New Year's Resolutions

Anyone? Anyone?

Mine is simply "to be even more successful in accomplishing all my goals."

cottage cheese

not talking about my thighs here, about the food cottage cheese. i love it again. i think i used to eat it so much i got burned out, but now its back in my fridge! YEAH!

I'm a big fart.

If I am what I eat... and that chili was good... then I'm a big (goood) fart. HA AH HA

I'm also a slice of mango bread with peanut butter and a handful of trailmix.

Not good!

I ate too much yesterday and Sunday. AND I ate junk yesterday... then I slept in this morning instead of going for a jog. Ugh - I hate running in the afternoon... but after the last two days I better or it will come back and bite my in the arse! :-)

My pants are NOT fitting better.

Shouldah wouldah couldah

I should have kept counting yesterday - Linda and I started making cookies and I had to taste a few of them (they were small, but still.... too many) and I feel bad. Dang it!

It's coming...

I'm so excited, the scale was good to me this morning! It could have something to do with the fact that I had literally just come back from the gym this morning but either way I lost a pound! Wooowhooo!

EVERY ONE COUNTS. Everyone counts. I like this little play on words phrase - ok computer is taking WAY too long to archive some emails (I have to before I lose them) and I so don't have time to wait. UGH.

2 Cottage cheese

I'll count for you today...

Hump Day

hehehe.

So today my goal is no Starbucks, not even hot chocolate. I have half of my coke zero from yesterday and then after that the goal is no more soda during the week...slowly but surely...baby steps! :)

2 pts - yogurt
2 pts - 3/4 of a banana...the rest was brown and gross.
5 pts - Banana Nut Bread Protien/Energy bar
8 pts - Chicken & Cheese Quesadilla (actually two 4-pt servings, but who's counting?? Oh wait! I am!)

Like 2 sips of water. I didn't bring my bottle of water today and drinking out of a cup isn't the same...how's that for a lame ass excuse!

only done a half a cup of water. HUNGRY. Is it lunch time yet?

My damn toes hurt.

What does that have to do with food you ask?

EVERYTHING at this point.

Exercising makes my toes hurt - I think its because I can't find the perfect length for my nails and jogging on them for 30+ minutes HURTS after a while. I love my shoes. Maybe I need thicker socks too? UGH.

I've gone back down from what the scale said yesterday (the post about the scale being mean), that is good. But will I ever meet my goals?

UGH.

I'll just keep on chuggin along, because the alternative IS worse (just debating on which is more enjoyable today). Ya know?!

Cleansed and Reborn...

Or something. It's not raining here, but I'll roll with it... :)

Went grocery shopping last night...got food for breakfast, lunch, morning snacks and afternoon snacks, and then got up and packed my lunch this morning. Woo Hoo! :)

2 pts - Yoplait light...the old standard. Worked last time!
2 pts - 1/2 cup Curves Cereal (in my yogurt..it's actually 3 pts for a serving and a serving is 1 cup, but I wasn't too precise on the measurments, so I"ll go with 2 pts)
5 pts - Toffee Nut Buzz Protien Bar (mid morning snack - totally hit the spot)
6 pts - Smart Ones Frozen Dinner
2 pts - 100 cal pack of Sun Chips
1 pt - Baby carrots
0 pts - Coke Zero (20 oz)
4 pts - iced tall non-fat peppermint hot chocolate (yeah, I iced my hot chocolate, what??) :)
**Not sure how many points dinner was...Amy, Stacia and I split a Trader Joes frozen cheese pizza (I'll have to look up the nutritional info next time I'm there), so we each had two slices, then a baby spinach and romaine salad and fruit salad with a little whipped cream for dessert. All in all fairly healthy, though I think portion sizes were a little big.


I need to be drinking more water though! K, I've had 48 ounces of water thus far today. I like the word thus. Anywho...48 ounces is good. If I can down another bottle (24 oz) before I leave and one more at home, I will be happy with today's water consumption.

Well, that is odd

Got on the scale today to weigh three pounds more. Maybe turkey day really caught up to me? Maybe I didn't do as well not eating while baking cookies?

It's raining. Rebirth. Let's try again, third time hitting weight watcher's goal is charm, right?!

