First Loss on the Points Plus Plan

I stepped on the scale this morning and weighed 215.8, so I lost 1.2 lbs. this week! Yay! It’s over my goal for 1 lb. a week, so I’m happy with that. It’s always hard to be too excited when you are not at your lowest weight though- but I will get there! I also weighed less yesterday than I did today…but so it goes! This was my first loss on the new Points Plus plan. I’ve lost a total of 72.2 lbs.

For breakfast this morning, I had 1 cup of oatmeal, a sliced banana and peanut butter along with 1 cup of 1% milk for 8 points.

I want to eat more protein in the morning but it’s really hard for me to find eggs appetizing at 5 AM. I’m thinking I should try to find some protein powder and try mixing that into my oatmeal or something?

On my first break, I needed to try out the HG Dreamy Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge I made to make sure it tasted alright. It doesn’t remind me of fudge, but it’s not terrible either. 1 Point. I cut them into smaller pieces than the recipe calls for.

I was dying to try out the new AE Dairy Greek Yogurt. They have Clementine flavor!

I mixed it with 2 Cuties clementines for 5 points.

I think this is the best Greek Yogurt I have ever had!

For lunch, I had a sandwich made up of light wheat bread, 6 slices Oscar Mayer Rotisserie flavored chicken breast, Bleu Cheese Laughing Cow cheese wedge, alfalfa sprouts, spinach/greens, and tomato for 4 points.

I also had a cup of Lentil Soup and carrot sticks for 4 points.

For dessert, I had a No Pudge! brownie for 3 points.

I found out that I was approved to have Monday off of work next week. I had the rest of the week off, but wasn’t approved for Monday until this afternoon! I WAS SO HAPPY! After tomorrow, I have over a week off of work!!! It’s been forever since I’ve had that long off- I don’t even remember when!?

On my break, I was craving something sweet. So I had 2 hugs and 2 kisses. XoXo For 2 points.

I also brought back a cup of Early Gray tea to sip on for the afternoon for 0 points.

For supper, I had egg beaters and turkey bacon for a total of 3 points.

I also had a big fruit bowl made up of pineapple, banana, blueberries and kiwi for 0 points.

I know this is crazy, but I’m starting to feel guilty about eating so much fruit. I try to fit my veggies in, I did get some today! So many people have told me to be careful of the sugar in fruit, but has anyone really gotten obese on fruit!? I’m still trying to figure this one out- but still feel guilty! Overall, I have to say that the fruit is a much better choice than other things I could be eating, but I do need to try to get more veggies in- even if I just have a salad every day.

I am also proud of myself because I made hubby delicious baked fish wedges for supper. While I would have LOVED to have eaten them too, I just didn’t want to use so many points tonight, so I came up with a low point meal.

Mostly because I wanted to save 5 points for 2 Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies tonight.  

I was very good and waited until dessert. I wanted them all day! And they were worth waiting for. Yum! You can find the recipe in my recipes section on my header!

I would have been exactly at my daily points target, but I realized I forgot to count my chicken at lunch today when I was getting this post together! So that puts me at using 1 weekly point. I was trying to save all of my weekly points for this weekend, but I suppose using a few wouldn’t hurt!

Only 3 more working hours and then it’s VACATION!!