I only lost 5 pounds this week, but I feel 30 pounds lighter just as of today. Funny how that is! For loosing 20 pounds, Karl bought me 20 long stem roses. I didn’t expect to hit my 30 # goal this week, so it caught us both off guard. I wittingly asked Karl what we were going to do and he suggested going out to eat.
My loving, supportive husband, who has been backing me the whole way, took me out to eat. We went to a Chinese Buffet.
I had three plates of food.
Three servings of rice,
8 sushi,
4 won-tons,
a piece of broccoli,
sweet and sour chicken,
braded chicken,
stuffed crab and
3 crab cakes.
To drink I had 4 refills of Dr. Pepper!
Now, if you know my husband at all, you know that all of this is a lie. If I had gone by myself this may have been the case closer to home than I want to even think…But, my wonderful husband took me to Joe’s Crab Shack (almost as bad). He was in the mood for seafood and I had the baked Tilapia with veggies. We haven’t been in a long time and it was time for some crabby fun!
I thought that it would be fun to go around the house and pick up things that I would not blink twice at eating before starting WW and see what added up to 30 pounds. The not so funny thing is, it didn’t take long to find enough food. I very quickly went way over. But, here is a picture of some of my favorite foods that I have either given up or eat in much smaller quantities that the total weight sum came to 30 pounds.
Code Red was one of my favorite drinks that I “had to have” to work a 36 hour shift at Kinko’s. It didn’t help that our coke machine was stocked full of them all of the time. Milk, I love milk and cheese. Butter popcorn, I am a huge sucker for movie popcorn. Karl hates it and I love it. Dangerous for me. I will eat and eat and eat! Rice crispy snacks. These little devils have taken the place of potato chips or ice cream sandwich and or some other chocolate. The best thing about them is they are individually wrapped and they are just sweet enough to kick the craving. Speaking of chocolate, I have had a heart to heart with most of my chocolates and we have come to an agreement that my face doesn’t like the effects of it and we use it sparingly…dark chocolate is my favorite and it is harder to find. Then there is the VAT of whatever you want! Did I mention Dr. Peppers. I love to go to Sonic and get a 32 oz. Cherry Dr. Pepper. I can do that still, it just costs me 7 of my 28 points that I get in a day. Proportions and eating smart is not easy and definitely not fun all of the time, but the outcomes have been great for Lyneil and I! We are making life and WW work for us!! So, now it's Diet Dr. Pepper or Water.
So, here is my 30 pounds of food that I have shed. Thanks to Lyneil for cooking good, healthy things for us and to Karl and my family for being such a great encouragement. My next goal is 30 more pounds! I have a huge present for my 80 pound goal. Thank you Karl for the inspiration!
4 comments:
My you have been a busy blogger. Is this what happens when we leave. Congratulations on 30 pounds!!! That is awesome!!! Way to go. Keep on going and you will hit your goal weight before you know it. I am so proud of you and your success!!
Ohh! I am so proud of you! I gained close to 50 lbs this past summer from my hormone shots, so I feel your pain. I am working out, doing the weight watcher thing but there is nothing better than hitting that first goal! Great job! Keep it up...hopefully I will hit my goal before summer. I am really, really proud of you! I am going to do an extra mile tomorrow in honor of you...no, not really but it sounded good didn't it!
Congratulations, Andrea! I am so happy for you! (And thanks for updating your blog...it was so much fun to read and catch up on all of your news AND see pictures!) Good luck with the Extreme Body Makeover workouts, and with meeting your goals...I'm dying to find out what your 80lbs. present is!
OH MY GOODNESS! I am SOOO proud of you! Congrats girl!
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