Rain Rain Go Away

Happy rainy day Teaspoons!

How did your weekend go?  Was it as grey and rainy as mine?  It rained all weekend here in beautiful Nova-Scotia so we had to stay indoors all weekend.  This means, I did not go walking.  Hopefully it won't rain tomorrow and I'll be able to go.  We had nothing to do my (skinny) boyfriend and I so we ended up at the University to watch some women Volley Ball.  It was fun!

Diet wise, it went pretty good too.  I tracked all weekend and used some of my weekly allowance points. You will find my weekend meals in details below.  

Tonight I made some Maple Glazed Pork Tenderloin.  I calculated the Point Plus value of all the ingredients and divided the total by four since I ate about 1/4 of it.  It was yummy! Here's a picture of it.  You can find the recipe if you follow this link: http://www.ricardocuisine.com/recipes/3011-maple-glazed-pork-tenderloins

Let me know how YOUR weekend went! What were your success?  What would you have done differently?

Till tomorrow, keep on tracking!

Saturday

Point plus target:29 

Brunch:
Milk (1/2 c.): 1 pt
Bagel: 8 pts
Egg: 2 pts
Butter: 1 pt

Snack: 

Yogurt (0%): 2 pts
Blueberries: 0 pt
Oats (1 T.s.): 0 pt

Supper:

Whole Wheat Spaghetti (2 c.): 8 pts

Sauce (1/2 cup): 0 pt
Cheese Wiz: 1 pt

Snack:
Fat Free Pudding: 2 pts

Day's total: 25 pts

Sunday

Point plus target:29 

Brunch:
WW English Muffin: 3 pts
Eggs (2): 4 pts
Ham: 1 pt
Fruits: 0 pt
Milk (1/2 c.): 1 pt

Snack: 

Yogurt (0%): 2 pts
Blueberries: 0 pt
Oats (1 T.s.): 0 pt

Supper:

Pork Tenderloin (6 oz.): 9 pts

Sauce: 2 pts
Veggies: 0 pts
Rice (1 c.): 5 pts

Snack:
Fat Free Pudding: 2 pts

Day's total: 29 pts

Oh Happy Days

Good evening Teaspoons,

How did your day go?  Mine actually went well.  Better than I thought it would. Turns out, this morning, there was oatmeal served at the breakfast buffet at the hotel.  I ate that with some fresh fruit.  It started my day well and showed me that even if I was out of town, I could still stay on track! So here I was, determined to stay on track and follow the WW guidelines.

As I was saying in yesterday's post, I was scared about what they would be serving at lunch.  Turns out, it was chicken pot pie with salad and fresh rolls.  I piled some salad up high on my plate and ate it with one tablespoon of Kraft Italian Vinaigrette.  I ate half of the roll and threw the rest out to make sure that I wouldn't be tempted to eat all of it.  There was some Babibel Cheese so I took one and saved it for the drive home.  Turns out, I was able to easily stay on track in the end. For supper, I took out some frozen chili from the freezer and we ate that.  I ate my first half cup and was going to eat another half cup of chili when my (skinny) boyfriend decided to put some hot sauce in it which made it WAY too spicy for my liking.  Because of this, I ate some more egg noodles instead of my other half cup of chili.

Hope your day went as well as mine!  Like last weekend, I'll post something at lease once during the course of the weekend.
Keep on tracking Teaspoons!

Point plus target:29 

Breakfast:

Lightly sweetened quick oats (Apple cinnamon): 3 pts

1 banana : 0 pt

Snack: 

1 apple: 0 pt

Lunch:

Green Salad with veggies: 0pts
Kraft Italian (1 T.spoon): 0pts
Half Roll: 2
Diet Coke: 0pt

Greek yogurt (0%): 2 pts

Snack: 

Kiwi: 0pt
Babibel Cheese: 2 pts

Supper:

Egg Noodles (1 cup): 5 pts
Chili (WW Recipe. 1/2 cup): 3 pts
Ham (50g): 1pt
Wine (10oz.): 10 pts

Day's total: 28 pts

Out Of Town For The Night

Good evening Teaspoons,

I'm quite tired tonight but still wanted to check in with you.  How did your day go?  Was it a successful one?  If not, what would you change about today?

