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The day I used 30 points exactly

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A few Saturdays a year I attend a Crafting charity event put on by two friends. That day is full of fun, new friends, and food that the vendors provide. As a vendor ( I always bring Scentsy so the charity gets more money), I am often asked to bring what the crowd calls lovingly “Crack Chicken”. Now, I could have lightened the “Crack Chicken” up a smidge more than I did for weight watchers but it was already relatively low using Freestyle so I opted to not to change what they know and love so much. So I wanted to start this blog out by giving you that recipe. The whole crock pot came to 12 points. Note- I do not count seasonings as points. If you do- scan them.

Crack Chicken

50 oz Canned Chicken Breast- SCAN THESE! Some points exist depending on what kind you buy. Members Mark Premium does not. (0 POINTS)

10 Ritz Reduced Fat Crackers (add more or less depending on thickness wanted) (4 POINTS)

1 regular can Cream of Chicken with Herbs condensed soup (Getting the 98% fat free Cream of Chicken will cut your points by 1, and will NOT have the flavor this has) (8 POINTS)

2 Tbsp Aimee’s Blue Ribbon Spices Shredded Chicken Seasoning (See below for disclaimer)

1 Tbsp Trader Joe’s Everything but the bagel seasoning.

Cook in Slow cooker on High 4 hours or Low 6-8 hours stirring every few hours. I eat this on lettuce but you can add a bun if you have the points!

NOW if you aren’t in Ohio the Shredded Chicken Seasoning will have to be ordered and shipped to you. You can go to her Facebook Page for contact information: https://www.facebook.com/Aimees-Blue-Ribbon-Spices-193170657373653/

If you are in Ohio you can find her products at:

Der Dutchman Restaurant & Bakery

Der Dutchman Walnut Creek

Dutch Valley Restaurant

Hills Market

Jungle Jim’s International Market Eastgate

Jungle Jim’s International Market Fairfield

Kuhlwein’s Farm Market & Deli

Lannings Foods

Lynd Fruit Farm (Retail tent open August—November)

The Morgan House

Ross Granville IGA (in aisle 5)

Winerak Market

Yutzy’s Farm Market

 

I know what you are thinking. So Kelly- You didn’t eat THAT and get to 30 points that day so HOW did you do it? Welllllll there were walking tacos, and 20 point Italian sub to help with that hah ❤

I hope you enjoyed today’s Blog! What’s a craving you get with high points?! Comment below! ❤

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The week we love(d) carbs…..

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AS per usual,

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Disclaimer- I’ve had a hate/hate relationship with carbohydrates my entire life. Sure they are tasty, but some bodies just do not break things down as they should. If you haven’t been here before:

Hi. My name is Kelly and I have PCOS. PCOS is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and I was diagnosed at 16 years old as post-menopausal. To save us all time if you are interested in more info I typically link people to the Mayo Clinic for understanding- https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pcos/symptoms-causes/syc-20353439

Basically for me it’s hereditary. My two cousins on my father’s side also have it and it’s very possible my sister has it and hasn’t been diagnosed officially. One of the side effects of PCOS can be excess insulin. As I am well… let’s just say it’s been 15ish years of my life watching my carb intake so it’s become somewhat 2nd nature to me.  To say from Sunday to now has been carbolicious… would be an understatement. Here let me show you.

Monday- Well you read the seed in eyeball story last blog. I decided to treat myself to a Popeye’s biscuit after that traumatic experience. That and I had the points. I ate lots of white meat protein that day looking back. Trying to hit this blue dot has become a challenge for me. Had I not ate the biscuit I would have had 15 points left. I don’t know if I’m just not doing this correctly but 30 points is A LOT.

Tuesday- Work drama resulted in my team missing lunch and the company ordering us Domino’s pizza. Hello carbs. I didn’t just eat you Sunday or anything. Wellll 2 pieces of cheese pizza and 14 points later… Lucky for me dinner was soup and low points. We love our copycat Olive Garden Chicken & Gnocchi soup. It is 4 points for a 1.5 cup serving so it’s a lot for little. It’s also 5$ movie night and we got amazing seats to Infinity War. No spoilers here folks. Members get free popcorn but they do not tell you how many cups it is. I believe it was approximately 2 cups so I pointed it as 3 points. Finished my day with 8 points left- AND I ATE PIZZA?!

