 points and 68g of ice cream 3.
Yes, I do measure out everything. It helps to control the portions and make me feel good about myself. So, by calculating everything I see 28 points, that means 6 comes from flex. I also had a slice of cold pizza for a snack. That was 6 points, so 12 points from flex. That will leave me with 10 for the weekend. I should be ok. We do have family and friends in from Hawaii, but that shouldn't be too bad. I'll get a run in one of the days.
Wenesday - 22 points 29 flex
4 point breakfast
48g of Nutty Nuggets and 110 of FF Yogurt
9 point lunch Chinese Food (left over from like three days ago)
1 cup rice
1 cup pork and veggies
Salad
3 pts for dressing
3 pts for nuts
1 pt for craisens
4 mile run - get four points back. (So far I'm at 6 points left.)
Dinner
Chicken
Cacciatore - 6 points
Milk - 2 points
Garlic Bread - 2 points
Ice cream - 3 point
At the end of the day, I dip 7 points into my flex.
8 Good Health Habits
Remember to work in the eight good health habits as you eat your points during the day and the week. While not critical to the plan, they will enhance and make you more successful when losing weight and making choices.
1. Protein - try to work in some protein during the day. Lean meats and fish are the best. Protein typically keeps you fuller for longer, but will be higher in point values.
2. Make it whole grains - whole grains are better for digestion and keeping your innards healthy. Again, whole grains will typically take longer to digest and be lower in point values because of the high fiber.
3. Water - get in 6-8 servings of water a day. One of the servings can be milk, and you can get another from caffeine-free coffee or tea.
4. Healthy Oils - there are, believe it or not, healthy oils you should try to work into your daily eating. Olive, and Canola oil are examples.
5. Fruits and Vegetables - Try and get in five servings of fruits and veggies. Most veggies are free, and you know my view on fruits.
6. 2 Milk - try and get in two servings of milk. This can be from milk, yogurt, cheese, and even ice cream. Granted there's a lot of points, but ice cream will count.
7. Limit sugar and booze - I think this is pretty self explanatory
8. Take a multi vitamin to supplement your intake that you might be missing.
New week - New Day - New Session
Yesterday began a new session and a new week for me. After my morning coffee and break I decided to brave the scale and hop on.
Weight - 163.8
Woohoo, .2 under goal. And a 2lb loss for the week. That's pretty nice and I'd like to say that I'm pretty happy about that.
We started a new session of Weight Watchers at work today (yesterday) and we got a good group of people. This will be the first session that my blog is making it a centerpiece. I will try and post my daily intake as well as meeting discussions here.
Breakfast - 22 points 35 flex
16g nutty nuggets - 1 points
110g FF yogurt - 1 point
Lunch - 20 points 35 flex
1 cup rice - 4 points
1 cup schezuan chicken - 5 points
Water, water, water
Dinner - 11 points 35 flex
1 cup Hamburger helper made with fake meat - 4 points.
This is an excellant point. We had planned on a friendly Pita Pizza for dinner, but realized we were out of pitas, and the Weight Watchers Chicken Catchattori (sp?) would take over an hour to prepare. It's always handy to have some bags of Morning Star Veggie Crumblers and Hamburger Helper on hand. You can cut the point values of a much of it in half by just using the fake meat.
Skim Milk - 2 points
Garlic Bread - 2 points
Corn on the cob - 1 point
After dinner, that brings me down to 2 points of flex left.
Other items to note.
2 miller lites - 4 points
2 two point bars - 4 points (what? I was hungry)
All of that leads me to dip into my flex for 6 points.
Dinner - 15 points 14.5 flex
We had Chinese. Man was that tasty. And you know, it isn't as bad as you think for points. I splurged and had a lot of it, and here is my justification. I had a lot of flex left, I had a lot of points left for the day and tomorrow starts a new week, so one meal isn't going to make me 5 lb's over weight.
