Archive | October, 2010

Don’t Even Try Saying That!

5 Oct

Any of you who say ‘cleaning isn’t or doesn’t count as exercise’ – well, all I can say to that is ‘you haven’t seen ME clean!’ Oh, and go jump in a cold lake. lol. 😀

I need a new exercise routine since my sword fighting classes ended last week; originally I was gonna hit up the community centre gym tuesdays and thursdays for eleven visits (I have an eleven drop in pass) but decided to do something a little different. I cleaned. Not just simple dusting but deep cleaning, the type of cleaning that would make a maid proud. lol. Today I chose the bathroom. Exciting huh? 😛

The only things I didn’t clean were the walls and the door and the only reason I didn’t clean those was cause I was running out of time before the Biggest Loser started and I didn’t want to miss any – oh and I still hadn’t had dinner at that point and was getting quite hungry. The things that drive me – tv and food! lol. The walls and door not being cleaned is kinda bugging me so I will probably take care of that on the weekend, not like it’ll take long.

Now, not only did I clean but I made an effort to use motions that could count as exercise, for an example, when I was scrubbing the shower walls I did squats while moving from the top to the bottom of the wall – does that make sense cause when I re-read that it sounded weird. lol. I made sure to stretch up then bend over – like in yoga poses, um, what else did I do…I can’t think of other motions to describe but I am sure you get the idea. 🙂

Now my bathroom is shiny and clean and my muscles actually hurt! Because I didn’t sweat I didn’t really consider the effort I put in all that much exercise but about 20 minutes after I was done cleaning when I was making dinner I realized my leg muscles were sore – the way they are after “real” exercise. Sweet huh? Now I am not saying clean instead of exercise, this is not a permanent way to swap out official exercise it was more of a ‘I am not quite ready to go to a gym and my bathroom was dirty’ type of thing but I think for today it was good. Wonder what I will do thursday? Oooooh, the suspense! lol. 😀

Today I ate:

29 grams honey nut cheerios = 2 points

1/2 cup diced peaches = 1 point

1/2 cup 1% milk = 1 point

1 banana = 2 points

1 sandwich

    – 2 pieces bread = 2 points

    – 4 slices turkey = 1 point

    – 1 cheese slice = 1 point

    – 1 tbls light miracle whip = 1 point

    – tomato slices, lettuce, mustard = 0 points

2 triangles light laughing cow cheese = 1 point

1/2 cup cottage cheese = 2 points

raw veggies = 0 points

85 grams whole wheat pasta = 5 points

1/2 cup Primo pasta sauce = 1 point

1/2 pckg Green Giant Essentials Fibre = 2 points

1 Slim Fast Optima whole grain muffin bar chocolate chip = 3 points

Exercise Points earned = 3 points

So I ate 25 points – that’s my 22 daily points and 3 exercise points and whaddya know I earned 3 exercise points, such a coincidence! lol.

Now you may be wondering what in the world I am doing eating pasta every day for how many days in a row now? No, I am not uber excited about the pasta with tomato sauce dish, in fact I hate tomato based sauces, lol, it’s just that they are a lot lower in points then the cream sauces I prefer – shocking I know! But I still have some of the jar left and no room to put it in my freezer so instead of not eating the sauce and then throwing it out cause I can’t tell if it went bad or not I am determined to eat it until it is finished. Hence my repeated pasta meal. ugh.

Oh, and no I don’t make it a habit of eating Slim Fast bars, I had it left in my cupboard from who knows how long ago and it seemed a better option for eating my exercise points then three points of pure chocolate. 😛 It was a tad stale but otherwise ok so I s’pose as a snack (if it was fresh) it wouldn’t be a horrible idea…it has 140 calories, 6 grams fat and 2 grams fibre. It was a decent size so worth the three points if you’re like me and sometimes have to find a way to use up those last 2-3 points in the evening. 🙂

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My Pants Have Died

4 Oct

A couple weeks ago I had to stop wearing one of my work pants – they just became so big I couldn’t wear then anymore, while I am sad to lose a pair of pants cause I don’t have all that many in the first place I did quite the happy dance when I was able to take those pants off without undoing them. lol. 😀

Well, even better…I was able to take off a different pair of pants saturday without undoing them. 😀 wOOt! I am slowly but surely losing my wardrobe…those pants are dead to me! mwahahahahahaha

It’s kinda too bad cause the pants that became officially too big this past saturday were a pair of my favourite pants, lol, figures right? They were brown cords with some detailing on the back pockets and a slightly distressed look around the front and back pockets. I was grocery shopping and they were literally falling off my hips/ass. Awesome!!