Turkey Hangover

Ok, back on the horse...

(the low-fat, low-cal, high fiber horse,ahahahah)

5 pts - Spinach and Feta wrap (Starbucks)
3 pts - brocolli cheese soup (Quiznos) - love it!
4 pts - Cheddar cheese sunchips
8 pts - Caramel Pecan Muffin with Pecans (Reduced Fat - hahah!)
4 pts - iced tall non-fat peppermint hot chocolate
5 pts - WW dessert (2)
6 pts - Healthy Choice Frozen Dinner

35 PTS TOTAL (My daily allowance is 32...so not too bad, considering flex points. But I want to try not to use them since Thanksgiving was last week!)

Can you tell I need to go grocery shopping??? I totally went to starbucks with the girls, conveniently forgetting my no coffee thing...but realized just in time and got hot chocolate instead. Slowly weaning myself off the habit...

Working on my 2nd bottle of water (24 oz down, 48 ounces to go) water and Sprite Zero. Today is day 5 without Starbucks coffee. (had to modify the statement)

Finished the 2nd bottle of water but also had a coke zero...no points, but not doing well on the no soda thing!! (At least I had NO diet coke or coffee while at work):)

No excuse for the holidays!

We're right in the middle of the holidays and there is no excuse for gaining weight over the holidays! Eat more means exercise more and be even better with what you eat and how much around the days before/after the gatherings.

For what may be the first time, I've managed to do this. I had a thin slice of key lime pie and a slightly larger piece of pumpkin cheesecake and was way stuffed - but had quite "small" portions compared to years past and didn't go back for seconds. I weighed in 7 pounds heavier by the end of the day - thought that was hilarious. Next day, right back on track and today I weigh what I did the day before turkey day! Thanks to a long run and good eating afterwards the holiday was no excuse.

Back to losing!

Good on ya for the no soda! You can do it! I haven't had a soda in over a MONTH! Not even diet! I have had two non-fat iced mochas from starbucks, but not having the sode EVERY day is cool. Who knew that diet white cranberry juice (with half water) tasted SO GOOD? I hate red cranberry juice too.... ha!

Time goes on... let the thin person show herself! Christmas is just around the corner......

I am a thin person...in progress

hehe! That's what the weightwatcher leader said on Sat. a.m. as we were leaving...it was part of a sort of cult like chant...hehe, not that bad, but still kinda funny. But I loved the first line...

Weekend = bad

Monday = starting over. Oh so classic.

5 pts - Spinach, feta, roasted tomato wrap (starbucks 240 cal, 10g fat, 7 g fiber...not bad!)
4 pts - iced tall non-fat caramel macciatto
8 pts - 2 vegetable spring rolls, Hana Grill
0 pts - Edamame - yum, soybeans! :)
4 pts - 1/2 cup serving of ice cream cake for Jessie's bday

Don't worry - I'm so up there right now I get TONS of points. :) :(

Oh, and PS -- that WW meeting on Saturday was at 7 a.m. YES, I got up at 7 a.m.

I'm trying to quit soda cold turkey today. From now on all my rum is going to be drank (drunk?) straight up on the rocks! LOL

It's 4:02 and still no soda! A mini-record for me lately!

You're back!

Oh the page felt so empty without you. I need you to bitch with me, don't ever leave me again!

I really didn't want to exercise this morning. I did, and am glad its over with - but according to my schedule I have to go back and lift weights after work. It's better with a plan, with a schedule. Need to feel like I have to do it, or something.

I ate bad things yesterday. Going to focus on that - two scoops of rainbow sherbert ice cream in the middle of the day. Trail mix. Beef jerky. Big serving of pasta (it says low carbs and had 12g of protein?!). A whole peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Edamame. Cheese stick. Cheese on my beans and corn (leftover from burritos). Cottage cheese. Sour cream on everything. It wasn't necessarily bad things, just really BAD QUANTITIES. No water. No soda either, but no water.

Today is a new day? Started with an apple. And water.

Back to life...back to reality...

Or something.

3 - Yogurt drink thingy
3 - Licorice Candy

Forgot to mention

That on the way back from camping we all stopped for lunch - we shared a salad and a ham n cheese sandwich. No fries. Split a piece of key lime pie because the menu said it was award winning....

so that was our dessert for this week already! No more dessert until Thanksgiving! AHHHH!!