Wednesday- A random fruit cup was on my desk because my boss brought the team in Breakfast pizza which he knew I wasn’t about to eat given I ate pizza yesterday. I threw out the melon (yuck), and ate the grapes and pineapple because I’m 5. I had another gnocchi (1 cup), a Laughing Cow pepper jack cheese wedge – kind of love them, and Boar’s Head Cracked Pepper Turkey (0 pts) for 5 points. My sister made BBQ Chicken Flatbreads using Joseph’s oat bran and whole wheat lavish bread, G Hughes hickory flavored bbq sauce, free mozzarella & fat free cheddar cheese from Kraft, bacon bits, and jalapenos. It was tasty. We had hummus with Joseph’s oat bran and whole wheat pita chips (we made them in our air fryer) so dinner was 10 points. I also had a light string cheese, flavored Greek yogurt and PB2 yogurt for snacks (3pt) so that brought me to 11 points left for the day and no blue dot. Sigh. I just WASN’T hungry and was 1 point off from a blue dot. I also hit my 47 fit points today.

Wednesday was gym night. High inclines, lower speeds this go round. 35 minutes was all I could squeeze in. It’s a busy weekend so going to be night hours for sure to get it in.

Here’s what the weekend looks like:

Thursday- Work, Scentsy Session, Event Prep – Gym Skip

Friday- Work, Scentsy Event Set Up, Grocery – Gym Night

Saturday- Event, Scentsy Meeting – Gym Skip

Sunday- Scentsy Drop, Scentsy Pickup, Scentsy Party- Gym Night

Saturday is pot luck day…. We’ll see how that ends up J

Question of the day-

What’s your favorite pot luck dish?

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The day a seed flew into my eyeball

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When the others doing Weight Watchers are away….. Do you play? With your food that is….

Let’s just say this week was full of “convenience” foods…….

Thursday- My built in support system left town and I was left to my own devices. My father made me dinner. Yeah. My father doesn’t exactly cook so I was fearful. Not only was I fearful but you cannot say “I can’t eat that” to a person that only makes this gesture once every few years. He reheated a Meatloaf my mother made him and mashed potatoes with gravy. I was glad that I only had 4 points the rest of the day. Dinner was 11 points that night because I barely picked at the Meatloaf. I raced off for a meeting. After the meeting I went to the gym and squeezed in an hour workout. I was told I needed to eat protein but I didn’t have any with me. The time window was within 30 minutes after the workout- which my drive home was longer than that. I stopped at McDonalds and ordered the Grilled Artisan Chicken Sandwich (8pts) and tossed part of the bun off. If I was at home I wouldn’t have consumed any of this. I calculated full points even though the sauce and the bun were the only things with points.

I finished the day with 9 points left.

Friday- Friyay! Thank god I had plans to see some of my FAVORITE people up North. We were heading to Wooster! Our restaurant location changed to Asian food from Mexican food. I had just talked to a Weight Watchers mentor and she told me I needed to eat weeklies. So I treated myself a little. Glass of wine 4 points, Pork Pot Stickers 6 points, Pad Thai w/Chicken 14 points so my dinner alone came to 24 points. I had 10 for breakfast/lunch combined so I used 4 weeklies Friday. My weeklies reset Saturday, but I felt strange touching those points. I also didn’t see a loss AGAIN this week- but I didn’t gain.

I finished Friday at 34 points, 4 points over but still a blue dot!

Saturday- Fun with friend! I also had 3 planned Scentsy deliveries. 1 went through as planned. I started my day off with a Reduced Fat Turkey Bacon sandwich from Starbucks. It’s 5 points and that’s actually not bad. I was starving and knew I was going to lunch with a friend. I planned to have a low point lunch. Boy did I mess that up. I was SO excited to take one of my very best friends Tiffany to Freshii after being introduced to it by my contract rep. I planned to get the Zen salad, but Tiffany ordered a bowl. I had no clue what was in it but I followed suit. Tiffany is also on Weight Watchers. To our disbelief it was 15 points. I had planned to make Ranch Pork Chops for dinner from Pinterest (WW recipe) and knew it would be 9 points. I didn’t leave lunch until after 6pm, not due to food but extreme conversations and reflecting over our lives the past 3 years. This equated to late dinner which worked in my favor, as I ended my day at 29 points- 1 point under.