I'm in Halifax tonight because I have meetings tomorrow.  I find it hard to leave my (eating) routine behind and come to the city.  So many food temptations: sushi, Italian, pubs, steak house, and the list goes on!  So how did I decide what I was going to eat tonight?  I planned a head of course!  Last night, I went online and search for the nutritional information of my favourite Thai place and found it! I calculated how much my favourite dish was (Pad Sew).  It was 19 points.  I then planned the rest of my day around those 19 points.  I just finished my Pad Sew and it was yummy (although a little too spicy for my liking).

Tomorrow is scaring me a little since I can't plan ahead.  I do not know what they will be serving us for lunch at our meeting.  This said, instead of eating a hot breakfast at the hotel tomorrow, I brought a pack of oatmeal with me and I plan on asking the server for hot water tomorrow morning and I'll eat that for breakfast.  You don't have to be shy about asking these kinds of things to the waiters.  If you had allergies, would it bother you to ask for different things? No! Then why be shy if it's for your diet?  I'll choose what I will eat for supper when I get home according to what we got for lunch.  I'll let you know how it all went down tomorrow.

Till then, keep on dishing about you weight loss in the comment box!

*** New Daily Point Target***

Point plus target:29 

Breakfast:

Lightly sweetened quick oats (Apple cinnamon): 3 pts

1 banana : 0 pt

1/2 cup of skim milk: 1 pts

Snack: 

1 apple: 0 pt

Lunch:

Soup: 1 pt

WW English Muffin: 3 pts

Fat Free Cheese Slice: 1pt

Greek yogurt (0%): 2 pts

Snack: 

Kiwi: 0pt

Supper:

Thai Express: 19 pts

Diet Coke: 0pt

Day's total: 30 pts
Weekly Allowance used today: 1 pt

Weight-In Day Has Arrived!

Happy hump day Teaspoons!

If you read yesterday's post, you know that today was weight-in day.  I must admit that I'm ecstatic about the results.  After a week and a half of being back on track, I've lost 8.8 pounds.  This means that I'm back at my before Christmas weight (I had gained a whopping 8.4 pounds over Christmas break).  It sure feels good to have a little more "room in my pants".  Hopefully your weight in will go as good as mine did this week. Even if you don't lose, don't forget to still celebrate the fact that you are back on track and taking the faith of your health in your own hands. Just remember not to celebrate with food but to still reward yourself.  You may want to go watch a movie with your best friend, go bowling with your family or go to chapters to find a good book to read.

This said, I now have to concentrate on the week that is coming up.  My goal is to go walk at lease 4 times this week. Think I'll make it? I went one today already so that's one down, three to go.  I'm sure that with your words of encouragement, I'll be able to reach this goal.

My friend Natalie send me some "freezer meals" to try.  I'm going to try to make some this weekend and freeze them.  If ever I try one that's really good, I'll make sure to let you guys know.  I'm also planing on calculating the point plus value of each recipe.

You will notice that I'm going to use a good chunk of my weekly allowance points today.  At the end of the week, if I have some left over weekly points, I usually try to use them up a little.  Not on "fatty foods" but usually, I might put a little bit more peanut butter on my morning toast or eat some leftovers for lunch (which I usually wouldn't do).  You can see what I ate today bellow.

Let me know how YOU did this week in the box bellow.  Can't wait to read all of your success stories!

Until tomorrow, keep on tracking!

Point plus target: 30

Breakfast:

Whole Wheat English Muffin: 4 pts
Light Penut Butter (2 Tbspoon): 4 pts

1 banana : 0 pt

1/2 cup of skim milk: 1 pts

Snack: 

1 apple: 0 pt

Lunch:

Chicken: 5 pts

Rice: 5 pts

Greek yogurt (0%): 2 pts

Snack: 

Melon: 0pt

Supper:

Rappie Pie: 13 pts

Snack: 

Aero Chocolate Bar: 6pts

Day's total: 40 pts
Weekly Allowance used today: 10 pts

 

Cabbage Soup Recipe

Happy Monday my teaspoons!

