DIETS make you FAT!

What would I do without my computer?  More specifically, what would I do without this blog community?  I’d be FAT, that’s what!  Ok, I still am fat, just not as fat as I used to be.  I’m annoyed though…I feel like I’m not moving fast enough.  Since the first of Jan, I’m down about 17 pounds…about 2 lbs. per week.  Wait…that’s actually not bad now that I think about it.  I’m really annoyed with myself because I have NOT BEEN WRITING DOWN MY POINTS IN MY FOOD JOURNAL AND I’VE BEEN IN SOME KIND OF CALORIC DENIAL!! What’s up with THAT?  I start out with good intentions, then just don’t do it.  Today…oh don’t even get me started.  Bad bad day, for eating at least.  Hub calls at 8:00, just as I’m feeling hungry ready to eat my oh so prim and proper and innocent bowl of microwave oatmeal, and informs me that McDonalds is offering free McSkillet Burritos, with purchase of a large drink.  So Toddler girl and I head off to the golden arches.  I justified it with the thought that the rest of the day I’d be prudent and eat salad with chicken breast for lunch, and oriental chicken-n-broccoli (no added fats) for dinner…and I did….which was good….unless you count the fiber one bar, the popcorn, the m-n-ms, the more m-n-ms, all the other crap…none of which was written.  Flex points…not on your life.  Used em up at a women’s meeting the other day on this decadent desert thing (plus two helpings at dinner)

Not a bad day, a bad week!  Damnit!  Although, I did sneak a peek at the scale, and I’m still at 199.  No loss, but no gain…so all is not lost. (though I wish it were)

Ok, I’ve ‘fessed up.  Tomorrow my first grader is off school, and we’re taking a little family jaunt up to the “big city” to the north…shopping mall food courts and restaraunts galore.  I’ll tell hub lets go to AppleBees, and eat the points menu.  Good plan!  I will also pack healthy snacks for in the car…lotsa veggies & good stuff.

Side note, made an incredible soup the other day…my hub cracked me up on the phone when he called to tell me he’d just had “an orgasm of soup in a bowl”…yeah, it was that good!  Recipe follows.

Italian Beef , Pepper,and Bean-Lean Soup (Via the crockpot)

Brown 1 lb. hamburger PATTIES, drain, blot with paper towling and squeeze out as much grease off as possible. Chop into bite size chunks and place in crock pot. 

Saute 1/2 large onion and 3 stalks celery in cooking spray, adding enough water to cook until tender.  Add to pot.

Add to crock pot:

one green bell pepper chopped into large bite size chunks

1 can tomato soup

1 can light kidney beans (drain and rinse first)

1 can dark kidney beans (drain and rinse)

1/4 cup light (low fat) Kraft Italian Salad dressing

1/8 to 1/4 cup worchestershire sauce

1 can low sodium diced tomatoes

Cook on low 6 to 8 hours,  or on high 4 hours

Soooo good.  My kids pounded it down too!  As did I.  Too much of it.  Too much of everything this week.  So, I think I’ve bounced around a rocky wagon trail long enough I want to get back on.

One GOOD thing, I am exercising more.  2 days for 2 days today…and yesterday I bought a set of resistance tubes, tried working out with them today and holy cow…I’m sore!  Those suckers work!  Who’da thought…a gym in a little mesh bag.  Just the resistance exercises got my heart rate up…along with intermittent physical play with my little girl I got muscle work and cardio, 35 minutes.  Cool!  And it was fun.

Big challenge is still water.  Gotta slug it down somehow.

Tired.

Ending.

Bed calling my name.

Pillow lonely

Bye.