The Last Day

Hi Everyone! Today is the last day of Christmas break for my household. It's been of day of preparation to send the people in my house out the door in the morning. We have had a great vacation/holiday season but, now it's back to the grind. I dawdled around this morning, organizing things here and there. It was getting late, so I decided to eat breakfast before getting in a workout on the Wii Fit. I had some pumpkin leftover in the fridge, so I wanted to make pumpkin cranberry oats. Normally, I am not a fan of oats. The texture is weird to me and it doesn't seem to "stick to my ribs" as it's supposed to. Plus, it gets a little Pointy if you add too many toppings to it and I generally like to stick with a 3 Point breakfast. I was able to keep this bowl of oats at 3 Points, but it wasn't much to look at as far as volume goes! For this tasty bowl of oats, I used:

• 1/3 cup oats (made with water and cooked on stovetop which made a big difference in texture! Definitely better than the micro)
• 1/4 cup canned pumpkin
• 1/8 cup dried cranberries
• couple dashes of pumpkin pie spice
• packet of Splenda

My favorite part of this was the cranberries, mmm...

Lunch was my usual wrap/chip/fruit combo! I had a turkey and ham wrap, grapes and some Sea Salt and Pepper Rice Chips. That's the last of those guys; but I would definitely buy them again...

I hit the grocery store this afternoon, came back, unloaded and picked up little daughter to go on a little shopping excursion for her. Before we left, I made some coffee and had a Weight Watchers Peanut Butter Bliss MiniBar(love these)...

For dinner, lots of carbs were on the menu! I made these delicious Sundried Tomato and Garlic Rolls. I found the recipe on Heather's awesome blog! I halved the recipe which was a good idea because they are great and I would eat way too many! To "go with" my rolls, I made mac and cheese with broccoli. I combined 1 cup of cooked whole wheat elbow macaroni with a sauce made from 1 Laughing Cow Light Cheese Wedge, 1/4 cup fat free milk and 1/2 tbsp. parmesan cheese. I threw in some leftover broccoli to bulk it up. Awesome! This carbolicious dinner came to 7 Points...

I helped myself to another roll, also. They are now in the freezer so that they do not cause me to put them on the evil list!

I had a Point left for dessert and I could've gotten away with not eating any. But then, I noticed these cocoa oatmeal cookies from the other night...

and they might "go bad" if no one eats them, so I had one. No waist waste, here!

Now, I'll remain upstairs (my new strategy) so that no more eating can occur. Kitchen closed!

See ya tomorrow=)

A Quickie

Okay, everyone get the minds out of the gutter:) I mean this will be a quickie post because the one resolution I have made so far is to get in bed by 10:30 p.m. every night! I think this may be a tough one; but I'll give it a whirl.

I wanted breakfast to include on of these guys that I made last night...



They are cocoa oatmeal cookies! I found the recipe on a wonderful blog, Carrots N Cake. A nice healthy tasting cookie. I thought it would taste great crumbled on 1 cup plain yogurt sweetened with a little Splenda...

For lunch, I went with a roast pork sandwich again. I used 3 oz. of roast pork, a slice of 2% cheese and some roasted peppers. Mmm. A side of carrots and Sea Salt and Pepper Rice Chips were plenty to go with it...

Or at least I thought. Once again, I went astray this afternoon with some pretzel sticks, cheese, chocolate, etc. Ugh. I will not fret about it. I will just keep on with the intention to eat the right things and hopefully, I will catch on for more than a couple of hours a day!!!!! Okay, that looked like fretting right there, but really, I'm not;) Cool as a cucumber, that's me...

So, dinner is..... you guessed it- Friday Pizza Night. I made homemade pizza tonight and decided I would have some since I have been in such control with my eating;) Actually, I did o.k.! Probably because I was disgustingly full from the aforementioned crappola this afternoon! I had a slice and some carrots with Kraft Light Three Cheese Ranch Dressing...

After dinner, we headed to my in-laws. We all went for a drive around the neighborhood to see some elaborate Christmas lights and then returned to their house for dessert. Need I say more????

My new mantra seems to be: there's always tomorrow!!! I'm not fretting, see :D