Sunday- Funday? It was NOT a good points day. After being good alllll day and listening to my sister talk about her point overages and how hard it was to stay on point in Savannah I should have been more determined to stay on point. I’ve been low key upset that I didn’t get to go with them. In the end it ended up 44 points of pizza. (11 per slice, 4 slices total) I had 7 points left when I did it, so 37 weeklies.

Lesson- Don’t eat all your weeklies ( I have 6 left) the first two days you have them. This is my cross to bear and I will be in the gym working off those 4 amazing pieces of pizza from my childhood, and never eating it again lol.

What crazy point food have you spent points on? Comment down below!

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The day I tried to make low point cheesecake… and failed.

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Oh I should have seen THIS coming. My family has a weekend bonding ordeal that includes meal planning while watching Weight Watcher YouTube recipe videos. We stumbled upon Jess- Weight Watcher Journey to Healthy making a cheesecake and my mother’s eyes lit up like a kid at Christmas. Since she is spending Mother’s Day in Georgia without me, I decided to give it a go. I’m pretty decent at baking, typically. I went to Jess’ channel to grab the recipe. The steps looked a little odd but I assumed it was because it had me mix pudding with eggs. Pudding clumps. Eggs aren’t really a great “blending” item. You’re also supposed to do this by hand and not mixer sooooooooo it’s even harder to get rid of clumps. Guess what my finished product tasted like? Eggs with lumps of cheesecake flavored pudding.

Verdict- I’m going to try this again, but my way. I’m going to mix the pudding with the yogurt first. I’m going to add the syrup to the yogurt mix. I’m going to beat the eggs with the stevia and THEN mix them together. I also plan to add a different flavoring, we used vanilla last time. I will do an update when I try this again so you can see the difference. It will have the fail and the (hopefully) correct photos side by side. Make sure you check out Weight Watcher Journey to Healthy on YouTube! I know this is different content than promised but I’ve not had any new foods introduced. I hope you liked it!

We all have fails with conversion recipes. It takes time and patience to get things right. What is one of your recipe disaster stories?

-Sorry this is short and sweet, it’s been a busy week.

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The day I ate all the eggs….

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Ohhhhh I’m oh so bad a blog deadlines. It’s like work knew I planned to make a commitment so it shat everywhere the first week. Heaven knows when you work in IT you never really know what’s going to work or not work in the next 5 minutes.

Instead of what I ate, I’m going to do touch points and my favs or new finds. I “cheated” on Cinco de Mayo and I’m sure you all want to know how I did that AND survived with Weeklies to spare right?

I did promise to tell you about the random dinner from Thursday though so we’ll start there. Are you ready for this…..

  • Trader Joe’s Traditional Gnocchi in Marinara sauce ¼ cup I counted 3pt with ½ oz light mozzarella cheese 1pt and 2 air fried Perdue Simply Smart Breaded chicken breast tenders 3 pts
  • Boar’s Head Smoked Ham 2pt
  • 2 Eggs friend in Pam- 0pt
  • Aunt Millie’s Healthy Goodness Fiber for Life Light Potato Bread 2 slices 2pt.

So basically I had a TON of points- and needed to use them up all at dinner. I really need to work on my point distributions. ALL THAT FOOD – 11pts. I still needed at least 5 points to get to my blue dot- so I ate a tbsp of peanut butter hah.

Friday was a standard day for me. Dinner was Popeye’s with my sister. We did this thing where we split Cajun Fries though and they were delicious. I do miss french fries sometimes. It was nice to be able to share some and not feel guilty! We all know I love their Blackened Chicken tenders. For some reason I recorded Halo Top as breakfast. I left it like that. It makes me look like I don’t care if I eat sweets for breakkie. To clarify- I ate it around 7pm instead.