Doing well!

We went out for our first dessert - Mattheson's for ice cream and a cookie to share. SO GOOD. Didn't finish the cookie! Can you believe that? We're doing well after our official "diet" and we have an exercise plan in place too...

will we keep it all up?

I sure hope so. Makes me nervous, feel like I've been here before. It is SO MUCH EASIER with someone else doing it right beside you though!

SO COME BACK TO BLOGGING. You're not alone.

Oh the time change....

Well, I can't tell you how exciting it is to have Jackson want to lose weight with me! We're taking advantage of the time change and getting up early tomorrow morning to hit the gym before work! YEAH! It will only be Mon/Weds for me and he works out Tues/Thurs/Fri with his command. I have to keep a swim or two going in the afternoon... and I also have to come home from working out by 6:30am in order to take dixie out for a walk and get her tired before work starts!

Speaking of that... it is going to be a crazy busy two weeks.... with work.

The diet we're doing until Thursday has been easy (I so wanted to say a piece of cake, ha! ...guess I just did). We're just practicing to keep the mental game of eating better and eating less for when we're "off" the "diet." I hate saying diet.

One more thing before I go... he tells EVERYONE we're doing this, and it is just so weird. It is kinda nice in a way, but I do feel embarassed a bit when everyone knows. I think I need to get over it, in a way its better to have everyone know because then you need to have results... know what I mean?

come back to blogging. :-(

A week before weigh in!

So we've made a pack to have a stricter diet including cabbage soup the next seven days. Wish us luck! I've held off three pounds since the last one, but that means I gained four back - I know what its from - WISCONSIN CHEESE. And dessert in general. Ugh. We bought rainbow sherbert though, I was so proud - after we looked at all of them too. HA!

WHERE ARE YOU!?

Didn't do well

I did okay this weekend, hard with company in town. Not entirely great today either, but I'm getting on the bandwagon. More fruit and veggies in general. Long live healthy foods. Bye, I have to go drink more water.

Bananas, bananas, bananas.

Thats what I'm eating today.... lots of bananas.

:-) (Going bananas too?)

Fruit & Veggie Day

....on the cabbage soup diet! We're only doing it for five days though, and I hope it jump starts some good habits like eating more fruits and veggies and drinking more tea then red bull. So far so good, I actually don't mind it - just missing a little protein but we'll make up for it. Wonder how many points it is?

Where are you?

where'd you go? I miss you so... feels like its been forever....

anyway.

2-cereal
1-milk
2-chips
6-bread & peanut butter

hamburgers for dinner, no buns

I think I need to learn about the core plan and switch. Not liking the counting.

Must... keep...... b-l-o-gg-i-n-g....

2-cereal
1-milk

? homemade lasagna 6 pts?
? bread with garlic salt 3 pts?

8 - homemade bean burritoes
7 - popcorn with chocolate

27 total?

water - yep

p.s. I did better in Chicago then I do at home, wazzup with that?! sigh.

Starting over again...

ok, back to the drawing board:

6 pts - breakfast brownie :)
6 pts - Lean pocket
0 pts - baby carrots
0 pts - Minute maid light
4 pts - Stacy's Pita Chips


Running Total: 16 Flex Points remaining: 16

Making up for lost points...

Friday...

Um, yeah.

4 pts - 1/2 bagel & cream cheese
2 pts - yogurt
10 pts - 1/2 serving chicken costoletta
4 pts - pudding and cookies (100 cal pack)
6 pts - lean pocket
0 pts - pickles


Saturday...

4 pts - mocha power bar
2 pts - yogurt
2 pts - 100 cal pack cookies
0 pts - Cherry Coke Zero
8 pts - cheese
10 pts - wine
0 pts - carrots/celery/brocolli
2 pts - hummus
4 pts - cookies
5 pts - M & Ms
5 pts - wheat thins/crackers
5 pts - after dinner mints

47 pts...yeah. Can't imagine why I didn't lose this week!!