2 cups white rice - 8 points
2 cups Schezuan chicken - 10 (18 so far)
1 egg foo young - 4 (22 so far)
skim milk - 2 points (24)
So, with all of that I have 5 points left in flex and I would say I'm good to go for the week. We'll see how I did tomorrow with the weight in and new session starting.
Monday - 22 points 14.5 flex
Breafast was good. I had my standard FF Yogurt (110g) but I had something new mixed in with them. I had a serving of Weight Watchers new cereal. You can go here, http://www.goodchoicecereal.com/coupon.shtml?WT.mc_id=breakfastonus to get a coupon to get a box for free. I mean, this is a free box. You can't pass up free. One serving with my yogurt was 3 points. Lunch was standard 3 point sandwich and 1 point dressing for the carrort. Added two pears and a machintosh apple to round everything out.
It looks like for dinner I'll be sitting at 15 points and 14.5 flex points. McDonalds might be in order, or Cousin's, or Subway or something else. Either way, we have to go grocery shopping tonight.
Dinner - 14 points 15 flex
I had to modify my flex points since I forgot that I had 2tbs of peanuts with my Pad Tai, and yes, I meaured them out.
Dinner was this great recipe from Take-Out tonight, Egg Plant Heros. This is created by lightly breading slices of egg plant and baking them with a little cheese. Then placing the servings on some Italian Roles and dousing it with spaghetti sauce. According to the recipe it was only 7 points. With some veggies and milk, I had an awesome 9 point dinner. That left me with 5 points for the night.
For dessert, I made one of our No-Pudge brownies, however, I was a little naughty and added one half of a Baby Ruth. Half of Baby Ruth is only 3.5 points, plus the 2 point brownie, I'm taking .5 from my flex. Sweet.
Sunday - 22 points 20 flex
Breakfast was a normal one for me, but I added a little more.
32g of Nutty Nuggets - 2 points
110g FF Yogurt - 1 point
1 piece of toast - 1 point
Lunch was low key too.
Ham wrap - 4 points (2 for the cheese)
14 points left for the day.
Saturday - 22points 35 flex
It was a nice day and I knew we had a lot of stuff to do. We had to take the boys to get new shoes at the outlet mall in Kenosha, and then we were going to see my dad. Fast food was the option here for all of us for lunch. Breakfast was more than normal, as my wonderful wife made everyone blueberry pancakes. I had three and 1/4 cup of the lite syrup.
3 blueberry pancakes - 6 points (these were made with lite Bisquick)
1/4 cup lite syrup - 2 points
1 KFC Breast (without the skin, that's important) - 5 points
Now, the book says 11 points with the skin, and skinless it says 3, so I compromised.
1 biscuit - 5 points (damn...that's a bad one)
1/2 cup mashed potatoes - 2 points
5-7 potato wedges - 3 points
I went for a run that afternoon too...to sort of help with the points that I ate. However, I knew that I would have 35 of flex still. I got 3 points back for a 3 mile run. After that, I get 20 points for the day, so I know that dinner will mostly come from flex. That's fine since I have a ton left.
Dinner consisted of Pad Tai, mad from the Take-out tonight cook book. We ate late, and I was hungry.
2 - servings of pad tai - 13 points
milk - 2 points
So, at the end of the day I have used 15 of my 35 flex. Pretty good.
Friday - 22 points 35 flex
Today started out good, and ended good. I had two points worth of yogurt and nutty nuggets for breakfast. Lunch was good, as I had 2tbs of FF dressing with my carrots and a small salad with only 1 point worth of craisens. Top that off with a three point sandwich and I'm sitting at 15 points left for dinner.
When I came home, I had a box waiting for me from Weight Watchers. It would seem I get to try a new treat. Lemon Dream 2 point bar! Mmmm....oh man are these good. I split it with my wife and I had 1 point. I hope I can order these for my group. We wisked the boys off to the mall to go get their feet measured and hair cut. After that trauma, see http://ethanandlogan.blogspot.com, we ran to Applebee's for some take out. I had a 9 point Southwestern Cobb salad. It was very good. So, I'm sitting at 5 points for the rest of the night. I had a little two point snack, some left over fries, and we'll call it even for the day.
