Health & Fitness Thread - Weekend of 2-6

Brandy, sounds like you made good food choices considering the circumstances. And sorry about your DD. Praying she feels better today!

I have eaten well all week, and I will weigh in tomorrow. Praying it yields a bit of a loss anyway. I have also been entering some of my recipes into WW. Mom's stuffed peppers are 6 points, and my spicy meatloaf is 4 points. So very excited about that! And they make great leftovers too.

Have a great day everyone!

Oh no, so sorry to hear about your DD!! Poor thing, and poor mama too!

Sounds like you did great on eating. I'm actually always quite surprised when I look up mashed potatoes - as long as you keep the portion reasonable, which you clearly did, the calories on them aren't too bad. And that's with butter in the nutrition info I'm looking up, I always look at restaurant values. Great choices.

Nothing too much up here. Trying to decide what to have for dinner tonight. My parents might stop by for awhile to watch a little of the super bowl, so I'd like something that's easy to have warm but not a sit-down dinner. I have some chicken cilantro soup in the freezer, I think, I might use that.

Yesterday I made Fathead Pizza Crust. I used egg beaters to bring the calories down a bit. It was VERY easy to make and seriously tasty. A great low-carb alternative, I can see also making a really thin panini on it or using it in place of a bagel thin or something like that. I think once you cook them they would freeze well too. The calories add up fast but I divided it into 6 separate crusts so it wasn't too bad. I'd say 1/6th was about the size of a normal slice of pizza from Papa John's. I patted out with my hands and then did use my rolling pin to get it as thin as possible - I like my meals to look substantial, LOL.

It is about 50% higher in calories than my cauliflower pizza crusts, and no veggies in it, but much more versatile and closer to bread. I think I'll stick with cauliflower crusts day to day but keep this recipe close by for when I want something that is more bread-like. It would make excellent crackers (crisps up once it cools off) or breadsticks too.

Thanks for the review AN


Well, yesterday ended up being a huge splurge day for me, but I think I needed it. For breakfast we went to a diner. I had a BLT and hash browns. Calories were not too bad, just not the way I typically eat.

The. We met some friends at a casino for their son's 21st birthday at midnight. I was starving by 1:00. I did not plan well and could feel myself getting shaky. I was going to get something from their cafe. A turkey sandwich, but it was so dirty and the food prep girl was redoing her ponytail. Ughhhhh. I could not eat anything they had. I ended up with the only repackaged option. Candy. The hershey bar with almonds was the least horrible of the horrible choices.

Then on our way home, 5:00 am, we all stopped at Denny's.

However, it will be a great day to try out my spaghetti squash for lunch considering I will need to be low calorie until dinner.

Hope your daughter is doing well, Brandy. Stupid ice. I fell on it last year, and my friend said my head bounced. No bueno. Recovered fine, though, and she will too.

Eating this week was good considering. Considerations: I was in the south (oh, yum), dinner wasn't served until 9pm one night, there are snacks and food and soda available constantly. It was fairly easy this week, and I don't know why, but I won't question it. Can't weigh this weekend because of shark week, and I don't need that kind of morale killer.

Going to run/walk/schlep this morning and do some yoga. Back on the road tomorrow, need to replenish my good snack stash and take my running clothes. I'll be in San Diego, and without excuses to get out there and do stuff.

TankTop, I have 1 cheat meal, and 1 dessert every weekend. It keeps me on track all week, knowing I get something special on the weekend. I almost always share, so it's not RHAT bad, but, it hits the spot.

Kristin, if you search or look through my post history, I shared my Cauli pizza recipe in the last couple months. It is kind of long and I am on mobile the biggest thing I do differently than most recipes you find online is I do not cook or squeeze the moisture out of my Shredded cauliflower before using it. I have used recipes with both mozzarella and goat cheese and like them. I am using goat cheese now to keep calories down vs the quantity of mozzarella needed. I may try to make a hybrid from fathead and Cauli in the future though. Also, use parchment paper with either, this is an absolute must.

I decided to take the fat head recipe and make mini taco cups out of it. It worked well! I rolled it out and used a biscuit cutter to make the size to fit in a mini muffin pan. I think they would be better in a full size muffin tin as they do puff a bit when cooking, but you could easily fill these with eggs, pizza topping, taco stuff, etc. Super sturdy.

I had my first official weigh-in yesterday at WW. 
I'm down 2.6 lbs my first week. 
I'm pretty happy with that considering my exercise was lacking and I had a couple of days things went a little awry. 

I did not exercise yesterday. I'm working on it. It's so not my favorite thing to do and I tend to find ways to avoid it. I'm pretty good at avoiding it. Ugh, but it's going to be a necessary component to me losing weight so I need to do it. 

To that end, my goal this week is to get 3 workouts in. It's not a lot, but honestly, with my work schedule, weekly doctor/orthodontist/therapy appointments for the kids, I can barely keep my head straight. So three days seems do-able.

Today, my daughter had a make-up rehearsal for the Spring ballet production. It was an hour and a half so I decided to get my sneakers on and walk. I walked 3.5 miles in about an hour. I'm ok with that. I've got my steps for the day (yay!) so Day 1 down!

Now, I'm gearing up for the Super Bowl. I have turkey chili cooking now and making some chicken wings. There will be some guacamole and chips. I'm planning on the chili and some wings a bit of guac and a few chips 'cause I like 'em.