Quick no carb (no grains) breakfast

Too many parties, showers, family events and food sabotages lately!!  Back on track this morning with a quick and easy no-carb breakfast before I start work today:

• a couple of handfuls of fresh spinach
• 2 eggs
• a little bit of cheese (this is goat cheese)
• 1 tsp. of olive oil
• 1 tbsp. of milk
• handful of mushrooms

Takes about 5 minutes to cook and voila!

Weight watchers veggie fruit meal

Another healthy and tasty AND filling meal made up of mostly fruits and veggies. All this is only 4 points and that includes a little butter on the corn!

Weekly weight watchers weigh-in

Weekly weigh-in...No change from last week which is actually good considering we had a lot of eating out and parties this past weekend...  6 weeks on WW and 6 lbs lost total.

Weight watchers breakfast doesn't need to be a sabotage

You have to be careful when eating meals out. You could use all your WW points in one meal.  This whole breakfast is about 6 WW points and half of that was the English muffin!

• Egg white omelet with onions, peppers and mushrooms
• Mixed fresh fruit
• English muffin, plain
• 1 tsp strawberry jam
• Coffee with half & half

The local restaurant that served this is the Maitland Breakfast Club. Their Healthy Choice breakfast is perfect on Weight Watchers. I only ate half if it and had the other half for lunch with a salad.  Great way to spread out your points.

Weight watchers avoid fried anything

I love fried shrimp but on Weight Watchers you can eat so few it's hardly worth it.  Just 3 of these are 6 WW points.  I had saved some extra so I could have 5 but definitely not something to eat regularly.

Weight watchers 5 point power breakfast

On Weight Watchers I thought that bacon would be taboo.... not if it's cooked crisp!!  :)  This breakfast consisted of:

• 2 slices of crisp bacon (I used the pre-cooked, freeze-dried kind and cook in the microwave) (3 points)
• Navel orange (o points)
• One egg stir-fried with green peppers and onions (I was out of mushrooms or they'd be in here, too) (2 points)
• Hot tea

Delicious!!  and only 5 WW points!

Weight watchers 5 lb loss !!

First 5 lbs gone! (Actually 6).  By the way, this is probably the first and last time you'll see what my weight was on here!

4 Weight Watcher point breakfast

• 1 oz leftover steak (used scale to weigh)
• 1 egg
• 1 orange
• Hot tea

= 4 WW points

Just sauté cut up steak and egg, peel an orange.  Ready in 10 minutes. 

Weight watchers: Measuring weighing food portion sizes

How do you check your portions?   I've heard that 4 oz. of meat is about the size of a deck of cards and learned for myself that it's true!

I have 2 scales for weighing eBay inventory (in 2 different rooms) and both are accurate. I moved this one to the kitchen. I use a small piece of waxed paper under the food to keep the scale clean. 

This piece of meat is 3.5 oz. and is quite filling with veggies and fruit. It measured about 4" x 3/4" x 2" and was 6 WW points.  You can have your steak and eat it, too!  

Weight Watchers weighing portions

Weight watchers Fathers Day

A special day like Father's Day could be a disaster on Weight Watchers.  Look at this delicious meal-- sons and dad grilled steaks; I made everything else. 

Steak, 4 oz. 

Sautéed mushrooms

Sweet potato

Green beans

Garlic bread

Watermelon

20 points.  If I had left off the garlic bread I would have been fine but it's a special meal. At least I had the sweet potato.  😊  Everyone else had fries.  Salad for dinner to be sure!  

Weight watcher 5 point breakfast

A couple of times a week I love rice chex type cereal for breakfast or even a snack.

Healthy and delicious with a crunch. 

1 1/4 c. Cereal

1/2 cup 1% milk

Sliced bananas

Sliced strawberries

5 WW points

For a snack I might use less cereal. It's a grain so that's where most of the points are.  

I lost one pound this week which included a food- laden bridal shower so I'm doing OK. 4 lbs total so far...

Weight Watchers Lunch 2 points

I was feeling a little under the weather today so I made a large pot of chicken and vegetable soup.  I used chicken instead of the beef from my Get Well Soup Recipe.  What a surprise when I calculated the WW points and found it was only 2!

I should whip up a batch each week to go with my lunches and dinners.

Get Well Soup

Ingredients:

• 1 large boneless, skinless chicken breast
• 1 Sweet potato
• Bag of frozen green beans
• Can of corn
• Can of diced tomatoes
• Sliced/diced fresh onion
• Garlic pepper (out of garlic today, which is unusual)
• Broth from cooked black-eyed peas
• 3 cups of water to fill the pot

8 Points Weight Watcher lunch idea

Weight Watcher lunch 8 points

Weight Watcher lunch 8 points

Lunch:

• Turkey and lettuce sandwich
• Apple slices
• Cottage cheese/yogurt
• Hot tea

Quite a bit of food for a hungry mom for lunch but I spread it out over the course of 2-3 hours.  I eat the sandwich first --3-4 slices of thin deli turkey piled high with lettuce on a sandwich thin bun spread with hummus instead of mayo.  A half hour later I had the apple and 30 min. to an hour later I ate the cottage cheese/yogurt mixture.  I know some of you can't stand the sight of cottage cheese but I've always liked it and adding a little bit of the yogurt makes it like a dessert to me. Sometimes I add fruit or nuts on top.  Try it!

8 WW points to get me through till dinner and I have 10 left for the evening meal and a snack later.  I'm working the system!

Healthy Lunch Salad on Weight Watchers

Salads are just not filling with only lettuce and tomato.  I needs lots of crunchy, chewy, sweet, salty...  Here is a lunch salad = 6 WW points.  You don't have to track the fruit and veggies (apples, blueberries, tomatoes, lettuce)...

Looks great and takes awhile to eat which is good for me!

Weight Watchers Sabotaged on a Trip

Ugh.  Three steps forward, two steps back.  We had our 26th anniversary trip last week--had a wonderful time--but it included too many restaurants and desserts!  Gained 2 lbs., so a net loss of one pound in 3 weeks now.

Basically starting over but keeping on, keeping on!  Using that tracker online and measuring portions for awhile.

Meanwhile, here are a few photos from our anniversary getaway to St. Augustine ...

A sunset 2-hour cruise (hearing the Gilligan's Theme song?) on the Intercoastal Waterway...

Our Bed & Breakfast... we stayed here on the first night of our honeymoon 26 years ago.  :)

St. Francis Inn St. Augustine FL

Delicious homemade breakfasts each morning...

Aboard the Galleon, a replica of a Spanish merchant ship...

Another sabotage... homemade desserts at the B&B each night...

La Nombre de Dios Mission

Old Marineland...

Washington Oaks State Park...

It was a lovely, fun trip. 

Weight Watchers: lunch idea

Lunch idea:

Sandwich thins spread with hummus

2 slices deli turkey

Grapes

Salad 

WW points:  5.  

Weight watchers Light Breakfast or snack

I had a piece of cake and ice cream last night at a friend's home so I'm having a lighter breakfast...

Apple slices and 2 string cheeses 

= 2 WW points

Weight Watchers

Losing Weight with Weight Watchers

I'm putting it out here to keep me accountable.   I'll be posting my meals and some tips on this blog for the

next 3 months. (Trial period)  Time to admit I needed some help to lose 10 lbs--20 would be great!  I joined the online version last Wednesday, May 15, so no meetings.

I weigh in each Wednesday and use the eTools.  So far, I've lost 3 lbs the first week.  

Weight Watchers

Breakfast today:  4 WW points

• Hot tea, black
• Apple, sliced
• English muffin, half
• Poached egg