Wednesday, July 26, 2023

 I've been moving forward pretty good this time around.  I managed a 1 mile walk on Sunday and Monday's meals were:




At top is a 3 point yogurt bowl for breakfast and the bottom was lunch which was a chili lime chicken skewer with mixed veggies and white rice with a tsp of teriyaki sauce.  The breakfast was great but the lunch was rather bland, tasteless and dry.   

Tuesday's:



Top photo is the same yogurt bowl though this time I took the photo before stirring it all together and lunch came from a local shop - grilled chicken breast and watermelon.  Both were very good!

I make the yogurt bowl by taking 1 single serve container of non-fat greek yogurt, 1/4 cup of unsweetened vanilla almond milk, 1 tbsp of sugar free pudding mix, 1/2 tbsp of PB2, 1/4 cup of chocolate peanut butter cheerios and 1/2 of a Fiber One 70 calorie brownie (apparently hubby ate all the chocolate ones, so I had to use another flavor).

Oh in case you are wondering, the points are for the current personal points plan (not a past one).

When it comes to lunch, I do much better with something fresh.  Sometimes I can do leftovers from dinner the night before, but it depends on what it is.  I'm beginning to think I may need a small crock pot or something to use here at work or cook something fresh in the toaster oven.  I did prepare for today's lunch though...when I picked up Tuesday's lunch, I grabbed some cantaloupe and chicken corn soup - YUM!!

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I started the above a day ago, so needed to update for today!!!  I had a smoothie today for breakfast, sorry forgot to take a photo!!  Lunch was my soup and cantaloupe:

It was so very good and I was starving by the time I got to have it!!  Our cat Rooker had an ingrown nail and I  needed to leave work, pick him up, back to the vet, back home to drop him off and then back to work....  ANYWAY, he's fine and for dinner this evening hubby and I made BLT's with the tomatoes our neighbor gave us and I had corn on the cob and watermelon with mine and he had macaroni & cheese with his.  It was a very good dinner!

I'm thinking maybe an egg sandwich with some strawberries for breakfast tomorrow.  Unsure about lunch; I just prefer outside food 😛; so it just will come down to making better choices at wherever I end up at!  It's important to prepare for that type of thing.  I could stop at the store on my way to work and get the fully cooked bacon and make a BLT for lunch along side my leftover watermelon and some cucumber....  yep, I think that will be the plan!!


Sunday, July 23, 2023

Back From Vacation and Ready To Do It!!

 I was on vacation last week in South Carolina - I love it there, but the drive not so much!  The drive can be anywhere from 9 to 12 hours!!!  A lot depends on traffic, accidents, construction and the route you choose.  Coming back was a 12 hour one - I was never so happy to see Interstate 81 in my life, lol!!

Anyway, while I was on vacation, someone in one of the various WW groups on FB posted that WW was starting a Reset Challenge and if you PM'd them on Instagram (you could also do it on FB), they'd add you and send you a code for a free WW Scale - the new one that connects to your app automatically via bluetooth and costs regularly $50:

WW Bluetooth Smart Scale


That actually is a really good deal!  EXCEPT.... I already have the scale, but I was interested in the Challenge.  I sent WW a pm via their FB page and told them I already had the scale but was interested in the challenge.  They immediately answered back that they would add me to the challenge AND sent me a code for the scale anyway, telling me to give it to a friend!  How awesome is that??!!  My sister does WW via the mobile app, so I'm passing it off to her.  The scale actually arrived within 2 days!

The challenge?  There's a group (I assume private) on WW Connect and each week they challenge you to do a habit.  This week is "Tracking".  A new topic gets posted each Monday; my start over day is Friday so I'm running a week behind.  Despite my first 2 days were still vacation days...I tracked anyway, even though it was bad.  Starting out today a little bit better.

I don't know if you can still get this deal, but it's always worth a try.  Even if you don't get the scale, they may add you to the group.  Never hurts to ask!

Moving Forward.....