Arizona Girls Don't Winter Well: Week 3

Oh, last week was hard. Very hard.

There was a "cream cheese frosting" incident on Sunday which left me with a huge stomach ache and absolutely not wanting anything sweet for a long while. Perhaps that is a good thing.

Needless to say, I gained some weight last week. However, I was really good yesterday and came in under points. WW always says to eat all of your points every day. I disagree. If you are at the end of the day with left over points, and are full and satisfied, why keep eating? Wouldn't that be the better option?

That in combination with doing a longer exercise session helped me lose the pounds I gained. If I can keep this up for the week, I will crack back into the 190s and be even closer to my end goal. I am hoping for that.

The best thing would be for the world to melt, January to be over and the spring to be on it's way. The Arizona girl does not winter well.

Confessions of a Chinese Food Junky

Remember a few posts ago I lamented the fact that my DH didn't want to go the Chinese Buffet, because he thought it would kill us? That day we ended up going to Cleopatra's in the Santa Fe Design Center -- which by the way if you are ever in Santa Fe, you must go it, because it is the BEST Arab food EVER!

Well, Tuesday, I found myself unexpectedly in Santa Fe and very unprepared. Normally when I go down into town, I eat before, bring a snack with me and a few bottles of water. I didn't have anything like that with me at all....like I said, it was a surprise trip! SURPRISE!

I was hungry, so I did wanted to do the trip before, and eat at the Chinese Buffet. It was a mistake right from the start. I walked up and it smelled greasy, gross and not so fresh. I persisted and went in anyway.

I paid, was seated and made my way to the buffet. The usual things were offered -- various Chinese dishes and then French fries, corn dog bites, chicken nuggets?? I took my usual rice noodles, Kung Pao Chicken (which was really lacking in POW!), pepper beef, rice and 2 veg spring rolls.

It was not as good as I remembered it to be. It did nothing for me, and then I felt sick the rest of the day.

Lesson learned, or so I thought.

Yesterday, I was in Abq, and stopped into IHOP for lunch. Now, I was planning this trip because I knew I was going to be out and about. I knew what I was going to order before hand and I had calculated the points and so on before I even ordered. The server brought out my favorite, Swedish Crepes. I'd forgotten that they ker-plob a HUGE dallop of butter in the middle of the plate. The crepes were fine, the lingnon berry jam was fine, but that butter was nasty. I scraped it off as best as I could, but never again. If I ever eat at IHOP, I'll still get my crepes, but sans the butter...sorry Paula Deen, no butter here!

So what does this all mean? It means my food preferences really have changed. I crave homemade, veg and whole grain as opposed to fast, processed, and made to order. I'm really happy about that however, I really am. It shows that all this hard work has worked and that my lifestyle changes are my habits. I like these habits.

That is my confession, a confession from a Chinese food junky, who is now offically going to be clean and sober!

Smootie and fried cheese

So I went to Sonic today for a Fat-free Peach Smoothie. I was really good and didn't get any tater-tots, or fried cheese (ummmm, fried cheese!). I have to say that I am really dissapointed in my smoothie. It's not nearly as good as I remember it to be. It's too sweet, too icey and not enough peach. It's also giving me a stomache ache. I guess next year I will forgo the smoothie at make one at home.

Tales from the Stomach

I have a serious food hangover today, and I didn't really even eat that much, or that badly yesterday (Labor Day). What is up with that? I swear, when I got up this morning, I felt as if I'd been run over by an onion, hit in the stomach with a hot dog bat and deprived of all the water in my body. Not a good feeling.

However, I did manage to prepare a somewhat healthful meal--we had fat free hot dogs (mostly my husband had them), a baked onion, chicken burgers on whole wheat buns, salad and corn on the cob. No soda, no chips, no desserts.

Needless to say, today, I've had the last days of Pompeii raging in my stomach all day. It's 3pm and I still have 16 food points left. That is an a amazing ammount for this time of day. I doubt that I will even use half of that before the day is thru. Perhaps this is just what I needed to get me in the right mind set for the last 15 pounds.

Who knows, at this point though, I would like a baking soda cocktail followed by a maloxx chaser.