Sunday...not much better :(

10 pts - Frontego Chicken Panini (Panera Bread)
7 pts - Fuji Apple Chicken Salad (Panera Bread)
4 pts - Veggie Chips
0 pts - pickles
5 pts - M & Ms
5 pts - Mints
5 pts - brownies
8 pts - cookies
6 pts - lean pocket

50 pts!

Bah humbug

2 - cereal
1 - milk
5- smart ones
4 - peanut butter
1 - chips

13 so far

water - 34 oz

Thursday already??

Ok, so I'm really ready to weigh in now because I feel like I'm doing well and I don't want another couple of days to screw it up!!!

4 pts - Eggo whole grain blueberry waffles (2)
6 pts - SmartOnes Santa Fe Rice & Beans (my FAVORITE!)
0 pts - Coke Cherry Zero
2 pts - applesauce
6 pts - lean pocket
3 pts - wine (6 oz)
2 pts - ww icecream bar
2 pts - 100 cal pack of cookies
2 pts - ww ice cream bar (yeah, another one!)
2 pts - Reese's PB Cup (1)


Running total: 29

Water: What is water? (I know, I know, I'll drink some!!!)

Which end is up?

How can today be so crazy already? Geesh.


2 - Key Lime Pie (yogurt that is) ;-)
2 - bread
2- peanut butter
1 - jelly
5 - pasta salad
1- ice cream
.5 - grapes

13.5 - so far afternoon 4:30pm

2- green beans
6- turkey burgers made from cooking light cookbook with roasted red pepper relish and no buns
2- sweet potato (home-made on the bbq) fries - never liked sweet potatoes until they met my grill with emril's essence
3- milk

5? 10? 15? popcorn with chocolate

Water: 24.9oz

I forgot lunch again. UGH.

So far, so good, but it is early!

3 pts - Luna Bar, Chai Tea flavor (not the best, but it hit the spot while driving to work today)
2 pts - animal cookies (100 cal pack, chocolate yum)
1 pts - Activa yogurt (it's only 4 oz, but it has fiber and it's pretty filling)
3 pts - 1 cup of broccolli cheese soup (Quizno's) - damn near licked the bowl on that one!
0 pts - pickles
0 pts - 1 can Cherry Coke Zero...so much better than plain diet coke for a change!
4 pts - pudding and animal cookies
2 pts - apple sauce
5 pts - Healthy Choice Manicotti
2 pts - Pita
0 pts - cherry coke zero
2 pts - weight watchers oreo cookie ice cream bar
2 pts - 100 cal pack choc chip cookies


Running Total: 26
Water: 16 oz

Salads. Focusing on salads.

I think I should have a salad soon....

For the rest of the week. Salads can be zero points you know. If you put enough veggies in them you hardly need dressing. Or, put 1 point of black beans on instead of dressing! hee hee.... I will have one today.

2 - cereal
1 - milk
1 - two pieces dried fruit
1- half a chicken breast
2 - beans and corn

2- chocolate WW ice cream

9 - so far 4:51 pm

Oh my god. I survived whorederves:

0-pickles
? cupcake
? - one rum and diet coke

And I'm not really that hungry?! What is up with that. I'm going to end the day though with smart ones 5 pts. SWEET.

water - 50.7 oz


****I think I have 9 flex points left. Its Wednesday. I'm going out tonight for a crazy KW thing where the menu is whorederves (LOL) Not good. Not really whorederves, I just never spell it right****

There are no wagons here!!!

Ok, today is a new day!!!

I haven't had anything to eat...but I've had water...yay water.

I was running late this morning so all I have are 100 calorie packs of animal cookies, an orange and a lean pocket...nothing tastes as good as thin feels!!!

I may have to get some 3 point brocolli cheese soup! (I'm still waiting for them to come back and say...whoops we had the points wrong on that one!!! )

1 pt - Orange. I actually like oranges. I had forgotten that. I think I'm going to the store to get more today :O)
6 pts - lean pocket
2 pts - animal cookies (100 cal. pack)
3 pts - iced tall non-fat caramel mocha (Starbucks)**
4 pts - pudding and crushed animal crackers
3.5 pts - hummus (3.5 servings - like half a little tub. shit is good!)
0 pts - carrots (with the hummus!)
4 pts - Healthy Choice cheesy chicken and rice...more fiber than the Smart Ones! But didn't taste as good.
2 pts - WW ice cream bar
4 pts - chips ahoy 100 calorie pack ( 2 of 'em...damn late night snacking!)
2 pts - toffee ice cream bar (weight watchers)

I need to go to bed earlier. I eat less.
**Had to have it! Only 3 pts. I know, I'm bad. This means no pudding snack for me this afternoon...or maybe no dessert....we'll see how it all works out.

