Well the weekend is here! School was back in starting on Thursday and I am really glad for that. I am insanely booked for meetings next week but I will tough it out.
American Idol started so for fun I went out and bought Dreyer's American Idol light ice cream. The flavor I chose is called "Take the Cake" and is yellow cake with sprinkles and frosting swirls. It's heaven, but you can only eat so much before you make yourself sick with the sweetness.
By the way, did anyone else notice that many many of the bad singers shown in the Seattle episode weren't even from Washington? I've never met anyone like those people in my life. But I do feel bad for them because Idol prays on the mentally unstable. It's cruel.
I just found out yesterday that Mike's sister joined Weight Watchers and has already lost 3 pounds in her first week. I am so excited for her! A while back she was doing Nutrisystem and wasn't happy with the food choices so the diet didn't work out. I kept talking/raving about WW, plus Mike joined and has lost over 35 pounds. He says that she joined because she saw how well it worked for both of us. I truly hope she gets just as much success out of it. She is a determined person so it will happen!
I found my hot Starbuck's drink!!! For so long I didn't think I'd find one within reasonable WW points range (2-3 points preferred). But here it is! Starbuck's Cinnamon Dolce Latte, tall or grande sized, sugar-free, fat-free, no whip. A tall is 90 calories (2 points) and a grande is 120 calories (3 points). I tried one today and was very happy with it. It left a coffee/cinnamon aftertaste that made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Today is Day 8 of no school. I haven't taught a class since last Tuesday. I think we're the only district that cancelled school today because we can't do 2-hour delays on Wednesdays. Every Wednesday we end school one hour early, so if we started two hours late and got out one hour early then it wouldn't be counted as a full day of school. So what's the point in going if it counts for nothing, right? lol
I am seriously getting bored of being home all day every day. It's a 2nd Winter Break.
I've been going off plan more frequently lately. This is becoming a bad habit. On Saturday my friend had a party and I didn't drink any alcohol because I was driving by myself, so I had a piece of sausage pizza. Later I had a Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut. It was within my points so no biggie. An hour later I craved. Went straight for the canadian bacon and pineapple pizza and had one piece. Then I went back to the Krispy Kreme box and picked out a divine powdered doughnut with strawberry filling. At this point I was well off-plan so on Sunday I had a Taco Time crisp bean burrito with regular mexi-fries. After that it was on to random foods at home that I wasn't even hungry for or craving for that matter. This morning the scale showed a 2.5 pound gain. Well duh, Leanne, you dummy.
Today is a new start. It's time to pick myself back up and get back OP. So far I've had a very reasonable amount of fairly healthy foods and went for a jog on my parents' treadmill for 40 minutes. This week my goal is to get at least 15 AP's and stay completely OP. It wasn't hard before, it shouldn't be hard this time. I can and will do this and be satisfied!
By the way, thanks to Tawa Chihuahua I am now education on the dangers of the 13-Minute Omelet. I am no longer going to make them due to the cancer risk. You may want to read the article she sent me, it's under my Omelet post attached to Tawa's comment.
I don't normally cook or post recipes, but there's this amazing thing called a "13-Minute Omelet" that is just good Good GOOD! Tonight I made them using Egg Beaters and it turned out to be an 18-Minute Omelet instead. According to the recipes I've found for this, you can only use 2 eggs or 2 servings of Egg Beaters in order for this to work properly. Here we go:
For each omelet you will need:
1 Zip Lock freezer bag (quart sized)
1/2 cup Egg Beaters (Same as 2 servings = 2 real eggs)
Whatever fixins you normally like in omelets. I prefer just deli ham and 2% shredded cheese.
Directions: Put all ingredients into Zip Lock bag, close it and shake so everything is mixed together. Open it, then squeeze all the air out. Zip back up. Put bag into large pot of boiling water and let sit for 18 minutes (if you used real eggs then it should only be 13 minutes, but with my experience tonight using Egg Beaters it was not done after 13 minutes but was perfect after 18). Open it up and let the omelet slide out onto a plate. Enjoy!
Also, I noticed my Zip-Locks ended up melting pretty badly at the top so I'd be careful monitoring and use a large enough pot for it. My pot was not large enough for the 2 omelets which I think is why it melted so badly. I had to replace the bags partway through the cooking process! Anyway, it's easy to make overall and tastes awesome.
We've been having some more unusual freezing weather since November. We've had snow for the last two days and school's been out. At this rate we'll be in school until July! But I have been enjoying the time off and focusing on reading books and staying healthy.
