Adjusting is hard!

Good morning (well, afternoon, technically)!

How is everyone? I just took charge of a package I ordered from Ebay. I ordered a Weight Watchers Points Calculator. It's pretty cool because you punch in the calories, fat and fibre and it gives you how many WW points a food item is.

Eventually you remember how much everything is and don't need to use it so much, but it's been a long time since I've been on WW and it helps out immensely. You'd be surprised ...some foods pack a serious points punch!

I'm sort of bummed as I write this, because I haven't even had lunch yet and I already know that I am going to be way, way, way over in points today. Last night I made hamburgers for supper with potato salad and coleslaw, which I brought for lunch today. Not that that is the real problem!

The real problem, which has always haunted me no matter what plan I follow, is that I have a tendency to fly out of the house without eating breakfast, and then to order a very high fat (read: delicious) chocolate muffin or other confection for breakfast, along with a coffee. At least in the last part I have improved: I used to order cappuccinos or hot chocolates with my muffin.

This is KILLING me. A muffin from second cup is (conservatively) 7 points, and the coffee (2 cream, 1 splenda) is about 2 points. There are 9 of your 26 points for the day.

I could have 21 mini wheats in milk for breakfast for 5 points (don't ask me why the box says a serving of mini wheats is 21...:). I could have a shake for probably 3 or 4 points.

So WHY do I always flake at the last second and flee to the comfort of the muffin?

It's like my morning crutch. But I'll tell you this: on the days I eat breakfast BEFORE leaving the house and don't go to the coffee shop, I gain 100% more willpower.

Food for thought. Literally.

Land, ho! (AKA packing for new house)

This week I'm packing up my house. I have to say, I am pretty damn exhausted. Every day has been...get up early, drag self off to work, do nothing of import at work (slow week), and then go home and pack until like, midnight.

I have the world's tiniest stuff but I have managed to cram a hell of a lot of stuff into it!!

Last night I packed until like midnight. I also had pizza for supper, which is not the greatest, but I didn't eat too much. I had three pieces. That IS one more than I should have had...but hey. Pizza with pineapple, red onion and crumbly bacon tastes DAMN good at 10pm when you haven't eaten since lunch!!

I would say the real downfall is I had a cream soda with it, instead of diet coke or water. Bad Anne!

At least I was packing and moving around, so I got some exercise in.

Speaking of packing...here we go again!

Ch-ch-ch-ch-chaaanges!

Well hello hello! It's been about a month since my last post. And I have to say...the last month has been INSANE!!!!

In the last few weeks, I have: been looking at houses, stopped looking at houses, then got anxious and saw JUST ONE MORE HOUSE...fell in LOVE with that house, bought it with my fiance, started packing up my house, did 20+ hours overtime at work, and now...have decided to change my eating lifestyle.

phew.

That last part is one thin I want to blog about today. I am very pro-low carb. I realize that you have to follow it properly, as you do with any other plan, and I have been having a hard time with that since october. Life is so busy, and I just can't seem to keep up!! And as always, it's my eating willpower which is the first thing to go.
I am getting married next year, so really, now is the time to get a really good handle on my weight problem. I would love to lose 30 pounds,.,...though I'd be tickled to death if I could even lose 15 pounds.

My husband to be also has weight to lose, and he finally seems like he is beginning to get motivated as the wedding approaches. Those photos are going to sit on the mantle for a long time, after all!!! (all we need is a mantle...:)

And so, he has asked me to do a non-low carb plan with him, because honestly, I don't want to be cooking two different dinners every night. Many low carbers DO do this, but I just don't want the hassle. And so, I will be going back to following weight watchers for the foreseeable future.

(But not going to meetings...just doing it on my own.)

I have revised the title of my blog from low-carb recipes to light recipes to reflect this change. However, I will post recipes sometimes that are low-carb, and I will point those out as they arise.

Here's to a healthier life, and a happy spring.

Enjoy. :)