Man, this plan rocks.
Dinner - 17 points 35 flex
Mmmmm...well my brother grilled us some Hanger steak. He told me this is a cut of meat that "hangs" from the diaphram. It was tasty and I had about 6oz. He's good cook and managed to cut away a good percentage of the fat. I'll take about 10 points for the meat, which brings me to 7 available. The roaseted veggies he made were 0 points (i'm not going to count the oive oil he cooked with.) Then there was a side of Cous-cous, which is a middle eastern grain. I had about 1/2 cup, which comes to a whopping 1.5 points. With a nice glass of milk to wash everything down. I'm down to 3.5 points. However, considering there was some oil in the veggies, I'll call it even for the day.
Owww, I'm hurt and tired. Wed - 22 points 35 flex
I know I didn't need to, but I slid yesterday playing kickball. I fell on my hand wrong and now my tendon hurts. Don't ask me how I know my tendon hurts, it just does. My day started out like any other with my standard breakfast of 110g of FF Yogurt and 16g of Nutty Nuggets (2 points). I also had a boatload of coffee, but that isn't anything new. It's been a while since I went running as was evident on how tired I was at Kickball last night. Still I went. It felt great and I'm not that tired, I'm just complaining a little.
4 mile run - +4 points
Big Ass Salad at work - 2 points (craisens)
4tbs of FF French Dressing - 2 points
Ham Sandwich - 3 points
So, after lunch I'm down to 17 points left for dinner. That' s good, because my brother is coming over for dinner. When I say coming over, he's making dinner for us. Something with a fancy steak and grilled veggies. Should be pretty good. I've never been disappointed by what he made.
Wednesday - 22 points 35 flex
The day was good and I think I did really well.
110g FF Yogurt / 16g Nutty Nuggets - 2 points
2oz pork loin (left over) - 2 points
2tb FF French Dressing - 1 point (17 points)
BLT's for dinner - 5 points (3 bacon)
1.5 servings tater tots - 4.5 points
Skim Milk - 2 points
62g of ice cream - 2 points
1 No Pudge Brownie - 2 points
That brings me to 20 points. Wow...you'd think I'd have less. Huh...that's cool.
Lunch / Dinner - 19 points 35 flex
Lunch consisted of left over taco salad from the night before. This meat was actually the fake meat for only 1 point per 2/3 cups. With approximately a serving of chips for 3 points, 2 points of semi low fat cheese, I'm sitting pretty good at 6 points for lunch. I topped it off with a nice apple and whole bunch of carrots.
That brings me to 13 points for dinner.
I was on my own for dinner with the boys so we had a bunch of left overs. I had 3oz of pork loin with some cauliflower and 3 pieces of toast. The pork was lean and only 3 points. The vegetable was free and the toast was 3 points. I had a ton of water too, since I think that part of the reason that I didnt' lose this past week was because I didn't have enough. So, after dinner, I'm at about 6 points left for the day. What ever shall I do?
New week, it finally caught up with me
I knew that some of those excessive bad days and not working out would catch up with me. I weighed myself in at 165.8, a clear 1.4 lb gain over last week. Well, what I know I have to do is not go out as much, pass up the mozzerla stick, doughnuts, and regular beer and work out more. We start a new Weight Watchers session next week, and today is the informational meeting. I'm hoping we get a good turnout. It's always more envigorating for everyone when there is a lot of people there in attendance.
I start off the new week with a new resolve and new set of flex points.
Breakfast - 22 points 35 flex
FF Yogut / Nutty Nuggets / Raisens - 3 points
Monday - Standard Day (22 points 0 flex)
Nutty Nuggets and yogurt - 3 points (I threw in some raisens too)
4 slices of Amish Friendship Bread - 12 points that's probably not enough, but oh well.
Chicken Noodle Soup - 6 points
Chunck of bread - 4 points
(seeing a trend here? the rend is a lot of flipping points.)
Taco salad for dinner - 6 points
Corn on the cob - 1 points
Skim Milk - 2 points
pie - 9
ice cream - 3 points.