I was going to go digging through my closet this past sunday and retry a bunch of my clothes on, see if there is anything else I can get in to or better yet something I haven’t been able to wear in a loooong time that now fits, or is at least closer to fitting but I decided to wait. In total I have lost 11.6 lbs which YAH!! But I decided to wait to retry all my clothes on until I have lost 15 lbs – it will be my reward/treat to me for reaching a kick ass number.

I have been trying to not give myself treats for losing weight – if I associate losing weight with me getting something I want then what happens when I have lost all the weight I want to lose (man, I hope that actually happens!) and I no longer have a reason to treat myself? So instead of going out and buying a new pair of pants when I have lost 15 lbs I will go through my closet and see if something I already own I can now wear. It’s like a treat but not…least in my head…lol

I think if I do buy something at some point it will be a mirror, a full length mirror. The only mirror I have is the one in the bathroom and it only shows me down to my upper thigh. This hasn’t bothered me all that much since I moved in here cause I don’t think I look good Ev-Er! and I don’t like looking at myself but I think at some point I may not mind seeing myself in a mirror quite so much…I don’t know that that time is coming up right away – after all, there is a full length mirror in the bathroom at work that hates me and makes me look oh so fat, ugh, I hate that mirror. That mirror makes me never want to look at myself in a mirror again! But eventually, when my self-esteem and my wallet are in cahoots I will treck off to Winners and get me a snazzy full length mirror for my room – just like a normal person! lol. 😛

Today I ate:

29 grams honey nut cheerios = 2 points

1/2 cup 1% milk = 1 point

1 banana = 2 points

1 nectarine = 1 point

1/2 cup Maple Baked Beans = 2 points

1 piece toast = 1 point

2 triangles light laughing cow cheese = 1 point

1 Activia yogurt = 2 points

salad = 0 points 

1 tbls three cheese ranch dressing = 1 point

raw mixed veggies = 0 points

85 grams whole wheat pasta = 5 points

1/2 cup Primo Thick n Zesty sauce = 1 point

mixed veggies cooked = 0 points

1 corn on the cob = 1 point

1 tsp margarine = 1 point

That puts me at 21 points for the day. I am going to eat my Soft Pumpkin cookie that I saved for my evening treat in just a little bit. It’ll put me over in to flex points because the cookie is 3 points but that is ok because the potluck at work got moved from this wednesday to next wednesday so I don’t have to save all my flex points for wednesday anymore. This doesn’t mean I am gonna go crazy with them or anything but it does mean I get a cookie! teehee

Lately I have realized I am not eating as many veggie servings as I had been in the past and that’s no good! So with dinner I cooked up some mixed frozen veg then put it in the tomato sauce so when I topped the pasta it was with a veggie filled tomato sauce. It was good, the flavour of the veggies totally made up for me not putting the parmesan cheese on tonight – I didn’t put the cheese on cause I wanted the corn on the cob (and margarine to top it with) more – there’s a lot of give an take with weight watchers. Like, ok you can have the cookie but that means you can’t have as large a dinner as you are used to so you may be hungry by the end of the day – stuff like that. Oh, btw, that did not happen today, my dinner was plenty big and tasty and filling and I still get my cookie but that’s cause I learned how to work the system. lol.

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Pumpkin Time Has Arrived

3 Oct

I love baking, I don’t generally eat anything that I bake but I love to do the actual baking. 🙂 People always make jokes about what did I put in the baking that I won’t eat it but it’s just that I think baking tastes better if someone else makes it.

October is imo the best month to make things with pumpkin. I know you can make stuff year round with pumpkin thanks to the wonders of canned pumpkin but I like making pumpkin foods only in October, it makes them more of a treat and less of a blah kind of thing, ya know?  

So today I made Soft Pumpkin Cookes, yum! One of the few things I bake and actually like to eat. 🙂 I made them to take to work cause I am getting grief for not bringing in baking as much anymore. I used to take something in once a week or so but that dropped off cause I just didn’t feel like it after a while. shrug. When it became expected I no longer wanted to do it. lol. I am ornery like that! 😛 And really, I shouldn’t have made them this week cause this wednesday, least I think it’s this wednesday, we are having a work potluck and I am bringing in Pumpkin Pie Tarts. Possibly too much pumpkin baking in one week…ah well, it’s done now. lol. Oh, and lemme tell ya, the apartment smells sooooo yummy right now! Mmm!

