Traditional Last Days

Na na na na, heeey, good -bye! Another school year bites the dust! I now get to wear my daily summer "uniform" of a black and white striped referee shirt. Yep, my summer consists of refereeing the "battle of the siblings" game that will start as soon as they wake up and end at bedtime. Hopefully, it won't go into overtime :D


I delighted in my last morning of quiet and solitude. I headed to the treadmill for my final run without interruption for the next 2 1/2 months. It was very fabulous. I cranked out 35 minutes, then continued my enjoyment with a 12 minute pilates ab workout video from Sparkpeople. That was rough!


Then, I made a luxurious breakfast of.... you know it...cereal! I tried to change it up for you by mixing up the berries. Today's mix was 3/4 c. Quaker Crunchy Corn Bran, 1/2 c. unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze, 5 oz. strawberries and 1/2 c. blueberries. Super awesome 3 POINT bowl...




Then, it was off to pick up big daughter from the bus stop. My annual year-end tradition when I pick the daughters up is to beep the car horn wildly, with the windows down, yelling WHOOOO HOOOOO all the way home. Since, she is in middle school, she found this extremely embarassing, however, she used to think it was hilarious in elementary school ! Next up was picking up little daughter at her school. I did the same for her all the way out of the school parking lot. She was also less than thrilled. What killjoys! I told them that this was a small inkling of the levels of embarassment that they will suffer at the hands of their parents. More to come, girls. More to come ;P


Another annual year-end tradition is taking them out to lunch on the last day. This one they don't object to :) My parents and Gram joined us for lunch at Cosi Restaurant. I checked out their website ahead of time and planned on getting a Fire Roasted Veggie Flatbread Sandwich. It was delish! A mix of zucchini, red and yellow peppers, artichoke hearts, onion and eggplant with a creamy feta spread....

I chose baby carrots for my side and also got a fruit salad which I shared with little daughter. A wonderful 7 POINT lunch...

We did a little shopping after lunch, then headed home to unpack backpacks and go through papers. Big daughter had sleepover plans, so it was just little daughter, the husband and me for dinner. I made them a Cheeseburger Stromboli and took out a "freezer dinner" for myself. I found some leftover pork with mushroom sauce and paired it with 1/2 c. brown rice and a salad with a bit of Kraft Light Three Cheese Ranch for 8 POINTS...

For dessert, I went "untraditional". I wasn't planning this dessert, but it found it's way into my mouth while I was wrapping up the leftovers...

Cheeseburger Stromboli is a very good dessert ;P Um, maybe not the night before weigh-in though.

Hope you all had a great Friday! See ya tomorrow...

Today I Suck

Today I suck at the Weight Watchers program. I suck at eating healthy. I suck at making good choices. I suck at exercising. I suck at intuitive eating. This has caused me to have to suck in my gut to button my pants tonight. Yes, I'm having a pity party. It's my party and I'll cry if I want to ;) Sorry. I know tomorrow will be better. But, today....I suck.

I won't even go into the massive amounts of snacks and cookies and cheese and pretzels I ate this afternoon. Ugh, believe me, I don't want to relive it all. And I decided I am going to stop pychoanalyzing to figure out the "why". It just happens. Sometimes you just feel like eating like there is no tomorrow. Then, there are other days when you feel like you got this whole healthy eating/weight loss thing in the bag. I'm not going to dwell on it. I think I realized today that "this day" will not be my "every day" like it used to be. I don't want to go back to being that 234 pound girl. I can't even imagine it. So, I'll write this day off and get back on track for tomorrow. My goal (ugh - there's that elusive WORD!) is to have more ON days than OFF. I can do that :)


Alright, I am going to now be Polly Positive and show you all the healthy eats I had today!
I am feeling an addicition brewing for Becca's milkshakes! This morning, I made one with 2 oz. fresh mango, 1/2 banana, 1 tbsp. sugar free, fat free vanilla pudding dry mix, 1/2 c. unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze and ice. So delicious for 2 POINTS...




A while later, I had a Banana Nut Vitatop for 1 POINT...


Lunch was a Dr. Praeger's Tex Mex Burger with lettuce and Laughing Cow on a honey wheat bun. Gotta have the soy chips! And some grapes rounded out this tasty 8 POINT lunch...

Here's where things went awry, but I'm not talking about that, remember ;)

And dinner was boneless pork chops with a light mushroom cream sauce, pan-fried potatoes and Gram's green beans for 8 POINTS...

No dessert because...well, you know;) If you can't button your pants, it's not a good idea. But, speaking of dessert..... I won the BSI challenge this week with my Chocolate Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Glaze! Thanks, Lara for that exciting news; it really made my day!

That's all for me, tonight. Hope you all have a great night and don't forget, there's still time to enter my FitNutz giveaway! I'll be back tomorrow night with the winner :)