Man...I just gave up there at the end didn't I?
Sunday - 22 points 5 flex
I suppose I could make up some nice little story and describe all that I ate, but for some reason I have a lot of work to do this Monday morning. I'll just state my day and deal with it.
(3) Blueberry Pancakes - 6 points
1/4cup lite syrup - 2 points
bunch of coffee - 0 points
ham sandwich - 3 points
peach - 0 points
plum - 0 points (11 remaining points)
3oz pork tenderloin - 3 points
2 biscuits - 4 points (4 left)
green beans - 0 points
milk - 2 points
pie/ice cream - all the rest of flex and points for the day.
Dang...well. I should be ok for Monday.
Dinner - 14 points 24 flex
I had to be bad, but not really. For dinner we had order to Toppers Pizza. Good old fashion pizza. Nothing healthy about it, but you know what? I had only two pieces, which from what I calculate is about 14 points. But I'm not done for the night. I had two points worth of home made garlic bread, 22 points in flex. There was milk too, 20 points.
But wait..this gets good. My brother went to the madison's farmer market and bought us a Red Raspberry pie. Man, that was good. Holy cow, I don't hink I've had a better pie. Going by the standard point values, I got 9 points, so 11 flex. There was 3 points worth of the sugar free ice cream, 8 points flex, oh...did I mention the after pie beer? I think I forgot, I'm at 5 points left. Isn't that great.
Oops, I forgot Friday night. That's important.
For lunch, I had a wonderful Indian dish left over from the night, or two nights before. Either way, it was awesome, and only 3 points. The chicken and the leftover sauce wasn't a full serving. So, for dinner I had 11 points for dinner. I think that I would need it, after I look at it from tonight, which happens to be Saturday.
We had a standard pita pizza for our family, those come in, with the lite cheese (not fat-free) comes in at 6 points. With the milk, and garlic bread, I'm at 10 points for the dinner. Leaves me with 1 point. I went to a movie with my buddy and we managed to have only two beers, lite, and I had one, count it one mozzerella stick. Four points for the beer, 4.5 for the one stick, for a total of 9 points (I'll round up.) That means I have 23 points in flex. Woooo...I made it.
Saturday - 22 points 32 flex
Morning was normal enough with my standard coffee, lots of it, and Nutty Nuggets and FF yogurt. Only spent 2 points for 20 points. I had a nice massage today and I had a Weight Watchers staff meeting. I knew that at the staff meeting there would be good stuff, but all of it would be good for us. They had Subway subs, not the 6inchers but smaller one. The party platter ones. I had a small one with some of the baked lays for added yumminess. All of that goodness, with two tootsie pop's brought me to only 6 points for lunch and a whopping 14 points left for dinner. I think I need to be bad.
Friday - 22 points 32 flex
As it turns out I had some ice cream last night. There was more than 1 serving, but less than 2, so I would say three points for such and 3 from flex. This morning for breakfast, I decided to splurge and have a doughnut. Mmmmm....doughnut.
Crueller - 6 points
Standard Breakfast - 2 points
That leaves me with 14 points for the rest of the day. That actually isn't bad, because I know that the kind of lunch I will have is low points.
Thursday - 22 points 35 flex
Today was an easy going kind of day. My computer busted, but that's besides the point. I ate well and even went for a run. My breakfast started out normally, with my 2 point Nutty Nuggets and FF Yogurt. I had a snack of a plum for another zero points, so I'm down to 20 for the day.
I ran nicely for 4 miles, taking in a good 4 points back, so I'm sitting at 24. Wow! How do you like that. Well, you know I decided to blow a good deal of points on lunch. I liked that they had the mixed nuts for my salad, because that's always tasty. Those mixed nuts, approximately cost me 11 points. Ouch, but that's ok, with the dressing and craisens I'm in for 14 points. Down to 10 for the day, and I got my veggies in for the day.
