Saturday, November 22, 2014

I haven't done this in almost 8 years….

In the last two days I spent all my weekly points I had. Between a date night at Cinnebar to see the Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1& going to Starbucks for Breakfast and Mexican for dinner the day before, they are gone!  But this was all knowing and planned. I figured it is better to spend my weekly points earlier. Now I have to be strict the rest of the week. The thought of that stresses me a little but I feel this is the better way to oporate. I went grocery shopping and today I spent hours doing something I haven't done in almost 8 years. I portioned and labeled EVERYTHING!! When I was on LA Weight loss and lost 30 lbs about 8 years ago, every time I'd go shopping I'd come home and put everything in baggies w/ the correct portion sizes. This time I not only portioned somethings out but I labeled how many points are in everything in my house!!!

labels in the fridge
I spent hours scanning all the foods in my cupboards and looking up foods that live in my fridge. My fridge has some good zero points options. :-)  Then I grabbed my go to snacks and portioned them out and into baggies for easy on the go snacks with out the; well I think thats about a serving. This was very informative and I found that I have been misjudging some of my snack portions.
Snacks good to go!
Because of the cold weather I've been wanting soup for lunch at work and so I went and got a bunch of progresso light soups that have the point plus values right on them. So I was writing them on top of the cans.  I thought Oh chili sounds good too. So I grabbed my favorite can of chili.
My favorite chili vs Progresso Light Soup
The Progresso soup is only 4 PP for the ENTIRE can!! then scanned my chili to get the PP value for that and O_O, Check it out for your self….
16 PP vs 4 PP! O_O
That can of Chili is 16 PP for the can!!!  I wrote NO on the top incase I get tempted.  And to think not that long ago for me to make a small tray of fries then cover them we cheese and chili and that would be dinner. We area talking about one meal being around probably 30 points and I only get 26 a day.  I know this did wonders about 8 years ago and yet I've postponed doing this for 8 years.  Not sure if it was because I felt I know enough and didn't need to do it or if I didn't want to really be aware and have to admit how much I was eating.






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