LESS THAN A MEASLY POUND

Ack. Less than a pound loss this week. What's up with that? I'll tell you what, I didn't keep track toward the end of last week so obviously I ate too much AND I didn't exercise. I should exercise first thing in the morning but I sit in front of the "Blue Light," hopefully getting un-depressed while I read the Book of Mormon. I sit there for 28 minutes, trying not to be sleepy. By the time I'm finished the day has begun in earnest. A weight loss of less than a pound is enough to depress anyone so maybe the Blue Light won't help.

I decided to weigh three times a week, that will keep me on track. Guess what? I went to Weight Watchers today and my weight was the exact same as on Monday. Ex-act-ly the same. Like I said, depressing.

For dinner I made Jessica Seinfeld's turkey burgers. I tweaked them just a bit. They come out to three points each. Here's the recipe. I doubled the recipe and will freeze most of them.

Turkey Burgers--originally from Jessica Seinfeld--tweaked a bit--3 points using the whole wheat flour, probably 2.5 using the whole wheat bread crumbs, assuming you'd maybe get 10 burgers with the crumbs.

1 pound ground turkey

1/2 pound button mushrooms

1 cup whole wheat bread crumbs--I misread this and used 1 cup whole wheat flour. That took the points from 2 for the bread to 8 for the flour

1/4 cup shredded zucchini--I used one small, which was probably closer to a cup

2 Tbs. Worcestershire sauce

2 Tbs. Ketchup

1 tsp. onion powder

1/2 tsp. garlic powder

1/2 tsp. black pepper

I put the shredder blade on the food processor and shredded both the mushrooms and zucchini. Then I mixed everything together with the dough hook in my mixer--remember I doubled this recipe so I had a lot of goop.

I sprayed three cookie sheets with Pam and used a rounded 1/4 cup mixture for each burger. I baked them, turned them and baked some more. I didn't keep track of the time. They made 23 burgers with the double batch so 11 or 12 for this recipe. Probably 10 using whole wheat bread crumbs.

With two slices of bread this is a 7 point sandwich. 8 if you load on the ketchup. It was very filling and satisfying. Doesn't taste like a burger but it's pretty good. And let's face it, when you are on Weight Watchers you are desperate for something filling and low in points. If you didn't want to use the bread you could even have two burgers for 6 points.

PS My goal was to exercise four times this week. Am I making myself a liar? Is it too late to pick another goal? Will Marion (our instructor) fire me, do you think? I'm going to take a paper bag and when she asks who kept their goal I'm going to put it over my head. She won't be able to see me then and I'll be safe.

LYNNE'S WEEK ONE--so she will keep herself accountable.

Weight lost--8.6--posted Monday, January 11th after my first full week. I know that will not happen again but I'm thrilled today. I am almost at the wieght I was when LA Weightloss quit business over a year ago, so I am happy about that.
Tuesday

Exercise: Zilch
Points: 30--over my target points. Hey, it's my first day!
Food Eaten:

2 carrots

grapefruit juice, fresh squeezed, yum

sandwich made with 2 slices whole wheat bread, 1 Tbs peanut butter, 1 Tbs. peach freezer jam from my neighbor Cindy--I had dashed home, with only ten minutes before I had to be at my Personal History mini class and the bread was frozen so I toasted it, threw it together and took it in a paper towel to class

spaghetti noodles

spaghetti sauce

salad

ranch dressing

one small slice french bread

2 Triscuit crackers with clam dip. The devil made me do it.

biscotti


Wednesday

Exercise: Same as Monday
Points: 17 1/2
Food Eaten:

1 egg

1 toast

2 Tbs. Ketchup--yes, Mother dear, it was Hienz

1 bite pumpkin bread

Vegetarian chili--Nalley's

1/2 cup acorn squash

1/2 cup yams w/brown sugar--so bad and so good

salad

2 Tbs. ranch dressing w/2 Tbs. apple cider vinegar--so puckery

12 grape tomatoes


Thursday

Exercise: Same as Tuesday and Wednesday--there seems to be a pattern developing
Points: 22 1/2 except for the chocolate orange, so maybe it's 24 points, who knows?
Food Eaten:

Toad in a hole--I won't let my kids call "Acini de Pepe salad" "Frog eye salad" but I'll eat a toad in a hole--1 egg, 1 piece toast, vegetable spray. This was so delicious. I wanted two but ate blueberries instead.

1/2 cup blueberries

1 cup veggie chili--I seem to be in a rut

12 grape tomatoes

2 Tbs. ketchup

1 "hamburger" patty--a friend had asked another friend and me to dinner because we are members of the Healthy Living mini class. She got the cookbook Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food by Jessica Seinfeld and her meal was from the cookbook. Her "hamburger patty was ground turkey, mushrooms, zucchini--I think--, whole wheat bread crumbs, Worchestersauce and salt and pepper. It was one of the most delicious burgers I've ever eaten. She got 13 patties from one pound of turkey so you can see the calories were way diminished.