Cinco de Mayo is a tradition. We go to the same place EVERY.SINGLE.YEAR. Chile Verde off Sawmill Rd in Dublin, Ohio. It’s a quaint family run joint that serves up Tex Mex style dishes. They throw one heck of a celebration. We get a free t-shirt every single year. This year I went with Chicken Fajitas with no onions, extra peppers. I limited my tortilla chip intake by splitting them with 3 other friends. I even had a margarita. My lunch total rolled in about 25 points. PS I didn’t eat breakfast to prep for this event. 5 points left for dailies, but I knew I was going out with a friend that evening. I typically do not eat out as much as I have the past week. I’ve been making an effort to reconnect with people and well- they like to do that with food. Having places with healthy options helps. That night we went to Buffalo Wild Wings. I got naked grilled tenders with a side of garlic parm which I ended up not using much of at all. I also ordered the veggie boat with a side of ranch. I barely used the ranch as well. I did splurge on some fried pickles though. One serving was only 8 points though, and my other items were 0 points, except my dips which I collectively counted 1 point for. Thanks to their efforts to put lower caloric foods on their menu, I will definitely go back to BDubs. My allotted points: 30. My total used: 34. Weeklies left 45.

We made one of my FAVORITE things Sunday. Breakfast Pizza!

stuff

  • Joseph Lavish Flatbread ( 2 pt for 1)
  • Egg Beaters Southwest Eggs ( 0 pt )
  • Real Bacon Bits ( we used Oscar Meyer)
  • McCormick Sausage Flavored Gravy mix (1 pt per ¼ cup)
  • Reduced fat Mexican shredded cheese
  • Kraft fat free cheddar shredded cheese

We baked the flat bread and then flipped it. We made the mix per instructions and put 1/2 cup as the sauce. We made scrambled eggs and added those, then topped with cheese and bacon bits. 4 pieces (half the lavish bread) was 5pts. It will differ based on the cheese you use.

I’ll save Monday thru Wednesday for tomorrow! 😉

I have to type about from yesterday, as it was one of my busiest days this week. My sister and my mother leave for Savannah tomorrow and I’m crushed since I have to stay here due to my contract position. No days off here until July.  XO

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The day the post was late

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I know it’s been a minute. I have to try to figure out if I want to do these daily or weekly. Want to see updates more frequently? Find me on Social:

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So since today is Thursday I think I’ve bi- weekly. I’m going to do Monday-Wednesday post on Thursday (Which obviously I missed this week). Then Thursday through Sunday, post on Monday. So there you have it- decision made.

Ah Monday, the start of a new week. Most dread it. I’m okay with it.

Breakfast- Banana

Total Breakfast Points: 0

Lunch Time! I am living for wraps currently. I found super low carb Ole Mexican Foods Xtreme Wellness High Fiber, low carb wraps (1pt) and they make life easy peasy. I just fill em, put em in a baggie and out the door I go. Here’s what mine has today:

Boar’s Head Fully Cooked Bacon – 3 slices (2pt)

Boar’s Head Chipotle Chicken Breast slices – 2oz (0pt)

Trader Joe’s Lite shredded Mexican blend cheese- 1/8 cup (probably less but this is what I track) (1pt)

Total Points for wrap: 4

I added a side of Baked Ruffles Cheddar & Sour Cream chips (4pt)

Total Lunch Points: 8

Snack time- I’m mad at myself still for spending so much on Hormel Turkey Pepperoni sticks (1pt) but they are good, quick, and great for on the go. Same with Frigo Light String Cheese except those are cheap (1pt).

Total Snack points: 2

Dinner Time- This was a chore. We had plans but they got busted. The swister ended up cooking and it typically goes two ways: Asian or Mexican. This night it went Asian.

Trader Joe’s Kung pao chicken (1 cup prepared 6pt)

Veetee Dine In Long Grain Rice (1/4 cup 2pt)

Ikea Foods Vegetable balls (3 balls 2pt)

Total Dinner Points: 10

Ended my day with a blue dot and 10 points left.

 

Tuesday Try it out day

Ah new stuff try out day. I adopted this mindset. Every Tuesday I will try something new to me. Today it’s Kind Fruit Bites – Cherry & Apple are the only two ingredients. It’s a small bag and I added it with breakfast today with a banana.

Total Breakfast Points: 3

Lunch was 1/3 cup long grain white rice (2pt), bell peppers, grilled chicken breast chunks and a little bit of soy sauce.

