Feeling groovy...

So I sucked it up and went back to WW on Saturday. Steped on the scale and saw a VERY VERY scary number...a number that I have never seen in my life actually.

I am now 6 pounds heavier than I was when I joined WW in 1999, and approaching 200lbs. If thats not enough to scare a person into recommitting, I don't know what is.

Today was a good day, made it to the gym, ate within my points.

Heres how it all went down

Daily Target - 25 points

Breakfast (4)
1 cup oatmeal with cinnamon, TBSP brown sugar splenda, 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce and TBSP raisins

Lunch (8)
1/2 portion of lemon ricotta chicken pasta
1 cup salad greens with boathouse farms honey dijon dressing
1 cup grapes

Dinner (10)
2 chicken and blackbean mole soft tacos
8 guiltless gourmet chips and salsa
TBSP lite sour cream
TBSP shredded nacho cheese

Snacks (5)
Oatmeal and cinnamon All Bran Bar
1/2 cup raspberries
1/2 cup vanilla yoptimal yogurt

Exercise: 20 minutes stationary bike
H20: 2L

Hopefully I can keep this up until weigh in on Saturday and see some progress :)

Grocery Day....again

Wow, it seems like all we do it groceries. But not really, its just because I haven't posted in a week.

Yesterday was grocery day again. Lots of healthy food, as G and I had a long talk on the weekend about how unhealthy/unfit we've become. We are talking about weddings in the future, and neither of us wants to look back on our engagement/wedding pictures and regret how we look. So back on track we go (seems like this is a revolving door syndrome, but hopefully this time it sticks for more than a few days).

As it was the first day of fall today, I thought it fitting that I reset my weight tracker to reflect the exact amount I have to lose (seems like such a huge number right now, very scary). I always view September as more of a clean slate/new start than even the new year. I don't know why it is, but it feels like I should be recommitting right now. I weighed in this morning and saw number that I've never seen in my life, even before I joined weight watchers back in 1999. Thats enough to scare me.

This week is going to be a real challenge for the two of us as a couple being healthy. We went out for an after dinner walk on Sunday which was nice, but won't happen again until next week. I work 8 am - 8 pm all week and G is working nights, 8 pm - 3 am. So really, we won't be seeing each other except between the hours of 3 and 6...when we are both sleeping!

As a result I have meals set and am planning to be a slow cooking fool this week (I hate cooking when I get home at 8). That means G can eat before he leaves and set some aside for me. Since this is a schedule that will be happening every second week until December, slow cooking leaves leftovers for freezing during busy weeks as well! Yay.

Supper plans for the week:
Tuesday: Braised beef and rosemary pasta sauce over rotini
Large Green salad with goat cheese

Wednesday: Black Beans and smoked sausage
steamed brocolli
crusty rolls


Thursday: BBQ pulled beef sandwiches on focaccia rolls
corn on the cob
Large green salad


Friday - Leftovers!

I leave you with Grocery pictures for the week :)

Non Produce: black beans, Knor boxed soup - Red and Orange, chili powder, canned tomatoes, lite chez whiz (for G) Source Exotic yogurt (for G), Yoptimal Yogurt (for me), egg whites, lite jam, lite chedder cheese, tzatiki, oatmeal, lara bars, green tea, crystal lite, fat free pudding mix, skim milk

Fresh stuff: head of brocolli, jalapano peppers, red peppers, bananas, corn, organic baby spinach, organic baby greens, red delicious apples, green peppers, crusty rolls and foccacia rolls, baby bagette, mini bagels, raspberries

Hope everyones having a healthy start to the week :) And a wonderful first day of fall

Grocery Day!

Alright, I'm going to let you in on a little secret, one that shows my true geekness to the blog world with just 4 words....I love grocery shopping.

Seriously I do. I could grocery shop everyday and be totally content. Which was really bad when I worked at a Goodlife Gym located inside an Atlantic Superstore -- I used to shop every day on my way home from work...so much money out the window from lack of planning on those trips!

My favorite thing to do is to go late at night or early in the morning when noone else is in the store, pop in my IPOD and grab a cart and wander around the store, looking at new foods and thinking up new cooking ideas. It truely is a calming experience for me (crazy I know)

That being said, I hate shopping with a list, I'd rather just pick things up that look good and that I'd like to try. However this kills our grocery budget, because I end up either
a) getting things we already have
b) getting to much andwe end up throwing tons of food out, which is one of G's biggest pet peeve.


Since we've been trying to keep our grocery budget down to 80-100.00 every week, I've started to shop with a list as a result. Which sucks! But is saving us tons of money, so I guess I can't complain TOO much. And I still pick up the occasional fun food that catches my fancy - so not all fun is gone.

We got back from PEI today and our fridge was empty. G was working the night shift, which meant I was left alone to grocery shop to my hearts content!

Here is our loot:



Produce etc: organic baby romaine, bananas, red and green pepper, green onions, celery, red onion, vine tomatos, high bush blueberries, onions, shallots, avacado, shelled edamame, golden delicious and red delicous apples, green seedless grapes, and one huge thing of peanut butter





Everything else: skim milk, reduced sodium chicken broth, goat cheese, lite sour cream, tomato paste, can of diced tomatoes, can of corn, can of black beans, can of frozen oj (for recipes), lemon juice, lite cream (for butter chicken), yoptimal yogurt, egg whites, fresh mint, whole wheat pitas, whole grain cinnamon raisin PC Bagels, Dempsters Honey Wheat Bread (on sale, so I bought some for the freezer), Litehouse Honey Dijon Yogurt dressing (a new find that looked interesting)


mmmm, I can't wait to start cooking. Tonight I'm making a chunky chicken salad with cranberries and orange and pecans. Dinners for this week include imitation butter chicken, bruchetta pasta, and greek chicken skewers.

Yay for healthy eating!