Yep! I’m back in the Midwest. In this post, I detail my current projects and what I’ve been cooking lately.

I have, for the last 20 years of my life, been on and off diets. Even when not following any program whatsoever and eating all kinds of crazy things, the idea of dieting has camped out in corner of my mind.  And now… I’m done. For some reason, I was clinging to Weight Watchers but [...]

Breakfast – 7 pts Salad of fresh kiwi, strawberries and pineapple – 2 pts Fresh mozzarella – 5 pts Lunch – 11.5 points I’m kind of intrigued by these little individual size cups of cottage cheese from Rachel’s. They’re a break from a cup of yogurt and they have really interesting sounding flavors. I tried [...]

Breakfast- 5 pts Strawberry yogurt – 3 pts Cut fruit – pineapple, kiwi and strawberries – 2 pts Lunch – 12 pts Turkey and Swiss cheese in a pita – 8 pts Cut fruit – pineapple, kiwi and strawberries – 2 pts crudités – 0 pts String cheese – 2 pts Dinner – 9 pts [...]

Breakfast Skipped it. Hardly any groceries at home and was running short on time. Lunch – 22 pts Was out running errands so I stopped at McD’s on the way back to the office. I’m not proud. Started to feel icky mid-afternoon. Related? Grilled chicken sandwich – 9 pts Large fries – 13 pts Large [...]

I had a WI in this morning and am down 6.2. I’m stoked, as this was my first weigh in since I got back from vacation. This brings me down to a total of 8.4 down. Woohoo!

Evidently I seriously damaged my WW Karma with my Hungry Girl post over the weekend. Or maybe it was the fact that I went COMPLETELY off program the last week and a half?

I went to a Monday morning Weight Watchers meeting for my first weekly weigh-in. I’m pleased to announce that I lost 8.2 lbs! Woohoo! So 8.2 lbs down… and a lot to go. But I guess a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lots of work to do this afternoon and [...]

If you only knew how many ‘tastes like chicken’ jokes my Dad knows. That in itself has become something of a family joke. Tonight is the night before my first weigh-in and I’m trying to keep it healthy. I wanted pizza and coffee ice cream. Instead I had a Quorn ‘Chick’n Cutlet with Gruyere’. In case you’ve never heard the name, Quorn produces a faux meat from myoprotein, which is a type of fungus. And yes. It does taste like chicken. Rather disconcertingly so, in fact. It is the most realistic faux chicken I’ve ever tried. Fresh from the oven, the cutlets are pleasantly crisp. I like them with a bit of lemon juice squeezed over them. For those of you following Weight Watchers, a Gruyere Chick’n Cutlet is 6 points.

Sometimes I need help. I have a hard time with that. Admitting vulnerabilities has never really served me well, nor has admitting failures. I rejoined Weight Watchers last week. Right now, I need to be accountable to a semi-anonymous someone outside of my daily life. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve dropped out of the program. I think that, fundamentally, it is a good program but it just wasn’t addressing why I was overeating in the first place. Now that I’ve dealt with some of those issues, I’m moving forward again. Good thing, too. The number on the scale was just… surreal. And scary. And heartbreaking.