I’ve started to receive some comments and feed back from you guys and wanted to say a big THANKS to all of you out there who are supporting me and helping me get new ideas to help me succeed.  Hopefully, my blog will also help YOU succeed.

Some of you have been asking me for the recipe for my cabbage soup.  It’s my mom’s home made recipe.   It’s quite easy and you can pretty much put in whatever you have on hand (or in your refrigerator).  Here it is!

Cabbage soup recipe

Broth:

I make my own broth.  I use a pressure cooker.  You could easily use a normal pot but you will have to let it boil about double the time (about 3hrs instead of an hour and a half).

To make my broth, I use the bones and the skin of a whole chicken that I’ve made earlier in the week (you can also freeze the bones and skin and use them when you want to make soup).  You can also use the skin and bones of a rotisserie BBQ chicken that you have bought at the grocery store.

So here are the ingredients for the Broth:

• Bones and skin of one chicken
• 2-3 celery stalks cut in thirds
• 1 onion cut in a few chuncky pieces
• Water (you will want to fill your pot or pressure cooker to about the 2/3 with water)
• Salt
• Pepper
• Dry Thyme

Put all the ingredients in your pressure cooker or you pot and let boil for about 1 and a half hour (if using a pressure cooker) and about 3hrs if using a normal pot.

Once the broth is ready, use a strainer to separate the solid ingredients from the broth.  Throw the solid ingredients in the trash.  Let the broth cool over night in the fridge.

The next day, peel out, with a spoon, all the fat that will have hardened on top of your broth overnight.

Bring the Broth to a broil.  This is where you can get creative.  Put whatever veggies you like in your boiling broth.  I usually put the following:

•  A Can of diced tomatoes
•  Carrots
•  Turnips
• Celery
• Cabbage
•  Mushrooms

Just remember that some veggies take longer to cook then others.  So put them in according to their cooking time (i.e. the veggies that take the longest to cook should go first and then add the other ones, like cabbage for example, later on).  You can add cooked rice or uncooked pasta at the very end (when all your veggies are cooked) if you desire.  Just remember that this will add points to the total point value of your soup.

Once all the veggies are cooked, you are done.  You can either freeze your soup in portions or you can seal it in Mason jars.

Enjoy J

If you have any questions or need more explanations, let me know.  I tried to write it down the best I could.

Point plus target: 30

Breakfast:

Lightly sweetened quick oats (Apple cinnamon): 3 pts

1 banana : 0 pt

1/2 cup of skim milk: 1 pts

Snack: 

1 apple: 0 pt

Lunch:

Cabbage Soup (2 cups): 4 pts
Soda crackers (6): 2 pts
Fat Free Cheese Slice (2): 1 pts

Greek yogurt (2%): 3 pts

Snack: 

Kiwi: 0pt

Supper:

Pork trimmed (4 oz.): 4 pts
Mashed potatoes (3/4 cup): 5 pts
Broccoli: 0 pts
Mango: 0 pt

Snack: 

Fat free pudding: 2 pts

Banana Bread muffin: 2 pts

Day's total: 27 pts

The Weekend is Almost Over

The weekend is almost over and so is my first week of being back on track. How did your weekend go my little teaspoons? 

As I said on Friday, I saved some of my weekly allowance points to be able to eat a homemade bagel at the market. Well turns out when my boyfriend and I got there, out bagel master wasn't. Sure I could of went off track and stopped at a restaurant and order breakfast. Instead, we decided to go the the groceries store, buy some eggs and English muffins and made some Eggs Benedict's without the Hollander's sauce. Here's a picture of it. I added 3oz of potatoes mixed with mushrooms and onions and a little bit of yogurt with pomegranate. It was a mighty good brunch! You will find the point plus value of everything below. 

