0.2!

Well I gained 0.2 this week! Who knows what would have happened if I had been wearing a different shirt. It's really not surprising considering all that I ate last weekend. Oh well, it could have been worse, so I'm just going to try again this week!

A note about the Western Bagel: if you click on the link it will take you to their site, where you can order them online. So if they don't have them in your area, KB, you can order them online. And it's actually The Alternative Bagel, produced by The Western Bagel company. And yes they are only 1 point and they're extra yummy toasted!

Nothing too exciting to eat today, just cereal, bagel sandwiches X 2 with chips and salsa, some yogurt, some strawberries and bananas, and a 1-point WW peanut butter bar. I did go work out today but I'm going to try not to use those activity points unless I have to. This week may be a little tricky because I have lots of "special occasions." Today instead of eating when I was getting really bored I went and got a fantastic pedicure! Hey it was $40 but at least I didn't eat! And they give free margaritas and cokes there but I didn't have one...I brought my own sonic diet DP instead! Have a good week!

Friday Night of Fun

Well I got invited to a happy hour tonight but did I go? NOPE! Why you ask? Because I cannot trust myself around margaritas and chips! I love chips too much! And I didn't have any of my baked scoops with me or I would have gone. So I went home and put on my pajamas to do something very adult-like- watch the presidential debates. Well I made it for about 45 minutes and now I'm bored to death so I'm going to do my blog and then go watch Gossip Girl on my DVR. I guess I'm not an adult after all! Here was my Friday- very very boring

Fiber One Cereal again-6
Bagel Sandwich for lunch- again the Western Bagel is only 1 point people! And I put turkey and mustard on it for the other 2 points (mustard is 0)
Yogurt- strawberry-2
I had a banana in my lunch but I gave it to my patient- I had saved him a bowl of oatmeal for trial feeding but some idiot threw it away and we didn't have any pudding or applesauce so there goes the banana!
Another bagel sandwich for dinner-3
Baked scoops-5- it was a bad day that called for more chips
m&m 100 cal pack-2

A note about 100 calorie packs- they are really awesome if you just want something sweet but don't ever try to eat them when you're hungry because they will do you no good. You can get 100 cal packs for snickers, m&ms, twix, 3 musketeers at Target. And they're with the candy at my store, not with the cookies like you might think! And of course there are many other 100 calorie packs that are yummy- the pretzel bars, wafer bars, oreos, fudge stripe cookies, etc. All of those are with the cookies at my Super Target and at Wal Mart if you wanted to know. Off to watch Gossip Girl! Wish me luck on my weigh in tomorrow....I doubt I will lose much since the debaucle of last weekend but maybe I will at least stay the same. Goodnight!

Quick!

Okay very quickly because I need to watch THE OFFICE!

Fiber One Caramel Delight cereal and milk-6
Salad from Nino's and a roll (oops) 12
Bagel sandwich- 3 The best bagel is The Western Bagel- only 100 calories and 1 point for the whole thing....they come in Onion, white, wheat, and cinnamon. You can buy them at Wal-Mart or Sprouts....just a tip!
Baked Scoops and salsa- 2 (I cut down the chips a little)
Jello- 0

IT stinks that I didn't eat much and I went over one point! It was that stupid roll! But it was a good one!

Deep thoughts from patients

I have to post some highlights of my conversation with one of my patients at work today. He is a 50-year old man with schizophrenia who has been living in a nursing home for at least 5 years...and now he has a head injury from a fall...a great addition to his problems! I love how when we have a psych patient speech therapy is automatically ordered. I'm sorry but I can't fix crazy. It's the same thing in the schools when a kid has a behavior problem they automatically refer to speech. ANYWAY, here are some of the things he told me:

1. His mom is going to bring him some colorful underwear after she is finished with her meeting with vice president Rockefeller.

2. He is the owner of American Airlines and "all of the planes in the world" which of course makes him a trillionaire.

3. He also owns a pharmaceutical company called "Rockefeller Pharmaceuticals" See any trends?

4. He used to be a bodyguard for President Reagan. And since he was a bodyguard he is now being protected by the secret service. And he told me that I could recognize the secret service agents because they all have a "piece."

5. When he was a teenager he was "knifed in the back" and you know who did it? You're never going to guess so I'll tell you... Lee Harvey Oswald. Keep in mind this man was born in 1958. When I tried to point this out to him he changed the subject to...

6. JFK was not assassinated, he had a heart attack and so he didn't want to be president anymore. So now he is actually posing as Ted Kennedy so he can be a part of the government in the senate.

I can't think of any more at this time but I'm sure I'll be in for more tomorrow. I enjoy talking to him because you never know what he's going to say next. Unfortunately I really don't think I can help him but we'll see!

Here are my points of the day:

Slim Fast 4
Lean Cuisine Chicken Alfredo 6
Yogurt- thick and creamy key lime pie- my favorite! 2
Chicken sandwich as my afternoon snack because I was starving to death 4
Another chicken sandwich for dinner 4
Chips and salsa 3
m&m's 2
1 baby real DP 2
Step class -5 (today it was extra hard because we had to do push ups and around the world lunges)

Total: 22!

