Weekly WI: Squeaked By With A Loss

OMG!  What a week.  I am exhausted.

 

I feel like a juggler with so many balls in the air I’m having trouble controlling them all.  Bottom line: I work too much.

 

Let’s rewind to Tuesday and work back from there.  I wasn’t sure what to expect from my Weekly WI as I had social events and Thanksgiving on the calendar last week.  I was hoping for a maintain and when I peeked Monday, it looked like a gain.  But things leveled out and I was down 0.4 pounds for the week as well as down from last might.

 

I would love, love, love to end the year where I was in February, but that is a lot to try and lose in December.  I am going to give it my all.  I absolutely want to be lower than where I started the year. 

 

I have exactly two photos from Thanksgiving.

 

Connect on Weight Watchers has a #WWPotluck and my contribution to Thanksgiving Day was Pound Dropper’s Weight Watchers Crustless PumpkinPie Cupcakes.  I thought they turned out really good and at one point each, you can’t beat that.  I tried to add a spiced egg nog whip cream, but it wasn’t that good.

 

The other photo was the vintage Christmas tree from my grandmother’s house.  It is so fun each year when my brother puts it up at Mom and Dad’s house.  Emma helped decorate.

 

On Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, we attended the Black Friday Payette Brewing event.  I’ve been wanting to attend this event for so many years and finally was able to as I was on dayshift, and it went until 10pm.  It is an exclusive dark beer event with beers from 9%-13% ABV and boy were they dark!  I felt I needed a glass of water after each 5 oz beer pour.

 

The main event is held in the brewing area, which is behind the tasting room.  It is huge back there and two levels.  You buy a taster and tokens, each for $4 and worth one 5 oz pour each.  It felt a little disorganized and really loud with the live band but a really fun time.  The tasting room had seating available, so we snagged a table and there were food trucks on site.  I will go again for sure.  They also served their regular beer and cocktail menu in the tasting room for those not interested in dark beers.

 

 

 

 

Weekly WI: Ready For Turkey Day

Good Morning.  Happy Thanksgiving Eve.

 

I had an awesome weigh-in this week and was thrilled to see the scale go down.  I had been feeling really good about my week and was hoping I’d see the unexpected gain drop off.  Whew.

 

Now, this week is a challenge.  With Thanksgiving and a beer event this week, plus some social activities yesterday, I will be lucky if I can keep the weekly budget out of the negatives.

 

Speaking of budget, I love my new daily budget of 23.  It really gives me a lot of flexibility and I don’t have to rely on those ZeroPoint grains.  I do still love my grains and still eat them, but I have also been looking up new recipes to try to shake things up.  I think that is why last week was so successful.  It feels exhausting at times to plan so much but the outcome is worth it.  I have about 10 weeks until our cruise so I need to keep working to bring that scale down.

 

On Tuesday after my WeightWatchers workshop, I met Kenyon for lunch at Meltz.  We just can’t get enough, and I am so glad to see they are busy and thriving!  I had a half Simpleton and Kenyon had a full Chicken Barby Blue, their newest creation.  I took half of one if his halves and gave him half of mine.  I love their chips.  Mmmmmm…..

 

I ran some errands (the stores weren’t too scary with the upcoming Turkey Day meal prep) and ended up at the realtor groups annual pie pick-up event.  I had planned to not partake in the offered free wine but then I saw my very favorite red wine from Telaya Wine Co.  Thankfully they had the perfect size tasting glasses to give me the taste I craved without spending a huge number of points.  AND I got to seemy favorite people.

 

Thanksgiving is my favorite food holiday.  Bring it on.

Making The Most Of ZeroPoint Foods

 Good Morning!  

Since moving to dayshift at work, I’ve been getting up at the same time on days off which makes for a much longer day off than when I’m on nightshift.  It is crazy it is just now almost 11am.  I have fun lunch plans at 1pm so I’m trying to hang in there but I will need to have something to tide me over for sure.

I have been making the most of the WeightWatcher Program and trying out different recipes and/or finding some ZeroPoint foods to spice up my meals.  At Trader Joes on Tuesday, If found these hashes for $4.99.  

I got the Garden Hash for our baked spaghetti squash, which turned out delicious.

I cooked the ground beef then sautéed the garden hash.  Oh man it smelled so good when cooking.  

I added the beef back to the hash, threw in some onion and garlic powder and crushed tomatoes.  

Using a bowl I added the sauce to the cooked spaghetti squash in hopes it would be less watery.  I think it was.  I baked it in the over for 20 minutes then topped with cheese.  I forgot to take a photo of the finished product out of the oven but I did snap a steamy photo when I put it into the oven.

Delicious!