Foods that have helped me lose weight

Here is a list of foods I eat on a fairly regular basis:

• Premier Protein drinks (various flavors) - 2 sp and has 30 grams of protein.
• Starkist Light Tuna Kit (Lunch To Go) - 7 sp and very filling (comes with light mayo, sweet relish & some crackers).
• Smart Ones WW meals (I try to stick with those that have some protein in them so they are more filling)
• Three cheese ziti with meatballs
• Slow roasted turkey breast
• Chicken enchiladas suiza
• Creamy rigatoni with broccoli & chicken
• Tuna noodle casserole
• Creamy basil chicken & broccoli
• Broccoli & cheddar roasted potatoes - this one is very good, but not as filling
• Great Value salty sticks pretzels - 1oz for 3 sp
• Weight Watchers chocolate caramel mini snack bars - 2 sp (I love these, helps me with chocolate cravings and keeps me on track as they are low points)
• Weight Watchers mint cookie crisp mini snack bar - 2 sp
• Old Wisconsin turkey sticks - 1 sp each
• Hard boiled eggs with a sprinkle of seasoning salt - 2 sp
• Carrots with Hidden Valley light ranch - 2 tbsp for 3 sp
• Honeycrisp apples - 0 sp
• Dill pickles - 0 sp
• Velveeta cheese - 1 sp per slice
• Good Thins (corn with sea salt) - 10 for 1 sp - I eat with Laughing cow cheese spread (asiago) - 1 sp per wedge
• Emerald cashew halves (100 calorie packs) - 3 sp
• 1 Honey Maid chocolate graham cracker with frozen, fat free cool whip inside (like an ice cream sandwich) - 2 sp
• Tortilla pizzas - 7 sp
• 1 cup white rice with chicken bouillon powder - 6 sp
• Turkey sandwich on Village Hearth Italian sandwich thins with laughing cow wedge spread and lettuce - 4 sp
• Lays 40% less fat kettle chips - 18 chips for 4 sp
• Jell-O sugar free pudding (chocolate vanilla swirl) - 2 sp
• Shrimp
• Salsa - 0 sp
• Beef Jerky
• Fudgsicles - 2 sp
• Popsicles - 2 sp
• Mini marshmallows - 10 for 1 sp
• Oreo thins/Chips Ahoy thins - 2 sp
• Watermelon - 0 sp

New treats

I discovered some delicious treats that help with those chocolate & ice cream cravings.

Take a chocolate graham cracker and break it in half.  Fill it with frozen, sugar free cool whip and you have yourself a 2 sp ice cream sandwich.  By the way...the frozen, sugar free cool whip by itself tastes really good, like ice cream.  Even my 11 year old son likes it.

 

 

Also just picked these up at Hy-Vee.  I've only tried the pecan crowns and they are ooooh so good.  2 sp for 1.  The English toffee are also 2 sp for 1.

 

 



52 lbs lost

A few months back I hit the 52 lb loss on WW.  However, I have had lots of stress at work for the last 3 months so I have been losing and gaining the same 3 lbs for the last 3 months.  Things are calming down at work and I feel like I am starting to get myself under control again and get back on track.  I guess I am glad that I have basically maintained that whole time.  It could have been much worse.

20 lbs GONE!

All week long I had been weighing myself and staying on track, until we had a potluck at work Friday.  I had a little bit of the things I wanted, but kept it to small portions and then I had one chocolate covered pretzel just to satisfy the cravings of all the sweet things I was seeing and resisting.  That night I didn't have much for dinner, but I wasn't that hungry either.  My strategy paid off, I lost almost 4 lbs (3.4 lbs to be exact).  This is the most I have lost since my first week when I lost 4 lbs.  I was so surprised and shocked especially since I thought it would only be a 1 lb loss.

Plus, I finally hit my 20 lb loss goal that I was slowly trying to get to.  YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After this great feeling I then had two Christmas meals with tons of good food and lots of snacking goodies.  It was a struggle.  So we will see what the scale brings this Saturday.  Eeek!

Turkey Bacon

I tried the Butterball turkey bacon.  I tasted it alone and didn't care for it, when used on my BLT it was fine, but not much flavor.  This could be used in recipes, but definitely not to be eaten alone.  I know a lot of people who like turkey bacon so I think I need to try other brands.

Week 10 and I lost 2 more lbs for a total of 17 lbs.  Seems like it is taking me forever to get to my 20 lb loss goal.  But still losing as normal and was excited it was a full 2 lb loss last Saturday.

WW Week 9 - 5% lost

Saturday was my week 9 weigh in at Weight Watchers.  I have lost a total of 15 lbs (5%) since October 8th so I earned bling.  They call your name out at the meeting, give you a big congratulations, cheer for you and give you this award.  Then they ask what you've been doing to be successful.  These meetings are truly like weight loss therapy.

I've been tracking everything I eat on the Weight Watchers app.  This is super important.  I've completely changed the way I eat.  I'm eating more fruits and vegetables.  I'm watching my portion sizes.  I'm making smarter choices.  I used this as an example in the meeting.  Friday night, we went to have dinner (keep in mind this is the night before weigh in so I have to be super careful what I eat).  Dave ordered a huge plate of nachos smothered in pulled pork and queso and hot wings.  I really wanted what he was having, but I knew I'd blow what I'd been working towards all week.  So I was a good girl and ordered a turkey sandwich with turkey noodle soup.  I ate the sandwich, a bit of the soup as I didn't much care for it and I snagged about 5 of his nachos when he was done and had ate most of the toppings.  As you can see this paid off as I lost 2 lbs this week.

Then Saturday I allowed myself to have some mozzarella sticks and pizza as that is my splurge (but not overdoing it day).  Even though I had this, I stayed within my points for the day.  Again it is just a matter of watching what you eat.

Lit'l Smokies

This journey for me has been about taking food that I love and finding ways to make it healthier.  We love lit'l smokies and I can have them however, the typical beef lit'l smokies that we would normally get only allows me to have about 4 of them.  I thought they have to have a healthier option so I did some looking and found that they make turkey lit'l smokies and I can have about 10 of those (enough to satisfy me).

I was hoping that they tasted as good and we were both pleasantly surprised, they taste almost identical.  You can taste a slight difference, but it wasn't a bad taste.  I loved them and Dave was perfectly fine with them.

With KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce these were 6 WW points for 10 smokies.