Chicken Overload

Leftover from the weekend, we had onion chicken, chicken breast, and amazing ground chicken triangles (must get the recipe) so we have basically been eating chicken for every meal this week so far.

Tuesday Eats:

Breakfast:
Coffee and Smores Luna Bar (I previously thought Luna bars were full of points but alas only 5!)
Lunch:
Veggie sushi roll
Spicy salmon roll
-Courtesy of Abbie!
Dinner:
Chicken Salad - horrible pic below
Dessert- Help- 1 Black Russian cupcake and 2 hamentashen- the last of them so no more temptation in my apartment!

 

 

 

Trader Joes Butter Lettuce Bag, tomatoes, cukes, sweet peppers, avocado, chicken breast w/EVOO, Red wine vinegar, some spices and a dash of ketchup and dijon mustard

Purim Fail

This past weekend was the Jewish holiday of Purim. I celebrated by eating nothing but Hamentashen for an entire day. That is why I have been hiding from this blog.  Because I am a fail and cannot say no to apricot hamentashen.

Our Purim Costumes: Catwoman, Batman, and Robin!

Hamentashen baking!

Shabbat Menu

My brother and his girlfriend are coming for Shabbat so I made some yummy eats (at least I think so)

The menu:

Friday night:
Challah- the sweet challah recipe in Kosher Delicious cookbook
Babaganoush- found this recipe online
Pumpkin soup
Brisket
Chicken
Squash Pie- an oldie but a goodie
Roasted Broccoli
Friend Tali is bringing dessert and a salad  

Lunch:
Chulent
Chicken Cutlets
Purple Cabbage Salad
Brother Noah is bringing dessert for that as well

Some pics of the eats:

Tried to make a pull apart challah

Best Chicken Ever

Pre a 10 hour crockpot cook

Just for fun- My happy man :)

Weekly Weigh In

This morning I weighed in and got 164.5. Stepped off and on a couple of times just to check and it appears that is the weight. So first week back on WW:


Starting Weight: 167.5lbs
This Weigh-in: 164.5 lbs
Difference: -3 lbs

 I'll take it! Yesterday Eats:

Breakfast:
Coffee and a banana
Lunch:
Egg Salad wrap w/pickles (3 point wrap, with 6 points of egg salad)
Dinner:
Sauteed Kale w/EVOO and chili garlic salt from Trader Joes
peppermint ice cream
Snacks:
Hamentashen
graham cracker

Not the healthiest of days but I was still under my points. Shabbat cooking post to follow!

The rest of the day

After yesterday's #nutfail, last nights dinner looked like this:

Kale Chips and sauteed mushrooms in BBQ sauce

 

 

Butter lettuce, tomatoes, cukes, hardboiled egg, feta w/Balsamic vinegar, dijon mustard, safflower oil dressing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Background = my life. Snow shovel behind the momaroo, play mat, bumbo seat (aka baby central) and also, anyone else watch The Following?! Best new show out there IMO. Was never a huge Kevin Bacon fan but so far I am most definitely impressed and totally intrigued!

Also the saddest thing is coming home from work late and your baby already asleep. My husband tried to keep him up but he was napping on his shoulder from 7pm on. I cuddled with the Bud for like 15 minutes and then we woke him up for bath and his bedtime bottle. ( I give one formula bottle a day prebed- 8 ounzes is a bit much for me to produce) and if he sleeps 12 hours a night from this formula then that's just fine with me.

Soo Nuts are 1,000 points.

Today we had a meeting at lunch time and I decided to buy tons of fruit and not kosher cookies so I wouldn't be tempted to eat them while I sat. HR donated nuts for the meeting, so I thought Oh healthy I'll snack on these pistachios and almonds. Did you know that 1 cup of almonds is 29 points?!?!!?! Because I did not. So that was not the best choice for a snack. Thank G-d I only ate a couple of almonds and about a handful of pistachios. Now I will be eating vegetables for dinner. For 0 points. #WWfail

2 Pounds Down

I weighed myself last night.. and again this morning, just to check on my progress because my weigh in day is Friday  (according to WW2013 rules with Brit). 165.5. Stepped on and off a couple of times just to check and it appears I have already lost 2 lbs! Conveniently enough when I logged onto the WW site this morning there was an exclamation point telling me they wanted my weigh in amount, so I wrote it in and got a lovely message from the weight tracker at WW.

I attribute this weight loss to the initial not stuffing my face/watching what you eat that comes along with starting any diet. One really notices these things on Shabbat, where instead of eating at least 3 slices of Challah with multiple spreads, chicken, potatoes, beef, in addition to soup and dessert,  I ate:

1 half piece of challah

roasted garlic

2 Tbsp eggplant salad

2 bowls soup- some sort of tomato sausage kind

1 piece london broil

1 sliver of strawberry trifle-  I will not go without dessert.

The rest of the weekend went like this:

Shabbat Lunch

1 bite challah

1 cup chulent

1 cup orzo salad

Salad w/pesto vinegarette

Israeli salad

3 chocolate chip cookies

Sat Night:

Israeli Salad

2 hard-boiled egg whites 

1 yolk 

slow churned mint cookie crunch and fat free whipped cream

Sunday

Breakfast- 2 Low fat waffles plus low calorie syrup

Lunch- tuna can in salad w/leftover pesto vinegarette dressing

Dinner- Meat sauce w/spaghetti

Movie snack- 3 oatmeal chocolate chip cookies -Thank you Tali.

I made meat sauce with sauteed onion, mushrooms,carrots, and turkey trying to bulk up the sauce with veggies and a lower fat meat than beef. I did have two bowls of this though. Still less than previous weeks of the stuff your face as much as you want diet.

Overall I think that I was just eating sooo much before this that I lost weight because of the difference in consumption. Heres to a couple more by the end of the week!