Bacon...yum.

Weigh-in day! Sound the dramatic music…..I lost a pound! YAY! I really was stunned considering how many meals we ate out. But I think that is what the great thing about WW is. You can live life normally, eat normally, celebrate normally and as long as you maintain your points the rest of the week and workout harder to account for those lost points you may be alright. I stayed within my WP and used my AP. I was shameful in my wine and late night almond munching. I’m so very glad to have fruit back in my house so that I can keep my hand out of the almond jar.
I made it to my step class and tried to run today. I say tried because after the first mile I wasn’t feeling it at all. So instead of making myself miserable or hurt, I called it quits and reasoned to try again this evening. I’m happy with that. I burned it up in class today, it felt great!

I didn’t find the meeting particularly inspirational except that one guy made lifetime today which ROCKS! I did however enjoy talking to a group of women that I sit with. I realized in talking with them today that the program is about what I make it. I have been on every diet known to man other than the cookie diet, because well, that just sounds like a dumb idea to a carboholic like me. Literally my entire life I have been on a diet: the baby food diet (I know it’s a stretch but stick with me here) , the processed food school age diet ( The “lunchable” came out when I was a kid and I couldn’t get enough of this crap), the all rice diet (seriously I ate 1C rice at every meal) I was thin but so unhealthy. The diet coke and cigarettes diet (this one is just nasty), the Adkins, the cabbage soup, the beer and curly fry (this one was actually fun, until your liver gives out), the South Beach, LA Weightloss, calorie counting, slim fast, carb counting….the list could go on forever. Not to say that anyone of these diets doest work. They just left me feeling out of control. But I have control of this. I ate everything I wanted to this past week, I tracked, made good choices, bad choices and swapped choices, but every choice was mine. I didn’t have any rules or restrictions, no induction phases, no testing, I control myself. This may actually work for me. Last year I was so discouraged. I worked out like mad, I calorie counted and finally went to a nutritionist and I did every single thing I was told to do, and I lost maybe 5 pounds over 6 months. Who knows how my time on the program will change, I know every week cannot be a loss. I’m okay with that, I’m human; I know it will get harder to lose weight. But right now I’m losing. At a healthy pace, with exercise and determination, I’m losing and it seems like it’s the healthiest choice I’ve made yet.



I’m back on the cooking bandwagon! YAY! Last night was spaghetti; I needed a quick dinner since we went out to a movie with the little me. Tonight was bacon & mozzarella stuffed chicken breasts with brussel sprouts. I’m glad that we actually decided we like brussel sprouts, lol. I’ll post pics and recipes soon.
Chicken breast-7pp
1oz mozzarella- 2pp
2 slices cooked bacon- 3
Slice chicken breast as to make a pocket, add crumbled bacon and cheese, close the seam and tie up, roll lightly in 1T flour and brown, place in a oven safe dish with 1/4C water and bake for 20 minutes at 350.

I made a decadent dessert. I used my cereal brownie recipe but used dark cocoa powder and added 1T water, this created a flourless cake texture. It was decadent.



Cheers to a great week so far!



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