Do you think it's the cold weather that's making me have an unsatiable appetite? Last night I just didn't want to stop eating! I wasn't necessarily hungry but eating was definitely on the brain. Mike admitted he felt the same way and suggested that maybe it was the weather.
I'm really trying to tone it down today but I kept talking about getting pizza last night and now I'm still thinking about warm melty cheesiness. Resist or give in? I've got 14 flex points left until Monday.
I just have to start by saying WOW, thank you to all of you who commented on my last post. It made me feel a whole lot better. I have decided it would be better to keep a lot of things to myself now so that people leave me alone when it comes to the negative talk. Not on EP, though! Everyone is always so supportive here and I don't feel like I have to hide what I do to be healthy.
Today was my first weigh-in since December 4th. After having the ups and downs I stepped on the scale and had a .6 loss! That's pretty nice considering I wore much heavier clothes than usual to the meeting. I wasn't trying to lose from being 113.4, I was just trying to take off anything I potentially had gained over the holidays because I ate so horribly. It seemed to have worked!
It's a nice relaxing weekend of no plans. Weight has been up down up down on the scale but it's starting to even out. Fluctuation is normal so I never worry. My boyfriend thinks I have a problem when it comes to the scale, just because I step on it once every morning. What I see almost never bothers me, though! So how is it a problem? It doesn't make me drastically change the way I eat or exercise. It's just nice to see how my body changes from day to day and helps me monitor. Is that really a problem for someone on maintenance? Am I really psychotic for stepping on the scale once a day? I personally think it's just fine since it doesn't phase me. Even my WW leader recommends it for lifetime members. She says once a week is good for those in weight-loss mode and once a day can be helpful for those on maintenance. It truly helps me.
It's just frustrating to see people close to me telling me I have a problem. I always stay OP (ok, except for eating the 180 flex points the week of Christmas). But I never eat less food than is considered healthy. My boyfriend thinks there's something wrong with weighing yourself once a day, regardless of whether or not it negatively affects your life. My best friend Kat says I'm underweight, regardless of the fact that even WW says I can lose an extra 5 pounds and still be at a healthy weight. She's even gone so far as to tell me I have issues with controlling food just because I write everything down in a journal. My sister tells me I work out too much, regardless of the fact that it's usually considered healthy to exercise 5 days a week for 35-45 minutes. What the **** is their problem? Is this all just because they're not used to me being small? I don't look underweight because I'm not. I'm 5' 2" so this weight is fine for me. My loved ones should really do more research before they accuse me of doing this the wrong way. All of them (aside from my boyfriend) are highly overweight or obese.
Happy New Year! It's now 2007 and time to make some resolutions. I've never been one to make a New Year's resolution because I always think that I'd be more likely to fail if I said I would be committed to something.
We went to the Westin hotel in Seattle and oh my gosh the view was amazing. We were facing the Space Needle directly from the 35th floor and saw the fireworks show. That really is a comfy bed! It's all white and fluffy.
I ate so much for lunch that day that I felt sick by the time we got to our dinner reservation. We went to Mexican food at lunch and I got a huge plate of bean and cheese nachos. I ate it all, plus two large mixed drinks called Bellini Mexicanos. So at dinner I ordered a small caesar salad and could barely stomach half of it.
The scale this morning said I've gained about 4 pounds. That's ok, no big deal. It's simply time to get back to the normal routine. Last week I counted that I used 180 flex points on top of the daily points... Doesn't that blow your mind? We're allowed 35 per week and I used 180. 180!!! hahahaha
I hope you all had a wonderful new year. My resolution is to get back to the normal routine, lose any extra weight and pay off all my credit card debt from buying too much clothes. Oh yeah, and work on the steps we need to take to own a house. There is no longer such a thing as an affordable house in Western Washington. My boyfriend and I both have good careers and get paid well enough but the asking prices for even the dinkiest little ramblers starts at $300,000. So much for wanting to have children and a dog. lol
Well I lost all the weight I gained over Christmas Eve and Christmas. I am back down to 110.7, but not for long!!! hehe
I went out to Thai food today with a friend and ate a whole plate of pad thai with tofu.
On Sunday I will be staying at the Westin hotel in Seattle. That day we will be drinking our guts out and I think my goal will be to become as sloshed as I possibly can... It's been such a long time. I miss the good old college days sometimes. Anyhow, I am already into negative flex points this week so I'm kind of not counting Sunday's drinking spree.
I've been back on the wagon with exercise lately as well. There was about a 5-day span where I didn't work out at all but I now have 15 AP's for the week and one more day to get any extra in there. The goal is to get in 18 for the week.
on top of the daily points... Doesn't that blow your mind? We're allowed 35 per week and I used 180. 180!!! hahahaha