Yeah AJsMommy!!! Not that it is good you weighed more, but I am with ya that it feels good to have lost more than you thought. Just wait until you get under 200. That was a beautiful moment for me. I think the best since starting WW. Even better than my 10%. Keep going!!

Had the girl scout swim party this afternoon. I did ok. But not real well. I had two wraps (no idea on points value), 1C of pasta salad. I made it with FF Italian and reduced fat mayo. Still not sure of the points. I would say 6 there. And, then I ate a skinny cow. Then, I came home and had another skinny cow. Man, can I tell TOM is right around the corner. I want to ingest anything that is edible. Now I want something salty. Almonds sound good. Glad I have none. Pizza tonight. Not gonna be pretty. Going to Peter Piper Pizza. Hope they have salad there.

199.999999 is my next goal!!! It's the little goals that I look forward to, instead of the big picture which seems so depressing sometimes.
Today wasn't the best day for me eating wise either, I think I got overly excited about the -25...lol.
I left the Dr. appt w/my friend and went to Taco Bell..normally I can do it with no problem, but somehow a nacho bellgrande minus sour cream and a Mt. Dew appeared on my tray....I'll tell you though, it was fabulous! worth every pt, you need to do that sometimes. I get 26 a day, and my lunch alone was 26...so I knew i'd be dipping into flex today. I walked 45 minutes w/hubby so that gave me 3 back, and then went to Curves tonight, which gave me 2 back..so dinner was a large salad and 2 slices pizza.
I've used 4 flex...so not too bad. Although, no milks or oils and only 3/5 fruits veggies............ Tomorrow starts anew!

Hello - everyone, I don't know how the day flew by without me touching the computer. Just busy.

I am a high school teacher, but I only work every other day on our block schedule. There is a girl at the high school with my same schedule (she only goes to school every other day). She is actually a really cool kid. I had her in class as a freshman (now she is a junior in Calculus at the high school and starting college next year instead of being a senior). The point in a second.... Well she likes to downhill on her mountain bike and she had a big crash; tore a big hole (7"wide by 8" deep) right between her legs, over 200 stitches, almost got her femoral artery, really big owie kind of thing. So I was thinking today, here she is stuck at home, her parents both work all week and are gone on the weekends, and she must be bored out of her mind. Besides, I live in the boonies and have to drive 10 miles on dirt roads past my house to get to her house on a dead end road, so she doesn't exactly get visitors a lot. I called her and told her if she was bored she could come lay around my house instead of hers. Completing the circle of why I was busy and didn't get to the computer until just now.

I feel guilty, like being in a house with two toddlers running amok wasn't exactly relaxing... We stopped twice to let the kids get out and play and she got in and out of the car too. I hope we didn't wear her out.

Now to the bad food part. She brought chocolate chips to make with the kids and they are just sitting in the kitchen crying EAT ME EAT ME EAT ME. I have been overeating everything else just to avoid the CC cookies.

Day so far:
BF:Oatbran cereal with blueberries (3), cliff bar (4), creamer (1)
Snack: nibbles of the cliff bar the kids didn't eat over the rest of the day (4)
Lunch: Soup I made with chicken, yams, lentils, and zuccini (8)
Snack: skinny cow to avoid cc cookies (2)
Sanck: crackers to avoid cc cookies (1)
Snack: peanuts to avoid cc cookies (1)
Snack: big bite of Wil's cc cookie (1)
Snack: skinny cow #2 (2)

so here I sit at 27 points and I haven't even got to dinner yet. I think I would have been better off to have 2 cc cookies with milk. I would have the same amount of point and satisfied the sweet tooth.

Dinner: tofu (4), with veggies (0), olive oil (1), feta (1), cottage cheese (2) and crackers (1)

36 point day

Yowza, I'm so glad she's ok!! I cannot even imagine, 200 stitches!!!!!! You're very kind to have asked her to come lounge w/you, I'm sure even w/your 2 young ones, she loved the different atmosphere.
Sometimes you just need to eat what you want to get past it, within reason of course.
By the way, I see a 2lb loss on your graph, Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!

Two things I thought of today.

One - Dinner was going to put me way over on points, but I went ahead and ate a healthy dinner anyway. My thoughts. If I would have skipped dinner because I snacked too much during the day, it just would have led to more snacking and a downhill spiral. I think if you have a tough day, at whatever point you decide to stop, then just go on like normal from there.

