Late update on weigh in day

It has been a crazy weekend!
I weighed in on Saturday and yeah, 1.4 lbs isn't as good as last week but hey a loss is a loss right?
Right.
Today I am going to make the Iced and Spiced Pumpkin Cupcakes. I am looking forward to them, they sound so yummy. I did my exercises yesterday and I will do some today not all of them though because my muscles are sore from yesterday but I do need to get up and moving so that I don't get even more stiff.
I am a stress eater and have been under quite a bit of it lately, luckily I haven't kept anything too bad for me in the house so even when I endulge my need for a snack I have light string cheese or apples with peanut butter, or watermelon, or reduced fat nilla wafers.
Although yesterday Greg and I went to the China Buffet for dinner and that just blew the day. It's okay though because today is another day. I had a banana so far and I need to get some protein so I might have a scramble made with EggBeaters (tm).

Light dawns on marblehead....

Okay so the reason there were way too many ground cereal breadcrumbs is I measured them after I crumbed them....duh. So I wasted like half of my $4.00 box of cereal in one night. I hate when I don't think.
Anyway today has been going great so far. A sliced apple with 1 1/2 tablespoon of peanut butter has been my breakfast favorite lately. Not sure if I am missing something that they provide from my diet but it seems to be all that I want when I get up? Who knows.
I do have to hit the grocery today, I am out of fruit and that just will not do.
It is that time of the month where I want to eat everything in the house. (seriously I have eyeballed the cat a couple of times) So, being "good" isn't always easy which is why this new cookbook is so amazing for me. I can have two of this or one of these or a slice of this...it makes it much easier to stay on track when there are pumpkin spice cupcakes involved, and yes they get frosting. I can hardly wait to make them... I think I will do those tonight.
My biggest slip up as of late has been in exercise. And I could tell you that my back has been bothering me and I am so exhausted from work that I can't get motivated. (which is all true but I do also always feel better when I am on a regular excercise routine so I need to just do it.)
So, I guess I will go do my exercises now. Ciao!

Okay so....

The "Bloomin' Blossom" recipe out of my new cookbook needs some tweaking. I thought that was WAY too much cereal for coating and it needs more flavoring.
Also the Keylime pie type recipe the crust is way too thick and should be cut with some reduced fat Nilla Wafers (tm) to make it more pallatable.
The buffalo chicken recipe was awesome though and will definitely be made again.
Right now I have to go make some ground turkey and rice wheat wraps for dinner.
I really like being able to share healthy eating with Greg. He has been really supportive so far. He loved the "Ooey gooey Cinnamon Rolls" that I made for breakfast (made with Splenda (tm) I Can't Believe It's Not Butter (tm) spray, and Pillsbury (tm) reduced fat crescent rolls. you even get to make a halfway decent frosting for them.)

Weigh in day

I lost 2.5 lbs this week, just have to keep on it. So since I first started this whole thing I have lost 35lbs. That sounds like so much and yet I still have 125lbs left to lose. I have a whole person left to lose. (Or three supermodels) I can do this and I will. When I stepped on the scale in my doctor's office and saw that I had gained back all of the weight I had lost when I was in my early 20s I was devestated, I just have to hold onto that feeling and focus on how much better I felt before I put all the weight back on. I had so much more energy. I hope by this time next year to be riding a bicycle on a regular basis. I think I can get there.

Where the heck have you been????!!!!

Here I am blogging away and you readers just don't show up for months?! What the heck?
Anyway, I have been very busy with work etc... and haven't been blogging I know. I am back on track now however and am so excited about my new cookbook I bought.
"Hungry Girl's 200 recipes under 200 calories" perfect for making snacks or getting to my 1500 calories a day on days where I just don't feel like having anything too heavy.
I just made 3 of the recipes today and they were all tasty. My favorite as far as ease and taste was the "Strawberry Shortcake Bites." I don't know why they are called bites when they are bigger than the "Strawberry Shortycakes" which I also made.
(Can you tell strawberries were on sale at Meijer?)
I am going to try to make the froze "Shortcake Bites" as a banana creme pie type thing. This could be really good, although it will have more calories as the sugar free strawberry preserves I used for the original recipe are only 10 calories per tablespoon and a whole banana is about 110. But it should still be very yummy, I might also try making them smaller so that it isn't as bad. We shall see.
I look forward to making the "guilt free" bloomin' onion recipe that she has in there.
Sunday night for dinner I am going to make that, and the "buffalo" chicken tenders (made with original Fiber One (tm) cereal crushed up as the breadcrumbs.... I love this cookbook.
Anyone who shows me how to make guilt free cupcakes, and better for you appetizers is wonderful in my book.
Well that's it for now. I have gained back a lot of the weight I had lost but we will see how Saturday goes. I still have two days to stay on the straight and narrow. I can do this, I just need to start doing my exercises regularly now.