Running Total: 31.5
water: 48 0z

Falling off the wagon?

I have had no strength the last few nights. I haven't gone crazy with real candy bars and ice cream but I certainly have over done it with fudge pops, pudding, and chocolate chipped popcorn. I want to blame PMS, but I almost think that is just an excuse.... am I falling off the wagon?


2 - cereal
1 - milk
2- fruit cup
1- a few chips
1 - small amount dried fruit
2.5 - black bean burrito (no kidding! 1pt tortilla 1 pt beans .5 pts for 1 tbsp feta)
2.5 - black bean burrito (yes I entered this twice)
(ugh, I'm hungry)
0- cherry zero coke

3 - grilled chicken breast (with just montreal seasoning which is zero)
3 - black beans and corn as a side
2 - salad with oil & vinegar (and very light on the pouring...sigh)
2 - skim milk
1-WW Ice cream
3 - WW dessert
5 - popcorn with tiny chocolate morsels (probably dumped 1/3 cup in, should have measured plus popcorn is 1 pt for the bag and I shared this with jackson so.... I think this is pretty accurate?)

31 - is that right? oh man. I'm totally lost on where I am this week. falling.... off.... wagon...

i had today.... so far...

1 chicken sandwich with 3 tbsp of bbq sauce (5 points)

1 frappachino lite (3 points)

7 tortilla chips and 1 tbsp of cheese salsa (6 points)

1 south beach protein bar (dont know about the points on that)

2 cups skim milk (2 points)

i need to drink some water...

Just another manic monday...

OK, back to business. Gotta be on it and try not to use any more flex points!!! I brought my lunch today so that's a start!

3 pts - Luna Protien Bar - S'mores flavor
3 pts - Cinnamon Streudal (sm. slice)
2 pts - Hershey's Kisses (3)
8 pts - Mocha Ice Blended - wow, EJ brought it to me as a surprise, and I didn't say no. Thank god I didn't eat lunch!!!
2 pts - 100 calorie Curves strawberry granola bar
6 pts - Lean pockets Pizza pocket thingy
2 pts - WW ice cream bar


Running Total: 26
Water - 5

Sunday! Weigh in #1

So...current weight 257 (down 1.8 from last week - after the day I had yesterday, I'll take it!)

I got my flex points back...which is a good thing since we didn't eat much better today.

9 pts - 1.5 slices pizza
5 pts - garlic bread

19 pts - BLT with Avocado
1 pts - diet coke w/grenadine

6 pts - Junior mints (2 servings)

Total: 40 pts
Flex Leftover: 26

Monday, Monday....

Tracie has joined our bitch sessions about food!

I'm starting off with just water today, probably still stuffed from all the dessert I had last night (shush). 8:05 am
It didn't last long.......
2 - yogurt 9:05am
4 - chili with no sour cream! 10:30am
2 - dried fruit 1/4 c. 12:48pm

9 - Chicken wings
3 - weight watcher dessert
1 - two fudge pops, 40 calories each baby
2 - beef jerky
2 - cheese on my salad

25 - running total


only 2.5 waters, will work on that before bed!

Weekends do count, NO EXCUSE.

No excuse, but man is it harder on the weekends, huh?! I will have to sit down and create the rest of saturday & sunday, or maybe I'll just guess because I need to focus on today and work too! I made homemade chili and6 servings is only 5 points each (and that is with sour cream!) but too bad I ate two servings at once yesterday. It was so good!

2 - cereal
1 - milk

1 - store bought pizza sauce
4 - ciabatta from work yesterday
4 - cheese

10- two chili servings
3- WW dessert
3- pudding and peanut butter crust
5-popcorn and chocolate (dude, I was dying for desserts. I tried... got lower fat chocolates for my popcorn? ugh.... and I really ate too much too... blame PMS? eh, no excuse I know. damn.)

