The Free Cookie Dilemma

Yesterday was one of those days.  Those days were NOTHING in the world seems right and you want to get on the first plane out of town and never look back.  Its too bad that all the planes leaving my town go to Houston...

Anyways.  I lost it.  I did not, as Betheney Frankle of the Real Housewives of New York says, "check myself before I wrecked myself."

I went straight to Popeyes and ate THREE biscuts, 2 drumsticks and the chicken nugget that came in the chicken biscut.  And them my stomach and insides revolted against the trash I put in my body.  Nuff Said. 

But I ran my ten miles and had a small filet of flounder, 1/2 cup of fat free refriend beans and 2 slices of polenta with a tblsp of queso from World Market.

Today I feel better.  I'm going to get an outfit for a baby shower I am helping host this weekend.  I am also going to be working on my paper so I wanted a big lunch to keep my full till well past dinner time.  I ordered a PotBelly chicken sandwhich on skinny wheat (12 pts - cheese, pickles, seasoning - I know 12 is a lot but this lunch is 1/2 of my daily allotment of 25 so I went with it.) with a bowl of their 1 pt vegtable soup - which is only avaiable on Tuesday.  This soup is PHENOMENAL.  For 1 pt!  Thank you to Pot Belly for having detailed nutritional information on their website.

Well...there was a slight hitch in my plan.  My lunch was almost an hour late, 50 starving minutes.  Well....
They gave me a free oatmeal chocolate chip, soft cookie. 

Lord have mercy...too the nutritional info...

OMG this cookie is 10 points...now its a rather large cookie.

I am working alone.  There is no one to give this too.  And I can't throw it away.  That would be wrong, starving children and what not.  I'm thinking I'm going to eat it...and run A LOT tonight.

But weigh-in is tomorrow...

What is a girl to do???  

P.S. Weekend update:  I ate really healthy this past weekend - only one bad meal ;)  We iceskated on Saturday and it was great! :)

Week 8 Weigh-In

Well....its Wednesday...that means WEIGH-IN....

I was worried. 

I took off all my jewels and shoes when I weighed...BUT

I lost 1.2 lbs for a total of 14.6 pounds!  I am SO close to 15! I can't wait!!

We are a little shy of the halfway point and I would LOVE to have lost 30 pounds by mid Novemember!!  And 40 lbs by the end of the year...I could start 2010 off as a whole new person! 

The Labor of the Labor Day Weekend

Oh this weekend was bliss.

HSSH called me on the way home Friday and said "we can't have Migas in the morning, we are going to my nephews football games in Cuero."

Um, HSSH I don't love you any more.  Just kidding.  Probably. 

I was soooo good on Friday night...didn't eat lunch cause I was on the road - had a small grilled chicken breast for dinner with tons of roasted squash and carrots...well and some cheesy bowtie pasta.  Sue me.  Its that darn Velveeta again.  But a totally succssful weekend day!  And I walked up and down the road = activity points for me! 

Saturday - there is a DIVE gas station in Cureo, Texas (its the Get N Go by the courthouse.  They make the world's most insane breakfast tacos.  I mean these MIGHT be better than migas.  I love the carne guisada and the combo.  I get the CG and HSSH and I split a combo for like a million trillion, eleventy billion calories.  But NO, I went to Valero and got a fruit cup and poor HSSH got a subpar breakfast taco.  I love you HSSH for not tempting me with the devil's tacos.  Good man.

Then we watched the little ones play football - a hoot and a half I tell you...Then subway for lunch!  Healthy AGAIN!  Oh so on track...then onto float in the river....and I may or may not have downed an entire bottle of Yellowtail Pino Grigio.  Whoops.  And I most likley pee'd in the river.  A lot.

And I may have been tipsy at dinner.  And I may have eaten A TON of fajita steak.  But I only had 2 tortillas and I only topped them with HOMEADE pico de gallo - lover of my soul.  YUMMY...But if all I gorged on was lean protien, well give me a break.  Oh yeah..the wine....14 pts...my bad.

Sunday morning we went and had migas.  And I had a whole plate to myself.  Bite me.  I took a nap when we got home and got up at 9 - walked and jogged the road and tossed the football with HSSH littlest nephew.  Then I halued a 200 ft hose around for a few hours helping to build fence.  Activity points...I also threw those little newphews all over in the pool for about an hour...lots of activity today...skipped lunch and for dinner I had ham, black-eyed peas and a stick of cornbread...pretty darn healthy dinner. Oh happy day!

Monday was Labor day - and I visited the grandparents and had a few homeade tea cakes to top of 2 pieces of whole wheat toast with Meyhaw Jelly and 1/2 of oatmeal. 

For lunch it was miso soup and a lobster roll at a sushi place with my mom.  Then I lounged in the pool, afterwhich I bulit and repaired fence for several hours...

And that's when HSSH's mom decided it was time to eat at La Hacienda for dinner.  Um...well I couldn't resist the chips and green sauce, or the frozen marg...but um, hey I ate grilled shrimp tacos with corn tortillas....yeah I know its a stretch - what with the beans and rice.  Oh well.  Happy Labor Day!! 

Then I got up at 6 am the next morning and hightailed it back to College Station for work at 9am.  The day's sustiance consisted of a HUGE pomegrante smoothie from Jamba Juice, to soothe my raw and swollen tonsils...YUCK...and a subway sammich!

