Got Lettuce?

Yeah "Title" is Working Again!

Nothing exciting today yet. Just food. Bored yet? I would like to stop posting my menus once this week is over as I am embarrassed by sharing my high use of lettuce and spinach as the cornerstone of my "diet." But "salads" make everything bigger, even nibbles that just start as "bites" "licks" or "tastes." Eating these things as part of a salad forces my brain to register what I am eating is in fact food to be counted in some way.

Anything can become a salad. Got some crackers? Break them up and toss them in with some lettuce. A little leftover corn? Toss it in. One ounce of turkey? Add that too.

On the other hand salad is the food that keeps on giving. Still want to munch on something? Add more lettuce. Need some crunch? Add a couple baby carrots. Need to make it through an episode of "America's Got Talent?" Throw together a two point salad in a HUMONGO tupperware bowl and you are set :D

Tonight is the start of a new BD session yippee!!!!!!

I thought I would share an NSV (non-scale victory). My co-worker last night remarked on my "muscle tone" while I was reaching to put product away on the high shelves. I was wearing a tank top ;)

Ok, so call me motivated to keep up the tv weights.

So here's today's eats:
coffee, splash ff milk, splenda
yogurt, fiber one, small banana, sf ff van pudding mix

broke down and had bread, alt. pita, just because, pita (1) Darn it!

diet coke
gum

apple before my 2nd meeting -- this was "fast food" I picked up at Walmart, down from Taco Bell, on the way to my meeting, taking the same amount of time as "fast food." It thought I could just break into the bars in the trunk or I can bide my time until I passed a supermarket and get to enjoy a nice big juicy apple. Notice how these things taste better when we are actually hungry? And the world didn't stop spinning on its axis because I had to wait 20 minutes until I found a store.

BIG salad with corn, shredded chicken, avocado, salsa, evoo, rwv, mushrooms, carrots, lettuce, five spritzes of Wishbone cesar dressing

20 cal creamsicle (0)
British herby WW biscuits (1)
ww choc smoothie w/coffee, ice, little sf pudding mix

pretzel thins (2)
gum

2 hours BD classes (veil, zills, basic moves)

eggwhite omlette w/onion, mushrooms, Core guac, evoo, Core fried potatoes, ketchup, carrots, brocc, ff cheese
ww cookie dough sundae (3)

Extra points: 7
WPA's left:20

Core of the Matter


Like I mentioned recently I would like to drop a few pounds. Well, "dropping" any weight for me lately usually isn't the case. Let's call it slowly losing tenths of a pound.

So I decided to bite the bullet and give Core a shot this week. I will attempt to document it here. Perhaps that will add to the accountability. I warn you, your eyes may glaze over reading this:

7/8
coffee with splenda and ff milk
Alternative Pita w/sf jam (1 point plus 0)
Ran 5.2 miles (5 AP's to account for 5 points unCore foods like my pre-run breaky)
1 bottle of propel (30 cals -- 1 point)
WW choc smoothie w/FF milk and frozen banana

Golden Spoon regular size frozen yogurt -- it's HUGE! (3)
SF Wintermint Gum (0 --but chewed whole pack all day long and during movie)
Diet Coke -- 2 (not points, just bottles during the day)

Salad with lettuce, ff refried beans, 1/3 of leftover chicken breast, corn, salsa, onion, couple squirts Wishbone Asian dressing, rice wine vinegar
La tortilla factory tortilla (1)

watermelon nibbles while cutting it up

small baked potato with salsa, icbinb spray, ff yogurt, hot sauce
2 oz core hamburger with ketchup, no bun
big salad with lettuce/core veggies, 2 tsp evoo, rice wine vinegar
carrots, raw
chocolate pudding and 1/2 100 cal snack of chips ahoy cookies dipped in (1)

note: I think I ate too much. Wasn't stuffed, but it just seemed like too much
Weekly Points Allowance Used:2
Activity Points's used: 5

7/9
Three small pieces of watermelon
Coffee with splenda and FF milk

FF plain yogurt, ff cottage cheese, Fiber one, banana, sf vanilla pudding mix, cinnamon (whoops -- I don't think I can mix cereal with yogurt anymore on the recent Core plan. I think it is just milk. I will count it as Core today and try to change for the rest of the week. This used to be my favorite Core breaky/snack/dessert.)

Gum

Suhaila Salimpour's Beginning Bellydance Yoga Fusion: Good for stretching, glute and bellyroll undulation isolations, mayas and figure 8's. It takes a while to get (like patting head and rubbing tummy at same time). Includes bonus features like cute little daughter's performance (worth it right there for that!) So cute!

Small piece of watermelon

45 minutes Elliptical and abs

Mex. shredded chicken, salsa, 1tsp evoo, carrots, lettuce, roasted bell pepper slices, mushrooms, rice wine vinegar, canned corn
Western Bagel Alternative pita (1 point)
diet coke

watermelon (a good "on the go" food packed in my WW cooler)
Golden Spoon yogurt, mini 1/2-1/2 cookie dough/pb cup (1)
1 each ww chocolate and orange "biscuits" (1.5 pts -- member brought back from England and shared in my meeting tonight... I need whole boxes of cookies hanging around my house like a hole in my head. Funny how the measure points to the 1/2 point on their packaging.)

baked potato with evoo, ICBINB spray, broc, cauliflower, ff cheese, ketchup, spices
spinach/lettuce mix salad with turkey veggies, rice wine vinegar (Nagano brand, seasoned)

dessert will be a WW smoothie and fruit shared with the Hubster
4 WW herb "biscuits" from England - 2 (doh!)

AP swapped: 4
WPA's left: 31