Total Lunch Points: 2

Snack #1 was a Frigo light string cheese- are we surprised? Later I had ½ a cup of Halo Top Vanilla Bean Light Ice Cream with Walden farms 0 calorie Caramel Dip, and fat free Redi Whip and a Banana (2pt)

Total Snack Points: 3

DINNNNNNNNNNER TIIIIIIIIME and it’s close to Taco Tuesday lol Turkey Enchiladas. We put these in the recipe builder and it’s 1 for 3 or 2 for 7 pts and they are decently sized. We use the following items:

99% Lean ground Turkey 0

Diced Green Chiles 0

Corn- drained 0

Low Sodium Black Beans not in any sauce drained. 0

Seasoning Packet

Ole Wellness wraps (1pt each)

Red Enchilada Sauce (top) 0

Trader Joe’s Lite Blend Mexican cheese 2 for ¼ cup

Kraft Fat Free Mild Cheddar cheese 0

So good. So easy. Not a lot of points.

I was SO low in points that when we did our Popeyes Blackened Chicken Tender run for lunches the rest of the week I got their Cajun Mashed Potatoes and gravy (individual size ya’ll) for 4pt.

Dinner Total: 11pt

Ended the day with a blue dot and only 20 points consumed.

 

Wacky Wednesday

You’ll see that when we hit dinner time today there was a snafu. Failure to plan left us in a pickle.

Breakfast- I bet you already know what I had for breakfast.

Total Breakfast Points: 0

Lunch: Wrap Wrap Baby Same as Monday but substitute 2 Popeye’s blackened chicken tenders for the chipotle chicken and not enough bacon bits to hit points, plus a spicy pepperjack cheese wedge. 3pt and baked Cheetos 3pt. I had some fresh fruit as well for 0 points

Total Lunch Points: 6

Snack Time means string cheese time 1pt! I also had a Buddig Chicken pack for 2pt. To try to get my points higher (Two days at 10 points under typically leaves me without a loss) I ate a tbsp. of Jiff whipped peanut butter for 2 pt.

Total Snack Time Points: 5

The day we all were late for dinner…. My sister and I both got stuck in horrific traffic. Neither of us made it home until almost 7pm and at that point what we had planned for dinner would have taken too long to make, we would have eaten late as well. Kylie stopped at Wendy’s to grab her dinner while I headed to Taco Bell. What- I had 24 points left!

What I get at Taco Bell sometimes changes. Note there are lower point options. The Fresco style shredded chicken taco is only 3 points and the fresco style crunchy or soft beef tacos are 4 each. . I hate tomatoes and onions, so that option isn’t for me. A chicken taco is 5 points and when I eat chicken every day of the week it’s nice to get something “beef”. I urge you to go on the app and look at Taco bell because they have several items in the 3-7 pt range so you can actually splurge a little bit J

Doritos Nacho Cheese Locos Taco (5)

Pintos & Cheese (6)

Shredded Chicken Mini Quesadilla (6)

Total Dinner Points 17

I ended Wednesday with 2 points left.

Wait until you see Thursday’s randomness. I’ve been craving some weird combos (nope not pregnant) and things are getting creative to say the least. Saturday is Cinco De Mayo and will be the first time I’ve had alcohol since starting Weight Watchers at the end of January. My weeklies reset on Saturdays of course so we’ll see what happens hah. ❤

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The day that just didn’t go right.

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Let’s start from the very beginning; it’s a very good place to start. (Who has this song stuck in your head now?) Hi friends. Today just… isn’t a glass half full day.

  1. I woke up late.
  2. We were out of coffee! (Insert scream face here)
  3. I was running late. (Which means no stopping to get coffee)
  4. My blog post about my day yesterday- gone. My system rebooted and I didn’t save it or send it to my phone.

So here’s how this is going to go. This post is going to be way less funny and cool than what I originally wrote.

Thursday

I closed ALL of my activity rings. This is an apple watch thing but I believe you can do this with your iPhone. Don’t shoot me if I’m incorrect there. I did 874/380 calories, 45/30 minutes of exercise, and 15/12 stand hours. I did 11,490 steps. I also got to try some more of the Weight Watcher branded snacks. Thursday it was Sea Salt & Hummus Chips and a Mocha Coffee Crunch mini bar.

0pt Breakfast: Boring today as it was just a banana.

2pt Mid-Morning Snack: Mocha Coffee Crunch mini bar by Weight Watchers. NOT.A.FAN. Cardboardy taste. Not getting this one again.

5pt Lunch: White Chicken Chili (1pt) which is only points because of seasonings. It’s a McCormick seasoning packet, water, chicken breast, and cans of white beans (make sure you scan yours).