Feeling good about myself I decided I wanted to be bad for dinner. However, bad turned out to be blueberry pancakes. Our mixture is Low Fat Bisquick, and using the Weight Watchers recipe builder, I got 2 points per cake. That's great, so I had 6 points of pancakes, 2 points for the milk and 2 points for the 1/4 cup of lite syrup. Man...right on the button. Booya!
For the life of me, I can't think of something we're doing this weekend. I may be bad and dip into flex to have some ice cream. I'll let you know later.
Wednesday - 22 points 35 flex
Breakfast was the good old Nutty Nuggets and Yogurt for two points. That was good, because I forgot today was Lunch with Boss day. It was actually a skip level meeting with the CIO and a bunch of random peons. We get to ask questions and enjoy a catered lunch.
I tried to make good choices, but I didn't think it was necessary to stick to hard since I have plenty of flex and I don't have any party plans this weekend.
Baked Chicken breast - 2 points
Salad - 0 points
Bun - 2 points
Dressing 2 tbs - 2 points
1/8 cup of nuts - 2 points
Chicken Tetrazini - 4 points
Cauliflower - 0 points.
For dinner I'm left with 10 points. That isn't bad, but we're having something new tonight and I'll let you all know how it turns out. I skipped the ice cream dessert for lunch and stuck to coffee. I'm doing allllllright.
Dinner - 14 points 35 flex
Dinner consisted of some quick yummy pasta. Wheat spaghetti, with some no sugar added pasta sauce and even real Chicken nuggets. Well....real in that they weren't tofu. Here's the breakdown.
2oz spaghetti - 3 points
1oz sauce - 0 points
4 Chicken Nuggets - 4 points
Skim Milk - 2 points
Garlic Bread - 2 points
Green beans - 0 points
That was an 11 point dinner. Leaves me with approximately 3 points left, and I'm not sure how I'm going to eat them. I suppose if I count all the fruit I ate today, then I won't have to account for those points. Score!
New week new points (Tuesday) - 22 points 35 flex
Ahhh...to be free again of the crippling affect of low points availablility. Wearing my normal clothes for work and freeing myself of the heavy shoes, I weighed in today at 164.8. I'm down .4 for the week, which was pretty good considering what my past weeks were like.
Breakfast and lunch so far.
16g of nutty nuggets, and 100g of Fat Free Yogurt - 2 points
peach, carrots, pear and apple - 0 points (you know my belief on fruits)
Ham sandwich - 3 points.
Dressing for salad - 1 point
Couple of nuts - 2 points
For the day I'm sitting at 14 points left for dinner. Awesome.
Monday - 22 points 3 flex
Today was a normal day as far as I care. For breakfast I had a slimmed down version of my Nutty Nuggets. I opted for the 16g and the 110 of FF Yogurt. That had me down to 20 points for the day so far. For lunch it was a simple ham sandwich for 3 points with some fruit and cucumbers. Being down to 17 for the day was really good, because I knew I was having ice cream with my dad.
During the afternoon I met my dad and he and my brother and we went out for ice cream. Stopping by the local hang out (Dairy Queen) I ordered a small Butterfinger Blizzard. According to WW, they don't have the listing for Butterfinger. On the DQ website, I couldn't access the actual nutritional information. On the WW website, they list it from 10 - 14 points for a small, depending on the flavour. I decided to split the difference and count it as 12. So, for dinner I had 5 points left.
Dinner was good and flavourful. We had some Moraccon burgers (see previous posts), bun and some Tater Tots (9 pieces). The burger and bun were 4 points, while the tots were 3. With the milk and crepes for dessert, I had used 11 points for dinner and dessert.
After evaluating what I did for that day, the only thing I would change is I should have ordered a Freeze from DQ instead of a blizzard. I'm pretty sure the freeze is made with FF Yogurt and not the regular ice cream. Mmmmm....good week.
The weekend (Not Labour day)
Saturday - 22 points 34 flex.
