New site

Hi All!

If you're still checking this site out, I wanted to let you know I have a new blog..
http://imaddictedtochocolate.blogspot.com/

Hope to see you there :)
Anne

Goodbye and thank you.

To blog or not to blog. That is the question that I have been asking myself for a few weeks now, and the decision I have made is not to blog. There are many reasons that have led me to make this decision, but I guess I have run out of things to say .

When I started this blog, I woke up thinking about what I was going to write everyday, I wanted to sound interesting and I guess for a while I did, but really, how much can you say about the need to drink more water? hahah! Losing weight is still a priority for me, but it does not occupy my thoughts nearly as much as it used to, now I just feel guilty for not posting often enough. I also now think of myself as more than the girl who needs to lose weight and that's a nice feeling.

I know I couldn't have gotten this far without all of you, so thank you from the bottom of my heart. I wish you all the best of luck in your own journeys and I will keep on reading your blogs and hope that one day we all reach our goals. I won't delete this blog and hope to one day come back and post that I got to goal. I guess this is not goodbye, but until we meet again.

Anne
xoxoxo

2pt muffins

Hi everyone. I made the muffins from my last post. Here's how they turned out. YUMMY!!!

Thought you might like this :) mmmm muffins

-I found some great looking ww friendly 2 pt muffin recipes and thought I would pass them along. Let me know how they turn out if you make them, I will make a batch this weekend and let you know how they turn out for me. I think I will make the berry one :) Yum!

-Today I tried the Fibre 1 bars and while they taste almost identical to the American version, I do find them a tad dry compared to the others, they are still really really good though, I would have been pissed if they tasted completely different.

-I've started to go for a walk on my lunch hour. Even if it's just half an hour a day, at least I know that I've gotten off my ass for a little while. I don't always feel like working out at night, so I guess a walk is better than nothing. I'm also taking my camera with me, so it makes the walk more fun.

That's it for now.
Have a great night!
Anne

New Find!

Guess what's finally in Canada?! Fiber 1 bars!!! Whoo Hoo!! Now all we need here is Target and Bath and Body Works (though the rumor is that B&BW is coming at the end of 2008!).

The differences between the U.S version and Canadian bars are that ours have 20% of your daily fiber requirements as opposed to 35% and ours have 5g of fibre vs 9g (correct me if I am wrong) Both are 2 pts. I found mine at Wal-Mart.

Still alive!

Hi Everyone!

I didn't realize that I had been away so long, sorry about that. First things first, I lost 3.5 pounds this week! Very thrilled about that. The holiday weight is gone, baby. Gone. I have been trying to eat more of these.and trying to stay away from these.

and since I am a girl that likes to have her dessert after dinner, I have been having some of this instead (warm milk with sugar free vanilla syrup) Not to mention, the warm milk makes me sleep quite well.

I'm still doing well with the treadmill and trying to get on at least 4 times a week. Some weeks, it's harder, like last week. Last weekend we spent both days painting and man was I sore after, it felt like I had done a million squats! Didn't feel like running after that but it's not like I spend the weekend on my ass, so it's all good.

Victory of the day. We had a pizza lunch at work and instead of having the pepperoni and cheese that I love, I had the veggie and I saved myself 5 points :)

That's it for now, see you soon, hope you're all doing a great job, I'm off to catch up on all of you. Anne

WI Day :)

See ya later 1.5 pounds, feels good to be back OP! Problem is that I watched the Friends episode where Phoebe and Monica try to find Phoebe's grandmother's secret cookie recipe and they bake up a ton without success. Turns out that it's the Nestle Toll House recipe..lol Anyhoo, I want cookies!!! I think I'll go brush my teeth and that should curb the craving. What do you think?

Other than that, not a whole lot to report, it was kinda slow at work (see picture below) and my husband is back home:)

Have a good night everyone.

Anne

Proof.

I got to work and my co-worker called in sick. OK, fine. Then my other co-worker called in sick, OK that's fine too, I mean they really are sick and I would rather they stay at home cause I don't want what they have. I don't mind helping out and doing the job of three people, really I don't, I like being busy at work, however, today was proof that I am a stress eater, though to look at me, you would never know I'm stressed and honestly, I don't feel it, but actions speak louder than words, it's like I have zero control over it. It blows.

Some lovely person left a box of Christmas chocolates on the filing cabinet at work, the one I go to a million times a day. I lost count of how many times my hand reached into that box today. Ugh. They only good thing is that tomorrow starts a new week, and finally, we have no plans this weekend, the first I think since the first weekend in December. Can't wait. There is no reason for me not to stay on plan. I was so close to having a perfect week too.