Hormel Turkey Stick (1pt) Now I like these but a bag of 5 were over 5$ and so we won’t buy these again. Not unless we find a coupon or they are on sale. It can just eat 16 pieces of turkey pepperoni from the bag and call it a day.

Sea Salt & Hummus Chips by Weight Watchers (2pt) but 0 flavor. I ended up using a Spicy Pepper jack Laughing Cow Wedge (1pt) to make these edible.

1pt Afternoon Snack: Frigo Light String Cheese. We love a staple low point food.

14pt Dinner: Hear me out on this. You’re going to say “Kelly, how did you eat pizza for only 14 points?” Jet’s Thin Crust Pepperoni & Cheese Pizza. It’s only around 3pt per square. It’s in the tracker as 14 points for 5 squares. I also ended up eating 2 Popeye’s Blackened Chicken tenders after our walk which I counted as part of dinner. 2 is 0pts.

3pt Evening Snack: Maybe I bit unconventional- a Buddig Beef Packet. I wanted extra protein because of all the walking I did today and I needed to kill 3 more points. You can only roll over 4.

On our evening stroll my sister told me about a cult in Oregon that somehow flew under the radar called Rajneeshpuram. She apparently watched a Netflix documentary called Wild Wild Country. Let’s just say it’s pretty crazy to listen to. She went into how they picked up homeless people and brought them to their town in order to try to stay in control politically and sensing there was fraudulent behavior they stopped voter registration. That’s only happened twice ever to my knowledge. She saved me from having to tune in though. Check it out if you’re intrigued. If you prefer to read apparently there is a book called The New Republic and also The Oregonian’s 20 part investigation. The things you find out when you get outside.

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The day I wore my apple watch on my ankle

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First off LET me tell you all about how I almost died at the gym last night. 9.1 Inclines. That’s how. It was killer but I made it through! 300 calories burned in 35 minutes. My apple watch committed a hate crime when it failed to calculate a single step during that time. Apparently I cannot hold on to the heart rate monitors or it will not count my steps. Since I use the fat burn program the treadmill requires my heart rate or it slows me down/lowers my incline automatically. Thus the title of today’s blog- as I’m truly wearing my apple watches on my right ankle. Since my orientation is left wrist… I probably should have switched it to right wrist (after several hours I now think of this). I will say it was quite annoying that every single time I had a phone call my ankle vibrated. This is more than likely the highlight of my day.

Oh for the record- this is Wednesday and you’ll be reading it on Thursday 😉

Don’t get too excited, it’s a semi boring food day in my land.

2pt Breakfast, 123 calories

Oh wait! I tried the Weight Watchers Cinnalicious Swirls today! This is one of those gifted snacks. I swear I’ve tasted these somewhere previously. I just can’t recall who made them. Nevertheless- I’d eat these in almond milk like cereal if you miss it! Only 2 pts for the bag (17g) and if you use ¼ c of almond milk it’s 0 pts. I didn’t- but I would.

Red Seedless Grapes, Mandarin Oranges, Strawberries rounded out my breakfast as well.

Why is my stomach growling at 11:45? This is a problem I’ve not had ever. I typically eat anywhere between 12-1pm. I normally do not hear this noise before 12:30. Could this be due to my crazy workout last night?

8pt Lunch, 337 calories

Wrap: You can see yesterday, 1.5 blackened Popeye’s chicken tenders, 1 wedge Laughing Cow pepperjack cheese, 2 slices Boar’s Head fully cooked bacon, 1/8 cup (but not really) Trader Joe’s Lite Mexican Cheese in a Ole Mexican Food Xtreme Wellness Wrap: 257 calories 6pt

Nacho Cheese Supreme 80 calories 2pt

It’s 2:30 pm and that growling noise happened AGAIN. Now- I skipped my second round of coffee and I bet that’s why this snack attack is early.

3pt Work

Snack, 100 calories: Skinny Pop Ultra Lite White Cheddar Popcorn individual bag

You may be wondering- Kelly why are you counting calories in blog #3? Well this is something my sister started. There was a fear that her lack of loss was being caused by caloric starvation mode. I saw a chance to play with data and it excited me (Hi I mentioned I was in IT right? I am in fact a nerd.)

Based on my weight and my first goal MyFitnessPal.com determined I should be eating 1750 calories a day to meet my goal. As of right now I’ve used 560 calories. To lose 1 pound you have to essentially burn 3,500 calories.