My first meal of the day today was a late lunch and I was psyched for it, I had a nice big meal planned that would be tasty and that would use a bunch of points, well joke was on me! It was yummy but it only used 8 points, oy! It was a big freshly made turkey sandwich and a bowl of soup. I am not sure why I thought this would be so many points, I think because it is so much food at one time, and really 8 points is a lot of points for one meal but when it’s your first meal of the day and it’s almost 3pm 8 points is not all that bad. heh

So I ate:

1/2 cup Red Pepper Black Bean soup = 1 point

1 turkey sandwich

    – 2 pieces bread = 2 points

    – 1 tbls light miracle whip = 1 point

    – 4 slices turkey = 1 point

    – mustard, lettuce = 0 points

    – 1 cheese slice = 1 point

1 cup 1% milk = 2 points

1 Three Musketeers Single = 2 points

85 grams whole wheat pasta = 5 points

1/2 cup Primo Thick n Zesty Tomato sauce =1 point

2 tbls kraft parmesan cheese = 1 point

1 piece bread = 1 point

1 tsp margarine = 1 point

1 pumpkin cookie = 3 points

Total points used 22. 🙂

I am so freakin tempted to have another cookie but I am not sure if I am going to indulge. I know I have a whole week of flex points open to me but I don’t know that I want to use any today. That potluck I mentioned earlier is (I am almost positive) wednesday and that will use (possibly!) a bunch of points so I want to save them for that day but man, those cookies smell and look good. lol. I just gotta think about wednesday and all the yummy goodness that will be happenin then and use that to help me resist the cookies tonight.

I think though I will save one for myself to have tomorrow for my evening treat after dinner…yeah, I think that’s a good compromise. teehee 😀

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I Made a Boo-Boo

3 Oct

So, a couple weeks ago I was at M&M’s Meat Shop and bought a BBQ Beef Bowl – never buy this!!! Normally the food I get from there is amazing, it’s cheap, healthy and tastes really good BUT this dish was just not worth it. sigh.

First off, one thing that isn’t the companies fault is I shouldn’t have bought it. It was a mistake, sigh. I didn’t have my slider with me so I couldn’t calculate the points for the bowl and even if I did there were a lot of people in the store so I wouldn’t have been able to take the time to calculate. Hmmm, if you haven’t been in a M&M’s you won’t understand that…k, they are all designed the same way, the majority of the food is kept behind a long counter so you start at one end of the counter and tell a worker what you want then you move up the length of the counter and by the time you get to the cashier all your food is in a pile in front of you. Thing is you need to tell the worker what you want in a fairly quick manner otherwise other customers snag her (the worker) and you get to the till without all your food and have to hold up the line while someone gets the rest of the food you want. So, there were a lot of people and I didn’t want to hold up the line and I didn’t have my slider – I figured I’d take a chance and buy the bowl cause it sounded freakin good and there is a Lean Cuisine beef thing that sounded similar that isn’t bad points wise.

Well, BAD MOVE!! The stupid thing is 11 points! ELEVEN!!! In one dish???? Insane! I almost took it to work for lunch friday but luckily thursday night I checked it for points and almost fell over. Eesh. That is half my daily points! It immediatly became a dish I would only be able to eat on weekends since I sleep in and have less time to use all my points.

I decided to eat it today cause I slept in and figured I might as well eat it  and get it out of the freezer. lol. It was not worth the points! The BBQ flavour was awesome, I love all things BBQ, Mmm, but the beef wasn’t good and it was not a large enough portion to be worth the points. Also, the veggies that were in it were not all that good, it was green peas and kernel corn and the peas tasted funny, the corn was fine – in my opinion you can’t go wrong with corn, but it was over shadowed by all the other stuff in the bowl so I couldn’t taste it. Oh, and the white rice was ho-hum.

I would say if you are gonna choose a frozen dinner of the BBQ beef or ginger beef variety go with the Lean Cuisine one over the M&M one. As much as I prefer BBQ flavour the rest of the bowl just wasn’t worth it – I’d rather go buy BBQ sauce and some beef and make it myself. Or some variation of it anyways lol.

On a happy note today: I Lost 1.6 Pounds this week!! 😀 😀 😀

It was the funniest weigh in, I checked what my weight was last week so I knew what number I wanted to be below, I stepped on the scale saw the number and shrugged in a “figures” kind of way, for some reason I thought the number was 1.6 higher then last week! Yeah, I don’t know why I thought that…shrug. So I was writing the number down and realized it was lower then last weeks number and hopped back on the scale to confirm. lol. This past week I was feeling heavier cause of how a pair of my work pants were fitting. They were snug, not snug they were uncomfie but snug ‘oh my god, I gained weight back and they don’t fit as well anymore’. It’s been making me feel bad since wednesday (the day I wore them) and wondering what I did wrong. I was getting pissed I ate my exercise points and some of my flex points and I was vowing to not eat them this coming week and what happens? My impression of my weight loss is apparently skewed and eating those extra points helped me not plateau this week. Sweeeeeeeeeeeet!