1 whole wheat hamburger bun, which she had made from two slices of whole wheat bread! Clever. That tip was from the cookbook.

2 Tbs. ketchup

1 Tbs. mustard

lettuce

tomato

1 1/2 cup French style green beans. Yes, I ate that much.

1 1/2 banana-zucchini-oatmeal cookie--very delicious.

Skinny Cow frozen dessert that my friend--the other poster on this blog--Pam gave me when I stopped by to chat after dinner. Pam is always willing to let me crash at her house.

2 slices chocolate orange leftover from Christmas--it was in the drawer, calling my name. I answered.


FRIDAY

Exercise: HeLLo (knocking on my wooden head). None. Although I did move my feet up and down the entire time I read my scriptures this morning--one half hour. I don't think it counts.
Points: 27 1/2 maybe--this is an estimate
Food Eaten:

1 orange, juiced

1 grapefruit, juiced, both juices mixed together, which was nasty.

2 homemade taco's with salsa, no cheese

8 baby carrots

1 Tbs. ranch dressing

4 Funyums. I asked Hillary what they were and she said, "Don't try them, they are the best junk food ever." Of course I tried them and they are crunchy and oniony and delicious. I should have known. The more processed a food is the better I like it. Bad Funyums. DO NOT TRY THEM. I'm warning you, which really means I'm warning myself ,since I'm the only one who will read this.

ALL of Hillary's leftover KFC coleslaw. Bad, bad and good, good. I squeezed the dressing out with my spoon but you know lots made it into my mouth.

1 bite berry sherbet

salad

The rest of the can of chili, one cup

biscotti


SATURDAY

Exercise: 20 minutes, walking--not that I wanted to but I needed to get out of the house and so it was forced exercise. I came home after only 20 minutes because I was in danger of freezing to death. So much for forced exercise.
Points: 19
Food Eaten:

1 1/2 grapefruit, juiced

almost a full 12 ounce bag of baby carrots

1 Tbs. peanut butter eaten right out of the jar

1 cup spaghetti noodles--I really dumped half of it in the garbage

1 cup spaghetti sauce--half of it got dumped with the spaghetti

1 small dried up piece of French bread--yes, I was desperate

1 cup cooked broccoli--there was more, I couldn't force it down

2 Tbs. ranch dressing, full of fat, full of flavor--it's worth the 4 or 5 points--at least today it's worth it, maybe not as my "points available" goes down. And I have a half quart of dressing to eat. There's probably 10,000 points in the container.

I'm going to have a "Skinny Cow" frozen dessert in a few minutes. Pam gave them to me, bless her little heart!

Later...Nope, didn't eat the Skinny Cow. I will for sure tomorrow. Ate two bites of pumpkin bread and a Tbs. of mashed potatoes w/butter when I warmed up some food for my daughter. But...I didn't eat a bite of lasagna, and I really wanted to.

2 small slices apple


SUNDAY
Exercise: I'm not saying.
Points: as close as I can estimate 35!
Food Eaten:

Nuts--a mistake. I came home from church hungry and I didn't have time to eat any breakfast. I was going to go to bed and sleep because I only had about 5 1/2 hours of sleep last night. I figure I ate ten points of nuts! And it wasn't very many, either. Oh well.

Pumpkin bread, another desperate act. I'm talking to Pam as I type this and she's saying she had blueberries this afternoon. I wanted to slap my my forehead. Why didn't I do that? (Then I went to bed and when I got up Phil had put the casserole in the oven and it was hot and tasty. Way too tasty.)

Stove Top Stuffing casserole. I had to take a casserole to the food coalition on Friday so I made a smaller version for us. I knew it would be loaded with points but figured it'd be okay because I'd have made good choices all day. Rats. I ate nuts and pumpkin bread. Oh well.

Coleslaw, leftover from BEFORE Christmas, I think. It's been in our Redneck fridge--the garage. I should have had just carrots but.... Old as it was, it was still tasty.

Skinny Cow frozen dessert--only two points and delicious

But, then, I ate the last of the chocolate orange!

I'm now eating carrots and giving some to Kramer.

I also swallowed about ten fiber pills and have had three glasses of water--16 oz. glasses. So far the water is plumping the fiber and staying put so I may not have lost much tomorrow. Oh well. I seem to say "Oh well" a lot.

So that's my week's confession. No exercise. Either not enough food or too much. We'll see what Marion--our Weight Watcher leader--has to say tomorrow.