Unfortunately I didn't get any fruit/veggies again! BUT I did go to the store tonight so maybe tomorrow will be better! I'm off to watch Project Runway!

A Success!

Well I'm back again to blog about my lovely day of eating. Today I had a success because I had to stay at work until 7 (that's 7-7 if you really want to know) because we were having an open house for any member of the community that would like to tour our hospital. That wasn't the success because we had about 5 people show up and I had to stay 3 extra hours for that. The success was that at the open house there were hot dogs, nachos, popcorn, cookies (all of the foods that you would totally serve to people whose health is compromised) and I didn't eat any of it! Yay me! So here is what I ate instead:

Slim Fast 4 (still haven't gone to the store)
Banana 1
South Beach Meal (very yummy and comes with jello!) 5
Yogurt- yoplait pineapple upside down cake- TOTALLY GROSS but I ate it because I needed to get another milk in somewhere- 2
Southwest Grilled Chicken Salad from McDonald's-9 hey I had to eat something and it was better than a hot dog

Total: 21! I will probably go over by 1 point today because I will have to eat something sweet(2 point pretzel bar) while I watch dancing with the stars....maybe I can hold out but it's doubtful at this moment.

I did better today because I had 2 milks and 3 fruit/vegetables! Yay again! I'm really bad at the fruit/vegetables thing. You're supposed to get 5 and I doubt I ever have more than 3. But 3 is better than zero! Goodbye

Eating issues

I've learned over the past year that I definitely have huge eating issues, one of which being "special occasion eating." And by "special occasion" I mean "anything out of the ordinary." This means that if anything unusual occurs, such as a birthday, wedding, party, long day at work, happy hour, going to a meeting, having to eat at a different time during the day, or fall TV premeire week, totally throws off my plan and gives me free reign to eat whatever I want. This plan is definitely not part of the weight watchers program, as you might suppose. This weekend I had a few things to do so guess what? I ate whatever I wanted for 3 days. I wasn't completely horrible (except for the Mexican food with Mike, Martha, Mom, and William yesterday at Nelda's....yum!) but I wasn't on plan. That really doesn't work for me at this point in my life. I can't just go from really bad to really good without a little lag time in the weight loss. I don't really know how to change it but I guess it's good to at least identify that you have a problem right? Okay so I have decided to see if I can use this blog for an actual purpose...counting my lovely, fun, weight watchers points. So this blog is about to turn from a pretty boring blog to THE MOST BORING BLOG EVER! I used to be very good at writing down points but since I've been slacking I've noticed a proportional increase in pounds. I doubt this will last long, but maybe it will at least keep me accountable for a little while, since anyone and everyone can read what I eat.....here it is for today...keep in mind that I need to go to the grocery store:

Food Points
Slim Fast (chocolate royale) 4
Turkey Wrap and fruit (Jason's deli) 11
Sugar Free Jello 0
Chicken sandwich 4
Baked scoops ( 35 g- yes I have a scale!) 3
Salsa 0
100 calorie pack m'n'ms 2
Activity- step class -4 or -5...we'll be conservative and count -4

Total: 20 points! That is 2 under my max of 22! Yay me! What else can I eat?

There are a few things wrong here, one being that I only had 1 milk serving and 1 fruit/vegetable unless you count the salsa. So there are some things to work on here. Tomorrow my goal will be to get my 2 milks in. There, I've set an attainable goal for myself. There are firsts for everything! Good night!

Bank Crap

So I have to post a brief rant about banking....I am an avid online banker these days...no paper statements, online payment of all bills, etc. Well my bank signed me up for some online bill pay free trial (which turned into a not so free trial a brief 30 days later) which I never used. The other day I tried to log into my online banking page to be DENIED! Try try again...DENIED DENIED! So I call them....somehow some random hacker had tried to pay a $906.45 bill to some ebillme.com site using my UN-USED BILL PAY! And no, I did not open any email that required my sign on info!!!! So that's why I was locked out, and why I of course had to follow a list of steps to prevent any further breach and/or identity theft, including changing all online passwords, getting a brand new checking account (which included going to the bank TWICE because there was an error the first time), changing PINs, signing up for identity theft protection, getting copies of credit reports....lalala and so on. All of this is exceptionally annoying because as many of you know I had to do it 4 years ago when my purse was stolen. This is not nearly as bad because none of my funds (which were very limited) were used. But all the same, it is very very annoying and time consuming. Not to mention that I had to make my second trip to the bank today in the midst of a monsoon! Anyway, I think it's all fixed now...and they assure me that my direct deposit will go through on Friday as scheduled...I'm a little suspicious about that one....I may be contacting you all for a loan if needed....

Zoo pics from two weeks ago

One would think that I could figure out how to change pictures that are out of order, but I can't! So we have some random backwards order pictures from our trip to the zoo a couple of weeks ago. I got to take Will with my friend Mary and her son Gray to the Fort Worth zoo!! It was so fun! I had not been to the zoo in years so it was really a nice time for all! Here are a few highlights....

This is after

This actually didn't have anything to do with the zoo but I like the picture

After again trying to take off our shoes to be like Gray

Giving the alligator (or crocodile?)a hug even though we didn't like him at all

I can't believe we were that close to the gorillas!