Lots of soup, yogurt, salads, fruit, etc. No cookies or junk food. I will be happy if I at least maintain my current weight over Christmas.
I have to go grocery shopping for our Christmas eve party and Christmas day dinner. Lat year DH cooked the turkey with nealy a whole pound of butter I am not letting that happen this year!
I am trying to plan a lot of yummy but healthy appetizers for the buffet and just a few sweets.
I may try to make some homemade butter tarts and shortbread, mabe a few cookies. We are more into savory snacks than sweets. I am going to treat myself to those cranberry brie phyllo pastry bundles-they are so yummy!
Last edited by mauvaisroux; 12-06-2002 at 11:00 AM.
Today was weigh-in and I'm down 3.5 pounds for the week!
And I didn't have to starve myself, I ate within my points every day, except for one day when I could only choke down 16.5.
I realize that first week losses are typically large and that it will get more difficult in weeks to come, but it's a nice boost nonetheless.
Tonight we are going out for Mongolian Grill. This is sooooooo tasty and totally on program. Anyone else like this stuff?
Thanks gals! I'm soooo happy about my loss, even though I feel like **** today I'm on cloud 9.
Mongolian Grill is where you pick from a selection of thinly sliced raw meats and/or fish (I always just get chicken), lots of different veggies, and noodles if you like, and put it all in a bowl. Then you
toss in different sauce ingredients like teriyaki, soy sauce, ginger water, garlic, sherry, lime juice, etc. and then hand it to a chef who cooks it for you over a huge round grill, then hands it back to you on a plate. It's an all-you-eat type thing, which I'm normally
not attracted to at all, but since you pick exactly what goes in your bowl you can make it as healthy or as non-healthy as you please.
I typically do a generous amount of chicken, shredded cabbage, sliced carrot, onion, cilantro, and celery and a really spicy sauce.
It's like Chinese food but better -- and without all of the guilt.
Well, after all that talk about Mongolian, we didn't end up going. I'm still feeling a bit nauseous from the medicine, so we went to
Azteca where I had my favorite "I'm not feeling well" food:
Sopa Azteca. It's a spicy soup (good for the sinuses) with
chunks of chicken, tortilla strips, avacado, and cheese melted on top.
We *did* finish all of our Christmas shopping though!
I am not letting that happen this year!
Since I don't think I have said that to you yet 
