75 Pounds Lost Finally!!!!!!!!!!

Well I went to weigh in at Weight Watchers tonight with a heavy heart after my confession yesterday I knew it was not going to be good. I was all ready to hear I was up a little, I was expecting it. Well I know my jaw hit the ground when I was down a pound. A whole pound, an important pound.....  
It was the 75th pound lost!!!!!!!!!

So now I can officially say I have lost 75 pounds. I should feel awesome, I should feel good, but I don't. For some reason I just do not feel like I earned it this week maybe because I have not been as strict with the diet as I usually am, I am glad I kept up my workouts because obviously it was my saving grace this week! So I can walk away from this weigh in feeling confident that I will keep losing and reach my ultimate goal weight.

 I got my 75lb charm and magnet. Of course I added it to my growing key chain =)

Now onto the new challenge!!!

The Sisterhood is having the next challenge and I am so excited!!! The Holiday Hoedown is kicking off and I must say I am super excited!!! I had so much fun doing Shrinkvivor and I cannot wait to start this next challenge! I have an awesome fun team of gals the Hohoho Hoes :) I know we will rock this challenge and win it!!!!

This week our challenge is to earn our exercise minutes so I kicked it off tonight and spent 50 minutes at the gym! I did a 25 minutes run on the treadmill and then spend 25 minutes on the elliptical. It felt good to get into the gym after 2 days of rest.

Our other challenge is to outline our goals for the challenge:
-My weight loss goal is going to be 12 pounds. I lost 14.6 doing Shrinkvivor so I know I can at least get down 12 more pounds. With the holidays I want to focus and stay strict but not miss out on everything.
-My fitness goal is to workout for 200 minutes a week. I will aim for 30-40 minutes a day everyday. so I should get 300 but with work being 6 full days a week I am being realistic.
-My plan is to stick on Weight Watchers. It has helped me lose 75 pounds so far so I think its a good one =)

Confession Time

So the lovely ladies at the Sisterhood always have this True Confessions Tuesday and I usually (thankfully) do not have much to confess.....

However unfortunately this week that is not the case =(

I am working on opening a new store for work and although this is no excuse I just have been eating more this week. I am not sure why or really I have no excuse other than I am over tired and extra stressed and I have been munching more than usual. I already ate all my flew points this week and it is only Tuesday so I must weigh in tomorrow and I am truly dreading it.

I got in 4 workouts and I will run tomorrow morning. I have been keeping up with those. So I am at least staying on track where my fitness is concerned.

The problem is the damn eating. I felt like an alcoholic this week. There were peanut M&Ms in the house and I just could not stop munching on them. For me sugar is like a drug and it seems once it is in my body I just keep craving it.This makes me upset it makes me mad, it makes me feel like I will never be able to enjoy things without having this stigma of craving it for days after wards. So I ate a serving of the freaking stupid things everyday both days this weekend. It is just not something I am proud of but I would not be honest if I did not share my downfalls with you all too.

I also have been eating over my daily points allowance. Again not something I am proud of but it is what it is. My days have been starting earlier at 530am and do not end until 9-10pm at night. So breakfast is at 6am and I am just hungry throughout the day, I end up eating all my snacks and lunch by the time 3pm rolls around. This messes me up because I have a 5pm snack and do not have dinner until 7-8pm and by then I only have 3-4 points left and I end up eating more like 7-8. SO I have been eating more chicken and I had pop chips, things like that. I am not happy about it but I am glad I am still eating healthy foods and not binging on junk.

The old me would have been throwing it all out the window with all this stress and being over worked. I am bringing a lunch everyday to work still and eating my Lazy Pumpkin Oatmeal for breakfast and things like that. It is just I am eating too much and by the end of the day I am out of points and frustrated.

So what can I do, I am publicly admitting I have made mistakes this week and I am recognizing that I do not have it all figured out. I realize I still have food issues and I need to be more careful when making choices. I need to be more militant when it comes to snacking and cut back even if it is healthy like a banana.

I know tomorrow will not be a good weigh in and for me I must accept it and not get discouraged and move on.

I know I will have help getting through it though because the Sisterhood has a new challenge coming up and it starts tomorrow! I cannot wait =)

Lazy Pumpkin Oatmeal

Lately I have been trying to do the clean eating and I had to find a way to get whole grains into my diet more. I love oatmeal but being gluten free it is a pain you can only eat certain types of gluten free oats and honestly I do not have time in the morning to cook a nice pot of it. So I have not been eating much oatmeal and I kind of miss it! Well I bought some canned pumpkin this week and thought hey maybe the oatmeal and pumpkin together will bake like a pie but in a portable slice I can carry to work.


And so this is how my Lazy Pumpkin Oatmeal came to be:

Lazy Pumpkin Oatmeal

Ingredients:

	2 cup(s) canned pumpkin
	1 cup(s) uncooked old fashioned oats
	4 item(s) egg white(s)
	1/2 cup(s) SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener
	3 tsp ground cinnamon

Directions:
Mix punpkin sugar and egg whites
Add cinnamon
Slowly add the oats and mix well
Bake in a greased crock or pie dish for about 30 min at 350
Cut into 4 even pieces and each piece is only 2 points!


 I baked mine in a small crock so that I would have nice thick quaters to take to work. It came out whole as a nice round lil loaf:

 And it came out great! I had to have a piece warm last night it was too good to resist!

This is a simple 4 ingredient recipe you can whip up in literally 5 minutes and set to bake and you are done! It made 4 servings and only 2 points per serving!!! I had a cold piece today at work for my mid day snack and it was so tasty! The oats were just soft enough to enjoy and the pumpkin tasted similar to pumpkin pie. So if you love oatmeal like me but hate the time and mess it makes cooking it slowly over the stove you have to try this!

Next week I am trying it with apples =)