We got a rain storm on Saturday night so we didn't do much which helped me stayed on track. What did you do this weekend and how did you stay on track? Let me know by writing in the comment box bellow. 

Here's my weekend's tracking. Can't wait to read what you did this weekend!

Until next time, keep on tracking my teaspoons!

Saturday

Point plus target: 30

Brunch:

Banana: 0 pt

1/2 cup of skim milk: 1 pts
English muffin: 4 pts
Eggs (2): 4 pts
Ham: 1 pt
Potatoes: 3 pts
Yogurt: 2 pts
Pomegranate: 0 pt
Oil: 1 pt

Supper:

Pulled Pork: 8 pts
Pie crust: 1pt
Oil (2 tsp): 2 pts
Green Salad: 0 pts

Snacks: 
Fat Free Pudding: 2 pts
Banana Bread muffin (1): 3 pts
Chocolate: 2 pts

Activity points earned: 0 pt

Weekly Point allowance used today: 3 pts
Day's total: 33 pts

Sunday

Point plus target: 30

Lunch:

Fricot: 9 pts
Half a bun: 2 pts

Supper:
Leftovers mix:

Pulled Pork Pie: 6 pts
Pasta (1 cup): 5 pts
Chicken (2 oz.): 2 pts
Brown Sugar (1 Tbsp): 1 pt

Snacks: 
Fat Free Pudding: 2 pts
Soda crackers (6): 2 pts

Activity points earned: 0 pt

Weekly Point allowance used today: 0 pts
Day's total: 29 pts

TGIF

Happy Friday my Teaspoons!

The weekend is finally here! Did you plan in consequence?  I sure did.  I will be going to the Farmer’s Market tomorrow morning and made sure that I had enough weekly allowance points left so I could get one of those homemade bagels that are so good. I also save some points to be able to drink a glass of wine with my honey tonight. 

I am anxious to see how much weight, if any, I lost this week.  I will get weighted on Wednesday. I’ll write my results on here for you to see.  I’m bracing myself because I know that often, the first week on Weight Watchers, you don’t see much result on the scale.  This usually happens because your body, who is receiving less calories then before, thinks that you are starving it.  Because of this, it will try to keep in all the calories you are eating.  But don’t get discourage!  The second time you’ll hop on that scale (the second week), you’ll usually have dropped some weight.  So just keep on tracking!  This brings me to another thing I wanted to write to you about.  I think that it is very important that you take your measurements.  My first time around on Weight Watchers, I would sometimes get discourage because I would hop on the scale and wouldn’t see any results even though I had exercise a lot.  It’s important to take note of your measurements since often while doing a lot of exercises you’ll lose inches but not pounds.  I’m going to take my measurements this weekend!

Here’s a picture of tonight’s supper.  I wanted to make something that was easy (it IS Friday after all, i.e. Time to RELAX).  I had some left over chicken from that chicken I made two nights ago in the slow cooker so I decided to make some club sandwich.  You’ll find the point plus value of it all below.

Have a great weekend my Teaspoons! Can’t wait to hear from you and your achievements with your weight loss!

Point plus target: 30

Breakfast:

Lightly sweetened quick oats (Apple cinnamon): 3 pts

1/2 cup of skim milk: 1 pts

Snack: 

1 apple: 0 pt

Lunch:

Home made cabbage soup (2 cups): 3 pts

WW bagel: 3 pts

Light Philadelphia Cream Cheese (1 T. spoon): 1 pt

Greek yogurt (2%): 3 pts

Snack: 

Banana: 0pt
Black coffee: 0 pt

Supper:

WW Bread (2 slices): 2 pts
Cheese slice (Fat Free): 1 pt
Bacon (1 slice): 3 pts
Turkey (2 slices): 0.5 pt
Chicken Breast (2.5 oz.): 2.5 pts
Frozen fries (85g): 3 pts
Red wine (5 fluid oz.): 4 pts

Snacks: 
Fat Free Pudding: 2 pts

Activity points earned: 0 pt

Weekly Point allowance used today: 2 pts
Day's total: 32 pts