Easter was HORRIBLE!!!!! I had such a great plan. I ate really light for the first 2/3 of Saturday. And for Sunday I had planned my meal out. We were going to my mom's house. I was bring Sugar Free Cheesecake Pudding with Fresh Strawberries on top and these great Chocolate Cupcakes made with pumpkin that only have 2 points a piece. I checked with my mom to make sure there would be a zero point veggie available for me to fill up on at dinner. I thought I had made a great plan. But my willpower failed on me....
Saturday night we ended up at my Brother-in-law's house. DH's family is disfunctional at best, so when we were invited, Saturday afternoon none the less, to go over for to celebrate Easter with them we felt the need to say yes. So DH's parents go also--but apparently the other two brothers weren't invited. Weird! Anyway, they order Chinese food--my favorite! When it came, I made up small plates for each of my children (my BIL's wife couldn't believe my kids had never had chinese food because her kids LOVE it. I try to feed my kids healthy foods and don't want to introduce them to my unhealthiest weakness. DD didn't like it at all but she is picky. DS liked Lo-Mein, but only if he got pieces of brocolli.). Then I look over what there is and make my plan of attack. Unfortunately, I had already gone out for breakfast that day and only had 7 points left (again, we didn't find out about this until last minute). I chose a small scoop of lo mein, a small scoop of fried rice and a crab rangoon with the cream cheese scraped out. I was satisfied with that. I tried to eat standing up near the kids table so I wouldn't be sitting right with the food at the table. But they all made a big deal about it. I'm not one draw attention to myself when dieting. I like to just blend in, in life in general! So I went and sat down. When I finished, my bil starts to push more food at me. I said 'no thanks, I'm out of points for the day' (his wife has done WW and they are familiar with the system. She drives me nuts, though. She is well over 300 lbs, I would estimate. I don't have a problem with that. My issue is that she constantly complains about her health problem and seems to have no idea that it is related to her weight. She has had 3 surgeries on her knees/feet in the last 18 months. Each time she says the doctors don't know why it is happening. She also doesn't eat very healthy foods. I am overweight and I am well aware of it. I don't blame my health issue on anything other than my poor choices and my excessive weight. I wish she would do the same. Be accountable) Okay, so then she goes into how she hates WW, it nevers works for her, blah, blahblah, blahblah. Long story short, I eat more chinese food. My DH apologized the whole way home about how sorry he was for putting me into that situation and his family not being supportive. He's a good guy
, no matter how weird his family is.
So, we get home and the kids go to bed. We need to get the Easter stuff ready. The Easter bunny visits our house, but not to an extreme. We are
Christians and we focus more on the meaning of Easter. My DD, who is 4, questions the Easter bunny already (Quote: "Mommy, if we celebrate Easter as the day that Jesus lives, why does a bunny bring us candy?"). I think we'll give that up in a year or so. Anyway, DH went shopping for stuff for the baskets, I asked him not to get much candy. Get raisins, Goldfish crackers, and one thing of candy. That was the instruction. He got distracted apparently and came home with a bag of: Dove chocolate eggs AND Reese's Mini Peanut Butter Eggs AND Jellybeans AND Sweet Tarts. That was my first sign that it was all going to be bad. I snacked while I filled eggs. Sunday morning went okay. I didn't eat anything actually, because we were hurrying to get ready for church. Church was fine. Even after church was fine. We came back home so DS could nap before we went to Grandma's. I had a bowl of soup, nothing bad! At Grandma's though, I didn't even care. I think I had it in my mind that I had failed so miserably all weekend long, why work to make it better then? I had ham and brocolli and squash and potatoes au gratin (not so bad, except for portion sizes). For dessert, I had the two things I brought and a cheese and cherry pastry thing my aunt bought. Looking back now, writing this out, it wasn't as bad as I thought. Certainly not good, but not too bad either.
I am back today. I am a Weight Watcher!!! I am going to work hard to make sure I have a weight lose for Thursday. I'll post again with my meal plan for the day. Gotta go shower!
. I'm feeling better, stomach wise, so I am have a fruit smoothie I just whipped up in the blender. These are so yummy!! I can't believe I never tried it before. Today I used frozen strawberries, a whole nectorine, 1 c. fat free milk and a few ice cubes. I counted it as 4 points even though it isn't a whole 1 1/2 cups of strawberries.
. But I appreciate hime being her to help me.
Considering that everyone is sick, you did really well. On the plus side, you will lose that and more once you are better and can concentrate more on your program.