33 - total

Only 2.5 waters too. Weekends are hard.

Drunk Food is NOT part of the plan

Ok, so on the way home from the bar, we may have stopped for some anti-hangover drunk food and boy was I not thinking points. But, all is not lost. At least I'm counting, and can be aware for the rest of the day.

Jack in the CRACK

18pts - Sourdough Jack
6 pts - small curly fries
0 pts - diet coke

Applebees (at least it was from the weight watchers menu?)

1 pt - 1/3 serving french onion soup
7 pts - Confetti Chicken
2 pts - 1/2 raspberry chocolate cake

Jerry's Famous Deli (oh yeah, it just keeps getting better)

3 pts - Egg Whites (3)
3 pts - cream cheese
2 pts - 1 slice rye bread
3 pts - hummus
0 pts - veggies (carrots, celery, cucumber)
1 pts - pita


Running Total: 46
Water - TONS. Can we say hangover prevention???

Lovely. Roughly six points for the rest of the day. UM YEAH.

This was painful to blog...but had to be done!!!

Saturday, and I'm counting!

Amazing.

0 - Chayote, boiled
2- egg
0 - onion
0 - garlic
4 - cheese (had to have it, come and I'll make you one of these!)
1- milk

7 - running total

Proposed lunch:
2 - bread
2 - cream cheese
2 - sliced turkey
1- dried fruit, 1/4 C
0 - diet soda

TGIF

Dude, a note from yestereday...the diet lipton tea is not 2 points! I have to look, but I might have only eaten 22 points yesterday...crazy. :)

Today, not on the same track, but still ok:

4 pts - Chocolate peanut butter balance bar
1 pt- 1/2 yoplait yogurt (the rest fell in a trashcan. someone is determined to keep my points down!)
3 pts - iced, tall, non-fat caramel machiatto (shush!!)
6 pts - Lean Pockets Philly Cheesesteak
1 pt - orange

And then it all went to hell :(

Pei Wei (catered dinner :() I had very little of everything, but it's so high in points. SHIT.

Here goes:

2 - Asian Chop Salad
3 - Fried Rice
4 - Mongolian Beef
3 - Ginger Brocolli Chicken
8 - Rum and Diet coke (4 of 'em)

:(



running total: 35 pts
water - 72 oz.

Yum....

6:39pm
I survived the Navigator. But I really want a dessert. I ran three miles, I think I may have one because between 40 calorie fudge pops and having smart one desserts, I am ok! BUT - if I have them all it would be bad.... easily done, but bad. Can I keep this up?

(I split a plain roast beef wrap with Jackson, this is my estimate):
2-tortilla
5-roast beef (I went high for the SINGLE french fry here I had)
0-lettuce, tomato
2-cheese

0-strawberries
1-sugar (I checked the website)

5-peanut butter which pisses me off
2-banana
1-apple

1 - milk
2 - smart start cereal

5 - dessert

26 - running total

But I ran... dang it! Well, jogged...

Keep on keepin on!

Ok, day 3 of actually tracking points...woo hoo!

Key Lime Pie Yoplait Light - 2 pts (how quickly I forgot this!)
Lipton Diet Green Tea - 2 pts
Subway Club (6 inch, w/ veggies on wheat) - 6 pts
WW bbq pretzel chips - 2 pts
Mother's Cookies "Taffy" (vanilla creme sandwich type thing) (1 cookie) - 2 pts
Healthy Choice Tomato Basil and Mozarella Panini - 6 pts
3 pickles - 0 pts (loves them pickles!!!)
WW cookies n cream ice cream bar - 2 pts
WW toffee ice cream bar - 2 pts

Running total: 24 pts


2 points for one damn cookie!!!!!!! I had to have it though. Someone bought cookies from Fuddruckers which I can't find points values for so I'm not eating one. But I was able to find the point value for one of the Mother's cookies and since I have no snacks for the afternoon I figured I could have 2 pts worth of cookie. Still hungry. On the bright side, I have like 19 points left for dinner. I think I'll be ok!

Ok, now I have to drink water. I need more of those little Crystal Light packets, dangit!

Ok, starting.

I WANT TO EAT MORE BUT I WOULD BE SAD FOR DINNER TIME.