Wow, I know this weekend will be a challenge (after all, as I write this, it's Sunday night), but I'm determined to write it all down regardless. Saturday started out normal as normal can get, I had my standard breakfast of Nutty Nuggets and FF Yogurt. This time however, I upped it to the 48 grams and enjoyed a 4 point breakfast. I told the boys it was ok, since one of them and daddy were going to run it off in a couple of hours.
We got a new (new to us) jogging stroller and I was determined to take a boy jogging with me. And jogging we went 2 hour later. I managed to do my standard 5k while pushing a sleepy little boy in the stroller. We got home just in time to meet mommy and his brother. However, brother Ethan wanted a turn in the stroller too. So I took him in it and did an extra lap walking to cool down. The morning went very well.
48g Nutty Nuggets - 3 points
110 g FF Yogurt - 1 point
5k Run - +4
So as you can see. The morning was a wash. I'm sitting at 22 points and 34 flex. For lunch I made a large salad and threw in some blue cheese for the blue cheese potato salad I was making for the Brewer game later that night. For that and the dressing, it was a four point lunch. Still pretty good from what I can see. Now... the trouble starts. I don't really know how I should write this, so I think it's best to just write everything down and see what the points come out to be. Remember this was bunch eaten was over about an 8 hour period.
6 Redvines (licorice) - 6 points
2 brats - 10 points
1 bun - 2 points (yes i had one with out the bun)
3 beers - 9 points (these weren't lite beers)
Blue Cheese Potato Salad - 3 points (I made this the healthy way and weighed out a server so I would know what it looked like.)
Serving of Tortilla Chips - 3 points (I had a couple but not all at once, this is a best guess)
2 brownies - 10 points
1/2 hot dog 1/2 bun - 4 points
Handful of Crunch N Munch - 3 points
What's the damage? Remember, I had 19 + 34 points, or 53 points to blow. Looks like my handy calculator got me in at 50 points. Wooo hoo, I have 3 flex points left.
Sunday - 22 points 3 flex
Egg McMuffin - 6 points. What? Excuse me, did you just say you had an Egg McMuffin? Why yes I did as a matter of fact. There is a place for fast food in Weight Watchers. I didn't get the meal deal, and I didn't get a hash browns or O.J. or anything. It can be done.
Lunch was simple. Ham slices in a wrap with a bunch of veggies and 2 points worth of blue cheese. Come on, I'm on a blue cheese kick. So, there we go, it's a 4 point breakfast. For the day, it brings me down to 12 points for dinner.
Dinner was a old standard for my wife and I. Eggplant Pitza's, on the grill of course. That concoction (I'll give the recipe out if you want) came to 6 points. Down to 6. What's up? Beers with the boys. I met my friends for a couple of beers and I opted for lite beer and only had two. So, for the beers and ice cream (oh..did I forget to mention that?) I came to zero for the day. Wow...I think I had a pretty good day.
Friday - 22 points 34 flex
This was a crazy day. Between trying to get out of work early and dealing with production issues, I managed to not eat lunch. However, I made really good choices and dealt with the situation.
Breakfast - 3 points
nutty nuggets, FF yogurt
Dinner before dinner - 3 points
I only made a ham sandwhich, a standard one and being ravenous, only had an apple and plum.
sandwich - 3 points, so far, I have 16 points left for the day. Then my wife calls and asks if I wanted to get a fish fry, since she was running late. I said "yes" knowing I could step up to the challenge.
I ordere the pan fried walley filet, instead of the deep fried. I chose the potato pancakes too without syrup, butter or apple sauce. Something told me they would be better point wise then french fries. I did eat the once piece of rye bread and the 1/3 cup of cole slaw.
Now on WW website, it says 1 filet of waleye is 3 points, but I think I technically had two filets, so I'll take the 6 points. Down to 10. Then, the rye bread slice is only 1 point, down to 9. The potato pancakes were a surprising 2 points a piece, to bring me down to 5. Wow, I made the right decision on that one. Then according again to WW website, a serving of cole slaw is anywhere from 3-4. I'll take the four and call it even for the day. Cool. I didn't have to dip into flex and tomorrow is the Brewer tailgate party. I should be set.
