My Third Gold Star!!!

I have now lost over 15 lbs from the time I started Weight Watchers. I am so excited! I am using the 5-Ingredient, 15-Minute Cooking Light Cookbook most of the time for dinner, and eating Baked Tostitos Scoops, chocoPerfection dark chocolate, fruit and popcorn for treats ... PLUS Weight Watchers Ice Cream and Sherbet Bars, and Healthy Choice Fudge Bars (so much like Fudgsicles!, and 80 cal., 1 gm fat!).

YAY! I have a lot more to go, but I already feel a lot better. I have lost the weight I gained on vacation plus a couple of pounds.

On the Difficulty of Eating While Knitting

Lemme tell ya, I can eat anywhere! I eat in the car, at the computer, watching TV, standing up, sitting down, you name it kid. BUT! I find I do not eat while I am knitting.

I was examining the reasons I overeat, and I realized it was mainly excess nervous energy. Not boredom, exactly, but an inability to be still. I want to become able to be receptive and still, but meanwhile, the clock ticks on, so in order to involve my fingers in something enjoyable and to be making something, I started knitting again.

So far I have made three dishcloths (see ElleCoyote blog for the latest), and I am having fun doing it and incidentally, eating less!!!! YAY!!!!

Easy, Fast and Reasonably Light

This cookbook is a collection of recipes from the magazine Cooking Light, and I have been working my way through it. It uses convenience ingredients, most of which I have never eaten in my life! Nevertheless, some are good, some are indifferent, and some are not so hot, so I am marking the good recipes and making comments.

There are at least THREE recipes for pizza! They use both Boboli thin crust and refrigerated pizza dough. Not bad, considering they are "light".

diet~life style ~stressed

I am not being good this week. I have eaten way over my points and exercised little. I've got to get back into the work cycle of working out and drinking more water. I feel like I'm caged in this body and subject to the desires of my mouth and mind. Lately pizza has been calling me. I need help! Get back you big ole greasy, salt packed thing, with delicious sauce and smelling so good. Pizza ghost be gone! I'm fighting the good fight~