Well - I started thinking.... Five days isn't really all that long at all! It's barely going to be long enough for me to lose another few pounds!!! I want him to come home and be able to see a difference - so now I'm panicking - HE'S ONLY GOING TO BE GONE FOR FIVE DAYS!!!!!!! So, my job now is to plan how to wisely spend my days so when he comes home on Friday night he'll take one look at me & my hot self and not be able to let me go!!! I won't go into any more details here - I'll just end up creeping you out! hee hee :)
So, what is my plan? That is really what all of this weight loss comes down to - is having a plan and sticking with it. I think that's why Weight Watchers works so well for me - it makes me plan out my food day so I don't get stuck like I did on Friday - HOGGING OUT!
So - here is my plan. Tomorrow morning I'm going to make some blueberry / banana pancakes for us. I found the recipe by following a link on the www.skinnytaste.com blog and I think we'll all really like it. They've got some really great, low points, recipes - check it out! I'll post the pancake recipe in my recipe section. Two pancakes are 5 PP - so with 1 T. of maple syrup they'll be 6 PP. A fun way to start the first day of WINTER VACATION!!!! Then we'll break out the microscope and check out cluster-fly wings (and whatever else the boys want to look at) under the 'scope. Sorry if that was gross for anyone - I'm a scientist & just got my hands on my Grandfather's 'scope - so I'm pretty excited to try it out with my kids!!! After that, the boys and I will look through my cookbooks to find some meals that look good to try. I like to involve my kids in our dinner choices as much as possible. I don't have the time (or energy!) to cook meals for them and separate 'healthy' meals for me - so we all eat the same healthy foods! They actually do really well and are good about at least trying the veggies that I cook for them & the stuff that LOOKS weird, but really ends up tasting good!
Anyhoo - back to my plan! For lunch I'll have some leftovers from the fridge - probably sloppy jenn's on a bed of arugula instead of on a bun. YUM! I love arugula - it is such a tasty green!! Then we'll go grocery shopping based on our food choices for the rest of the week. The boys LOVE fish, so I'm sure we'll have some steel head trout or salmon some night this week. We'll have tacos tomorrow night (already planned with my brother & parents), but I'll have mine on a bed of greens with maybe 1 shell broken up in it. So - I've got tomorrow planned. I'll grab for clementines & blueberries instead of cookies (they're almost gone - only 1 each for the boys left!!! I sent the rest with Scott to get them the HELL out of the house!) and I'll get outside with the boys & dogs for some exercise. By the end of the day we'll all be tired AND I'll only have 4 more days until Scott gets home. If I just plan like this for 5 days (and keep VERY busy) the time will go quickly and I'll have some more weight loss to show off to Scott when he's home. Sounds like a GREAT plan to me!
ALERT: Tomorrow morning is only a week before my public weigh in at my home meeting! This is my February resolution - getting to an 'official' 50 lbs lost with clothes on at my home Weight Watchers meeting. I haven't been to a meeting in over 2 years!!!! In fact, I just found my weight chart and the last time I was at a meeting was 2/18/09 and I weighed 181.4!!!! So I'll be at my meeting with almost another 25 lbs off of my body - THAT is SO exciting to think about!!!!! :)
Once that 'month resolution' is completed I've got to jump on my March resolution - which is getting back into the gym! I've been nursing some injuries for several months (hurt myself water skiing in July and I'm STILL having problems with my leg!!!!) & I fell against a house in December (don't ask...) and injured my rotator cuff which makes it hard to lift weights. I'm hoping that within a week I'll be able to get myself motivated enough to get into the gym and start sweating off some of these last 25 lbs! I've got physical therapy tomorrow so I'm going to speak to her about a plan to start lifting weights again. I also want to try going to Zumba and see how that feels on my injured leg.
So - 5 days is a long time, but I'm going to do everything I can to make it go as quickly and weight watcherly as possible! I can have big losses in small amounts of time. Just gotta' PLAN FIRST! :)
Breakfast:
Jenns' Coffee (2 PP) - Who's gonna' make my coffee this week!??!?!?! :(
Jenn's Oatmeal (5 PP) with blueberries & bananas (Oatmeal is now made with 1/2 c. quick oats, 1 T. maple syrup & 1 T. 1% milk)
Lunch:
1 1/2 servings Mac 'n Cheese (11 PP) (check out recipe section - I need to figure out a way to make this more WW friendly!!!)
Dinner:
5 oz. T-bone (9 PP), 1 T. light mayo (1 PP) & 1 steamed artichoke (0 PP)
Snacks:
1 c. fresh pineapple (0 PP)
1/2 oz. rice crackers (1 PP)
1 oatmeal cookie (3 PP)
I did about 30 squats today and 20 lunges on each side. Most of my snacking was on pieces of Mac 'n Cheese - so yummy!!!! By the way - Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper (The boys call it MORE COWBELL!) is perfect for doing lunges to!!!! We played it several times today while playing the air guitar, cow bell (a metal pot with wooden spoons), air drums (with wooden spoons) & LOTS of dancing around!!! (My DAD even joined in! He was the Air Bassist!!!) Lots of a fun & a good workout!
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