Banana - 2pts.
Fruit cup - 1pt
Beef Jerky - 2pts.

1 slice bread - 2pts
4 slice turkey - 1
cheese - 2
chips - 1 (seriously, reduced fat pringles and 15 of them)
Dt Mtn Dew - 0 LOVE THAT
Two burritos - 9

Dried fruit - 2

Running total: 22

Water tally - 4


Oh yeah - and last night I put semi-sweet chocolate chips on my popcorn. In part I'm sure because I knew I wouldn't want to write that today, so I'm writing it just because of that.

Zero Point Veggie Soup

Ingredients:

2 medium garlic clove(s), minced
1 medium onion(s), diced
2 medium carrot(s), diced
1 medium sweet red pepper(s), diced
1 medium stalk celery, diced
2 small zucchini, diced
2 cup green cabbage, shredded
2 cup Swiss chard, chopped
2 cup cauliflower, small florets
2 cup broccoli, small florets
2 tsp thyme, fresh, chopped
6 cup vegetable broth
2 Tbsp parsley, or chives, fresh, chopped
1/2 tsp table salt, or to taste
1/4 tsp black pepper, or to taste
2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice, optional

Instructions
Put garlic, vegetables, thyme and broth into a large soup pot. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat; reduce heat to low and simmer, partly covered, about 10 minutes.

Stir in parsley or chives; season to taste with salt, pepper and lemon juice. Makes 12, 1 cup servings.

Recipe courtesy of Weight Watchers 2007

ZERO

0 point foods:

Baking
Arrowroot powder, 1 tsp
Baking powder, 1 tsp
Baking Soda, 1 tsp
Bran, corn, 1/4 cup
Bran, Wheat, 1/4 cup
Clam Juice, 1/2 cup
Cocoa powder, 3 tbsp
Coconut, 1 tsp
Sunflower seeds, 1 tsp

Beverages
Coffee substitute, 1 tsp
Coffee (black), 1 cup
Club Soda, 1 can
Tea, black, 1 cup
Vegetable juice, 1/2 cup

Condiments
Bacon Bits, 1 tsp
Barbecue Sauce, 1 tbsp
Capers, 1 tbsp
Caraway seeds, 1 tbsp
Chili sauce, 1 tbsp
Chives, 1 tbsp
Creamer (fat free), 1 tbsp
Salad Dressing (non creamy, fat free), 2 tbsp
Salsa (fat free), 2 tbsp
Sunomono, 1/2 cup

Dairy
Egg White, 1

Fruit
Bitter melon (balsam-pear), 1 cup
Carob (algarroba), 1 tsp
Maraschino Cherry, 1
Kiwifruit, 1 medium
Orange, 1 small
Passion fruit, 3
Peach, small or medium

Snacks
Vanilla Wafers, 1
SoupsBorscht, low-cal, 1 cup
Bouillon or broth, 1 cup
Onion mix, 1 cup

Vegetables
Artichoke, 1 med
Arugula (roquette ), 1 cup
Asparagus, 1 cup

Beans,
Green, 1 cup
Beans, Wax, 1 cup
Beans, Black sauce, 1 tsp
Broccoli, 1 cup
Brussels Sprouts, 1 cup
Cabbage, 1 cup
Cardoon, 1 cup
Carrots, 10 baby
Carrots, 1 cup or 2 large
Cauliflower, 1 cup or lg head
Celeriac, 1 cup
Celery, 1 cup or stalk
Chard, 1 cup
Chicory, 1 cup
Cucumber, 1 cup
Lettuce, 1 cup
Mushrooms, 1 cup
Okra, 1 cup
Onion (uncooked), 1 cup
Radishes, 1 cup
Spinach, 1 cup
Squash, 1 cup
Stir-fry (no sauce), 1 cup
Tomatoes, 1 cup
Turnips, 1 cup
Zucchini, 1 cup

"I'll start tomorrow"

How many have I said that with dieting and paying attention to what I eat and exercising... and... and...

but here I'm saying it again. I hope that simply writing it down here will make me pay more attention and I'll have no mental justification for the few pounds I've said I wanted to lose for... how long now?

So easy to not know when you don't keep track.... so here goes!

(tomorrow)