Hope you all had a happy holiday! 

Shopping Spree

Well, as you know I'm headed home for the weekend...and I thought to myself, self head to Old Navy and see what they have...and they had A LOT! 

Well, $120 later I left the store with:
 - 3 tanktops - black, grey and magenta

 - a pair of hot pink long john style pj pants

 - two applique tees - one navy with pink argyle and one green with cream flowers

(well it's like this but Navy and Pink)

 - a cute 3/4 length work shirt with blue and green dots all over it

 - a long sleeve long john shirt - navy with a PINK 56 on the boob, er...heart and New York City down the
    sleeve.  56 was HSSH's football number - he called me a dork when I proudly proclaimed this...

 - long sleeve Halloween tee - with GLITTER...nuff said.  And yes I AM one of THOSE people who will
   wear holiday clothes...

And I am proud to say that I am no longer an extra - yuck - large anymore - ALL the tops I purchsed were just larges and fit perfectly - and I am hopeful they will be too big soon!!

Here's to Weekend Bliss

This weekend HSSH is forcing me to go home again.  Can't you see him twisting my arm?  He is super proud of my weight loss and so excited for me...I love that man. 

I can't wait to get to Fordtran - the most relazxing, simple, blissful place on earth...

And where there is food a'plenty and flowing rivers of booze...I digress...

I'm looking forward to a weekend of activity - a Satuday morning workout, breakfast - I swear I'll photograph the Migas...I'm thinking about going for it and getting a whole plate...hahaha Bad girl, no. NO.

It's just so good...I can almost taste it.  Whoops - my mouth just watered. 

We'll probably spend some time at the resivor if we can patch the leak in the saleboat (sheeting in on the ji is a great arm workout!) or at the river house - although the canoe man reports that the river is too low for a canoe trip...my heart sinks at this news - I'd love about a 7 hour long canoe trip down the Guadalupe - hello arms, would you like a workout?  Methinks you would.  But most likley it will be serveral hours of swimming in the river and jumping off the rope swing - hang onto your clothes and such.  And of course we'll make the rounds with the family...where my grandparents can tell me how fat I was (not that they are shinning becons of skinniness) and my grandmom, bless her heart, will tell me not to eat anything (but fill the hourse with friend chiken and offer me a rootbeer - on another note - I haven't had a soda, pop, coke, whatever in over 2 months) ...um...I think I got a handle on this diet thing grandmom - hello 13.4 pounds...

Hopefully I'll return with some great stories and be able to report that I don't fall off the wagon...too much.  But really - its not like booze is food . Don't you pee most of it out anyways...in the river...I kid. I kid. 

Have a wonderful weekend - thanks for reading! 

Thanks Work, Thanks....

I'm looking into corporate sponsorships for something at work...

Guess who I just spent an hour researching?

Dairy Queen & Whataburger

Sweet, 8 pound 5 ounce baby Jesus laying in your manager help me.

Now all I can think about are:

 - DQ - Chicken Strip Basket - This is more points than my daily allotment - a kids meal ain't too bad though

 - WAB - Honey.Butter.Chicken.Biscut - Um...again NO with the huge amt. of points

 - WAB Taquito - yeah, again NO sir...

 - DQ Heath Blizzard, or Chocolate Sundae...

Heaven help me...I just had a WW chocolate shake - which I normally like - and it tasted like dirt.  Why would it taste good when you want DQ soft serve?  Ahem, to be bathed in DQ soft serve.  Yep - And I just tempted all my readers too...sorry guys...I must suffer in solidarity...

I had 54 chocolate frosted mini wheats for 3 points.  Delicious - even without milk.  And only 3 points.  Why 54 you ask?  That is the serving size - why they couldn't measure that I have no idea...why I am a big enough freak to count them...well that is obvious. 

If I remember I'll take a picture of my sushi tonight and post it! :) 

Success!!

After two weeks of losing .4 & then .6 pounds I am OVER THE MOON to report that I lost 3.2 pounds this past week!  For a total of 13.4 pounds in the past 6 weeks!!  My dog weighs 11 pounds - its crazy to think I've lost a little over a poodle...

Can I get an AMEN??

We are starting a new campaign - Lose For Good.  Visit

http://www.weightwatchers.com/templates/marketing/Landing_1col_nonav.aspx?PageId=1151581

to find out more.  We'll be donating food to our local food bank.  I thought I'd take a momement to urge you to donate to your local food bank.  Its shameful that we have people, children espically, who go hungry right here in our OWN communities.  I have a real problem when people only look globally for charities when there are people who need your help in YOUR OWN community. 

Are you trying to lose weight?  Well gather up all of your trigger foods and donate them to the foodbank - at the very least. Have a little extra money on hand?  Call the food bank up and ask them what they need at the moment.  One can of food costs less that $1.00 and can feed someone.  Less than $10 can often feed a family - help out if you can.  I know times are tough for everyone but no one should have to go hungry - if we all give a little it will add up to a lot. 

I'm super excited that I lost weight this week - even though I ate some non-healthy things last weekend I made up for it in exercise - I can't wait to use this momentum to keep me going and hopefully next week I'll break the 15 pound mark and get another 5lb star for my bookmark!

Sushi and Wine with my wineo tonight...untile next time :)