5pt Dinner: It was soupalooza in my house last night. White Bean Chicken Chili (1pt) and Vegetable Beef Soup (3pt) which I of course ate with Nabisco Goo Thins Corn Ones (1 pt for 15pieces).

We took a brisk short walk and I put together an IKEA Alex Shelf which was exhausting.

3pt Evening Snack: Hormel Turkey Pepperoni Stick 1pt, Halo Top Vanilla Bean Ice Cream (1/2 cup 2pt) with Walden Farms Caramel Dip (0pt)

I ended my day with 10 points left. I just wasn’t hungry after.

❤ I bet I sleep well tonight ❤

 

 

 

 

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What I ate on Weight a Watchers: It’s a Monday!

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April 23rd, 2018

Let me preface. I’m a weird human. Most reading this already know this and I’m writing this for those just now dippin’ their toes in my realm. It feels like I always doing stuff and it’s never a dull moment.  I work full time as an Applications Engineer (Fancy IT title) as well as own and operate my Scentsy business full time with a team of over 60 people. I’m in an accelerated leadership program as well with Scentsy currently. I am on the go a lot. Things happen after 5 pm quickly and sometimes weird combos happen. 😉 Disclaimer over. Let’s go!

I drink a 32-ish oz coffee every morning throughout the duration of my work day. It’s Starbucks Blonde Roast Iced Coffee that you can purchase from the grocery aisle and it’s 0 points. I add 2 tbsp of Torani Sugar Free Smores Syrup (also 0 points), and 1 tbsp sugar free creamer or unsweetened almond milk for 0 points- because I personally do not like to drink calories or points. This is a personal preference. I drink a LOT of bean juice as I am in IT and it’s like a job requirement basically. Now let’s start the day!

0pt Breakfast: I eat around 9:30-10. I get to work between 7-8:30 am but I do not get hungry before then typically. I have a 9 am meeting daily so this works out.

2 cup fruit (mandarin orange segments, strawberry slices, red seedless grapes)

This gets me through to lunch. I switch my fruit up so some days it’s a banana. You’ll see as you read on.

8 pt Lunch: 4 oz Boar’s Head lemon pepper chicken breast lunch meat, 1 Laughing Cow cheese wedge Asiago flavor, Thomas Bagel Thins in Everything Bagel flavor, and PopChips BBQ flavor potato snack.

This was a new flavor we found at a supreme grocery store near Cincinnati, Ohio. It was super tasty with the Asiago cheese wedge so I hope I can find it somewhere in Columbus. I toasted my bagel thin the night before to keep it from getting soggy. I didn’t miss mayo or mustard because the cheese wedge was so creamy. The PopChips were a great swap for real potato chips. It’s 4 points though just for a serving.

7 pt Snack: So snack 1 while at work. That 3 pm need something to not crash snack was a Frigo Light Cheese Stick for 1 pt. It reminds me of my childhood and you basically get to play with your food. Nothing wrong with that.

I also had a guilty pleasure splurge snack. I do not typically eat a snack over 4 pts. The grocery in Cincinnati also has the most amazing Pepperoni & Cheese bread. I ate 1/8th of a serving which calculated to 6 pts. It was worth every.single.bite.

My life is semi crazy. You can plan and things go wrong. Tonight we were supposed to have black pepper chicken and peppers. Peppers were prepped however the chicken did not thaw. IN FACT- it was still frozen solid after being in the refrigerator for 24 hours. Lesson learned. This meant scrambling around. Which led me to this lovely dinner.

8 pt Dinner: Egg Whites, scrambled with Lite Trader Joe’s Mexican blend cheese. 2 oz Boar’s Head Cajun roast beef fried in a skillet with 1 slice thin sliced provolone cheese (we used Meijer brand). 1 piece Aunt Millie’s Lite potato bread spritzed with I Can’t Believe it’s not butter spray. 1/4 cup Bob Evans Mashed potatoes with 1/8 cup Heinz Fat Free Savory Beef gravy. Like a deconstructed Beef Hash with a different kind of potato. It was good contrary to being written on a screen. It was quick which was important because out the door I went to deliver Scentsy to a customer. I also was gifted some fun Weight Watcher branded snacks to try so stay tuned for tomorrow’s blog! ❤

**Eventually I will remember to take pictures of my food before devouring it.**