My husband comes back tomorrow and it will be nice to get back into a routine, I've been really bored these last few days even though I really enjoy my time alone. Also, being alone throws my whole routine off. This week, I had to go back home once to see if I turned the iron off and another time to see if I turned my flat iron off. Yesterday I was almost at work, 40 minutes away from home when I started to doubt whether or not I had closed the garage door! How crazy is that?! I had to call my husband in Toronto and get him to call his brother and ask him to go by the house and have a look. I had closed it.

This time next week, I will be posting that I had a perfect week OP :)
Anne

stuff

• I gave away all the cookies I made on Friday night. If they would have stayed in the house, I would have eaten them all. I ate two of them.


• I didn't have a second helping of Chinese food last night (homemade, so not as much salt) and I had a small piece of black forest cake, I scraped off the whipped cream.


• I haven't been on my treadmill since Thursday, but I'm getting back on tonight.


• I've had my water every single day since being OP, finally, I don't feel bloated.

That's it for now, sorry for the lame post. Super busy at work and promise to be more interesting soon :)

WooHoo!!

I made cookies last night for dessert tonight. Go ahead, ask me how much cookie dough or finished product I had? ZERO! It's a miracle.

Friday!!

I think I've mentioned it before but I love the people I work with. Like really love them. I actually like coming in to work, cause these people are my friends. What's also great is that there are 6 of us doing WW, watching our weight or doing Herbal Magic (not sure really what it is, but that's not what this post is about), the awesome thing is that when I go to work, besides the month of December, there are no temptations, nobody is bringing in chips and sweets like we used to all take our turn doing and we are all encouraging each other. Now this isn't a New Year's resolution thing, we've been all pretty much on plan for about half a year now. We eat lunch together most days but every Friday is Subway day! You have no idea how much I am looking forward to having my Subway today. I've been on plan all week and this is my reward, and what a good reward it is :) Ah, the little things that make me happy..lol

I drove my husband to the airport this morning, in freezing rain I might add, so I'm now I'm alone for 5 nights. Yeah for easy dinners !! It's amazing how I have changed when I think of it, I have no plans to binge while he's gone. I say this because he used to travel to Africa for long periods of time (3 weeks - 1 month) and I used to take these times to eat everything that I would never dare eat in front of him. No more of that bad behavior and it feels good.

Have a great OP weekend!
Anne

EEEK!

Ouch, not surprisingly, I've managed to put on exactly 5 pounds in the last month. I know how it got there, I LOVE food way too much. Whatever, Christmas comes one time a year and while I would like to be able to drill into my head that Christmas is only one day, in my world, it lasts one month. haha! No worries, it's gonna come off, heck, I've already been on the treadmill 3 out of 4 days and I think that's more than I've done in the last 6 months, I'm back on track and back in "the zone". While I know that I ate too much goodies, a small part of me thinks that I really do gain by simply LOOKING at food ;)

This week should be pretty easy to stay on points, my husband is leaving on Friday for almost a week and I find it so much easier to plan when I'm alone, I don't mind havine toast and cereal for dinner. Who else finds it sometimes easier to count alone?

How do you drink it?

I was reading Kelly's blog and she mentioned that she gotten a Nalgene bottle, it's also what they use on The Biggest Loser. I also have a Nalgene bottle but haven't used it in a while, I've just been buying a 1.5 litre bottle at work at the beginning of the week and then refilling it for the rest of the week. Since reading a few articles that that MEC (Similar to REI in the U.S ) has taken all Nalgene bottles off their shelves I've been considering getting myself a SIGG bottle.

Unlike Nalgene bottles that contain bisphenol A, which is derived from petrochemicals and is said to mimic estrogen and may leak into the water, SIGG bottles are leakproof and lined with aluminum. SIGG bottles are pretty darn cute too, so many too choose from and you can design your own. I guess my question is, how do you drink your water?

Routine, where are you?

So last night we had a Christmas dinner, again. Yeah, you read that right. Since my mom didn't get the chance to cook a Christmas dinner this year, she decided to cook one last night, we had a full out Christmas meal. I was awesome but I feel a little guilty with all that I ate but it was only one meal out of the whole day AND I actually got on my treadmill yesterday morning in preparation, I also threw in some crunches (50) and push ups (15). I'm not big on exercise, but I'm giving it a shot this year, I don't think I will ever love it, but I'm going to try to at least like it.

I need new running shoes in a major way, as you can see....any recommendations?

Anne

I hope Monday never comes...and a recipe

This is pretty much all I've done today (like my duckie? haha), I hope Monday never comes.

While I was in the tub, I was reading my new What's Cooking magazine. Here's a recipe I think we will be making this week. It's 8 pts a serving. Here's something to think about, the red peppers in this recipe are packed with vitamin C and there's more than a days worth from the combination of tomatoes and red peppers in this dish. We could all use as much vitamin C as we can get this time of year!