Two - Points games are not productive. If I have two many points one day I sometimes try to compensate by having too few for the next few days. While this does work occasionally, deprivation always seems to lead me to oversnack. So - if my bad day cost me my extra points, so be it - like dottie says,

"One day at a time - no guilt - move one"

Ok, yes! All that being said, I am good to go today. Yesterday was a train wreck for me. This weekend is going to be awful! I am going to try so hard!! My sister who lives 3 hours north of us is coming down to stay at my mom's for the entire weekend. This does not happen often on a holiday weekend because my sister and her family are big rodeoers. It is going to be 3.5 days filled with swimming and eating at my mom's house. It will begin this afternoon. I will just need to make good choices. Sad thing is, my mom and dad are both on weight watchers, and they won't think twice about eating whatever they want. It is only 5:30 right now. I am up way too early. Husband left early to go up north to pick up a boat with his friend. His friend is buying the boat. I had to help him find his second tennis shoe. The kids had hid it. So, I am going to clean the house a bit while kids are still sleeping and I have some time to myself. Have a good day!

breakfast, 9 pts.
squash frittata (squash, 1 egg, 1/2 C. egg sub., 1 tbsp. parmesan, 1 tbsp. flour); 1 tbsp. canola oil
snack, 4 pts.
1 banana, 1/2 C. 2% cottage cheese
lunch, 7 pts.
1/2 C. chicken liver, 1 sauteed onion, 1/2 C. pickled beets, 1 C. Jello sf pudding
dinner, 7 pts.
1.5 C. fresh spinach, 1 apple, 1/2 chicken breast, 2 tbsp. light slaw dressing

Thursday's total: 27, 30 possible

Amy, this calls for bringing food for the group that is healthy. Take a veggie tray, some hummus, and maybe some artichoke guacamole. Everyone will dig in, and you will have some good things to fill up on. We are also doing a big family brunch and pool party on Saturday (though in 65 degree weather) and I will just stick to the fruit tray.

Wendy, how do you make artichoke guacamole??? Funny thing is, it is now a tradition that my dad fix my two nieces and nephew artichokes EVERY time they are in town. They may get a kick out of artichoke guacamole.

I am having an insatiable sweet tooth today. I have eaten the following so far today........

breakfast
oatmeal and black coffee 3pts 3/3

snack
5 cinnamon twists UGH!! 5pts 5/8

lunch (now this was good for me and tasty)
2 la tortilla factory whole wheat tortillas 1pt
1 garlic and herb laughing cow cheese 1pt
2oz turkey 2pts
spinach leaves
red pepper 4pts 4/12

I guess when I look at it, it is not too bad. Just more proof as to why we journal. I still have 12 points today even after my cinnamon twist attack!
Another tradition when my sis comes down is to eat Mexican food on the first night. She has not good Mexican food up where she lives. I will get something within my points. Taco salad hold the shell with salsa perhaps. Or, taquitos with lots of salsa and a bit of rice. Will let you know. --Amy

You just blend up artichoke hearts instead of avocado - and do everything else the same.

The best Mexican food excuse -- claim you have problems with heartburn when you eat chips and salsa. Order off the alacart page on the back of the menu, then it comes with less stuff. Also - order a regular tostado, but then don't eat the fried tortilla it comes on, and skip the guac and sou r cream.

Will give it a go. Thanks!!

Breakfast: oatbran cereal with blueberries (3), latte (2)

Lunch: romain(0), veggies with olive oil (4), ministrone (4), bread (2)
I went out to lunch with the math department -- so pretty good for a restaurant lunch.

15 points so far today.

1 glass of wine (2) at my folks house and 2 rather large mints (2)
cheese and crackers snack (4)

23 points and not yet to dinner

Blew it with dinner, but enjoying myself. Celebrating switching out of Geometry and back to Honors Algebra II next year + 1 section on consumer math. I am equally excited about both. Still have to get approval from our new principal, but the honors kids are a blast to teach because they are so smart and well behaved. And consumer is also really cool. They handpick the lowest kids in the school and expect you to bring them up to passing on their ISATS tests (state standardized testing) as well as teaching them life skills. I am already trying to figure out how I can get them all started with savings accounts at a local credit union and teach them about online banking and loans and saving for retirement and balancing their checkbook and taxes..... it will be really cool. All the stuff you would like to teach to all high school kids, but don't have time to stuff into the regular curriculum of algebra, geometry, trig and pre-calc. I guess we just hope the smart kids figure that stuff out on their own. ... and back to dinner
more cheese and crackers (4)
cukes (0)
really really really really yummy kalbi ribs (10)

37 points

Will someone save me from family dinners too?

late snack after getting home from a GREAT! school production of Grease. (4pts)

41 points just sounds so awful - it is like two days of food in 1. I just have to keep in perspective that it is only about 2000 calories, which, all things considered, isn't terrible.

Oh, and a skinny cow ice cream sandwhich after the late snack, which I forgot to write down.

Today hasn't been good for me. The Kindergarten picnic was today, and I did pretty well, considering, but I should have just stuck to my own food, and not accepted offerings from others. Ugh!

So far today (and it's only 2pm):

1/2 of a 12oz skim milk latte - 1pt

Salad w/ FF Ranch dressing - 1pt
2 chocolate rice cakes - 2pts
1 cup cherries - 1pt

Now here's where I go astray....

9 Sesame crackers - 4pts
1 fried chicken wing - 3pts

I have 8pts. left out of 20pts. I might end up using a couple of flex points today. I rarely use them, so I'm not going to feel guilty!

I am off to my mom's. Wish me luck. Don't know when I will be at the computer again. Hope all have a safe and thin weekend. --Amy

Good luck Amy! I'll be thinking about you!