Oh, and I also measured myself today…I will talk about that oh-so-wonderful experience tomorrow cause this post is already getting huge, er, gotten huge. lol.

I ate today:

1 M&M’s Meat Shop BBQ Beef Bowl = 11 points

2 bread ends = 1 point

1 tsp margarine = 1 point

1/2 tbls light peanut butter = 1 point

1 peanut butter and raspberry jam sandwich

    – 2 pieces bread = 2 points

    – 1 tbls light peanut butter = 2 points

    – 1 tbls raspberry jam = 1 point

1/2 banana = 1 point

1 Quaker Crunch’ers = 2 points

A perfect 22 points. 🙂

I was nannying this afternoon/evening which is why I had a sandwich for dinner, it was the easiest thing I could pack up and take. You never know if the parents are gonna let you put stuff in the fridge or eat their food so it’s safer to take something you made that doesn’t need a fridge. lol.

Eating that bowl from M&M’s has left me hungry but it’s the end of the day so I am not gonna eat anything else, it is my self-imposed punishment for making such a stupid mistake in buying something so high in points. lol. But tomorrow will be better…no stupid high pointed foods in my freezer anymore. 🙂

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Evil Evil Temptation

1 Oct

I felt like I needed the blinders today!

All I wanted to do today was eat, and nothing healthy, all I wanted was junk food. I had to go out on an errand during work hours to get a bus pass and every food item I saw in the little store was calling my name. I swear! In a low creepy sing song voice it called to  me – ‘you want me, you know you want me, I won’t hurt you, you know you’ll love me, I’m so tasty, Mmm’  Cookies, chocolate bars, snack bags, harsh.

As if that wasn’t bad enough it was cake day at work. It’s weird, the last two cake days (they happen at the end of every month) I have had no probem resisting the cake, sure they look good but I knew a piece wouldn’t be worth it and shrugged it off. Lemme tell ya, this month was NOT like that! I kept staring at the stupid cakes, they were in the lunch room so couldn’t really avoid them, and to make it worse two of the people I was eating lunch with ate cake right in front of me and kept offering me some. *groan* Here’s some of the things said  to me today “don’t you want a piece? it’s really good, you should get a piece. we could share one, how ’bout the cookie n cream cheesecake? omg, the strawberry shortcake is so light!’ Double harsh!

There were three kinds: the above mentioned cookies n cream cheesecake, strawberry shortcake and double chocolate ganache. It’s like the trifecta of food tempation!

These cakes popping up on a day where all I want to do is eat and I don’t have much food with me cause I ran out of groceries before the end of the week is not good – did I do something bad and now karma is getting even? I dunno, *shakes head sadly* but something was definitly working against me today.

Get this, the only way I managed to not grab a piece of cake was cause I have gotten this rep at work as being the one person who is able to resist all bad food, people there talk about how I have such amazing willpower, blarg. Talk about painting myself in to a frickin corner. 😛 I couldn’t eat even a bite of any of those cakes at work cause people would see me cheating and when it was suggested I bring some of it home I said no. sigh. Somehow my willpower kicked in that way at least, lol, I kept thinking how it’d be easy to bring a piece (or three!) home and indulge this evening and no one would ever know I did it but I just couldn’t do it. I kept thinking how all that sugar and fat would still be in me when I went to weigh in tomorrow and that just wouldn’t do. *rolls eyes*

So I managed to resist the evil tempations today by (1) not wanting to ruin my rep at work  – man, I’m so vain lol and (2) not wanting to cry on the scale tomorrow. Maybe not the best tools to use to not cheat but hey, I use what I have!

Today I ate:

29 grams honey nut cheerios = 2 points

1/2 cup 1% milk = 1 point

1 banana = 2 points

1 apple = 1 point

1 tuna sandwich = 4 points

2 triangles light laughing cow = 1 point

mixed raw veggies = 0 points

1 cup red pepper black bean soup = 2 points

85 grams whole wheat spagetti = 5 points

1/2 cup Primo Thick & Zesty Romano Cheese & Basil Sauce = 1 point

2 tbsp Kraft Parmesan cheese = 1 point

1 thinsations Oreo cakesters = 2 points

I used all of my 22 points. 🙂 I know I could have had some flex points, and I was really tempted cause I was wanting to eat more food, buuuuut I decided not to because of how much I wanted to. Does that make sense? Probably not…it’s like this. If I really want something that has the potential to be bad (food, alcohol, expensive shoes…) I say No! because if I give in even once when I really want something then the next time will be even harder to say no. Hopefully that makes sense cause I can’t think of any other way to explain. lol.

So now I am off to bed where hopefully I will not dream of scales and measuring tapes – after all, I have to face the scary reality of them tomorrow…*shudder*

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