Another good weigh in!

I lost 2.2 more pounds. That gives me 8 pounds lost in Weight Watchers. And 15.4 pounds lost in total! I can notice the difference in so many ways. I am feeling better, more upbeat. Doing more on my own. I have been to a lot of places on my own in the last my own. The scooter helps. I hope there is a day in this system that I wont have to rely completely on the scooter. I still have a lot to go but it takes time. Little steps at a time. I will be happy if I lose 1-2 pounds a week.

Today has been tough. I have been having one of those I want to eat and nothing else. Thankfully it is the last day of the week. Tomorrow is a new day. Hope to stick to this plan. I have been doing well so far. And I plan to continue to do so!

Movin on down!

Weigh in today. Lost 2.6 pounds this week. Total loss at Weight Watchers is 5.8. And total loss is 13.2 pounds!!! I am so happy! I hope that this continues to be the case. I love that I am making better choices. And I cant wait til Spencer starts counting. It will help me out a lot more. Til next time!

My good choices is helping others!

Spencer weighed himself tonight and told me that he has lost 4 pounds. He was happy about that. I told him that if he would start counting he would drop the weight he wanted to lose in no time. Last night he had me figure out how many points he would get on WW. However, he ate 3 bowls of chili tonight was 21 points. So I guess it has to be baby steps to get him to follow a plan. But I see little things changing with him. He does help me out when it comes to cooking and getting food out. He makes sure we can go somewhere that I can find the points. Also he is willing to share plates out with me. So it the little things to help me. Now how to get mom and dad to stop asking for ice cream and cookies lol.

Six Gun Chili

Spencer wanted to make food tonight. He found this Six Gun Chili Mixin's package at Walmart.

What you need
~1 pkg Six Gun Chili Mixin's - 10 points for whole package
~water (we ended up using 5 cups but it will depend on how much you will want to make it thinner or not) - 0 points
~2 pounds raw ground beef (we used 85%lean and it cooked out to be 1 1/2 pounds) - 32 points
~14.5 ounce tomatoes with juice (we used diced) - 0 points

Other additions:
~Pinto beans drained (we used a 20 ounce can) - 18 points
~ 1 onion chopped - 0 points
~ Black olives (we used 3 ounces) - 3 points

Directions:
~ Add two large brown pouches of Mixin's to 1 cup of water in a bowl...Set aside.
~Brown 2 pounds hamburger(ground beef)(we cooked it fully)... drain the grease. (after the grease was drained we weighed the cooked beef and it came out to 1 1/2 pounds cooked. But it will vary depending on what % of fat it is. Best thing to do is weigh it and count the points then!
~add 14.5 oz can of tomatoes (juice and all)
~ stir Mixin's and water mixture into the meat and tomatoes. if wanted, add drained can of pinto or kidney beans. Bring to a boil.
~ Now add small red pepper pouch for heat levels like these:
TENDERFOOT CHILI: (Family Style)... wave the unopened pouch over the chili... don't add any... but tell 'em you did.
OUTLAW CHILI: (Medium Hot)... stir in 1/2 the pepper... hot enough to drive the in-laws out.
SIX GUN CHILI: (Hot)... add all the pepper-thenstir fast if you want to keep the spoon!
(We used the whole thing and it was not too spicy. it had a good flavor with the right amount of spice!)
~Simmer uncovered for 30 mins. or longer. adding water as desired for a "thick stew" consistency. (At this point we added in the onions and black olives) As an option, the large white pouch of masa flour can be used to thicken chili. Mix it with warm water to a batter thickness and add to the simmering chili. (we opted for this and glad we did!) You've just made the best chili that ever met a mouth!


We really like this chili. You can tweak it however you would like. We did and accounted for the points!

With everything it made 9 Cups of chili. Total points added up to 63. So each 1 cup serving was 7 points. But each batch can be different point wise. So best bet is to keep track of what you add in and measure and weigh everything.

I highly recommend this to everyone. Especially if you like chili!

A visual motivator!

Thanks to Pinterest I now have a visual motivation tool! This will help me to keep focus on WW and losing my weight and getting to goal! I have 98 stones in the "pounds to go" jar and 10 in the "pounds lost" jar. I started at a weight of 267.4 when I started eating better and decided that I needed to lose weight. Then 2 weeks later I started Weight Watchers and I was at 260 with the result of losing 7.4 pounds on my own! The two weeks I have been on WW I have lost 3.2 pounds. A total weight loss of 10.6 pounds. My goal weight is 160 (or 180 I haven't decided yet). I have a ways to go but these motivation jars will help. I will NEVER want to put a stone back in the "pounds to go" jar (even though it will happen from time to time). But how much more of a motivation is it to NOT have to!

Another week another loss!

Yesterday was weigh in. And I did well! Even with going to Disneyland last weekend I lost 2 pounds! Down 3.2 so far. I have another 97ish to go. But it feels good. It didn't come on fast so it won't leave fast.

Doing well so far!

So I have been doing well and staing within my 41 points a day on WW. So far this week We have been making better choices here at casa de Crazy! A few of the things we have do is splitting meals when we go out to eat. Spencer and I split a 3 entre meal at Panda Express. A little word of advice is to avoid the bejing beef. 1 serving is 23 points. good thing we split it! Tonight we went to walmart to get zero point and low point snacks for disneyland this wekend! I am determined to stay on plan this weekend! I have been doing really well and I have not touched any of my 49 extra points for the week. My last count day is friday. Weigh in is on friday morning and i am very possitive. If I dont use any extra points tomorrow then I will have 90 points for disney on friday! Not that Im going to all of them. Saturday will start a new count week. And I am determined not to go over my 41 daily points. I have been getting help from spencer. Even though he is not doing the counting he helps encourage me. And he has stated that he wants to start counting soon! That will help alot. Only issue I am having here at the house is my parents. Tonight they were requesting donuts. My mom got some bad news today and she just really wanted donuts. but for the most part they are helping out. They did have me get them cookies tonight at walmart but they get to stay in their room! and away from me! lol. Thanks for reading and I look forward to posting my first loss (hopefully) on friday.

Weight Watchers official start!

I went in this morning for my first official weigh in at WW. According to their scale i was at 260.0. Almost 2 weeks ago I was at 267. I have lost about 7 pounds in 2 weeks! But what matters now is from this point on. I have a goal of losing 100 pounds. My goal weight is 160. But my first goal is a 5% goal which is 13 pounds. After that my next goal is to hit 26 pounds (10%). And from that point on I will set another goal until i hit my goal weight. I hope that I can stick to this new lifestyle. Tomorrow I start counting points. Hardest thing this week will be the food at the wedding tomorrow, lunch at my aunts on Monday, and then Disneyland on Friday and Saturday. But I have a plan! That is the way I have to do it. To plan and count. I feel better already and I want to keep this up. I know with the help of others I will make it. I didn't put the weight on overnight, so it wont come off overnight. It will take time. Which I have plenty of.

Already losing!

The other day when I posted I was at 267 lbs. Well I am happy to say that today after eating I was at 264. I have lost almost 3 lbs already!! And I am not even on WW yet. I will be going friday morning and getting my first official weigh in. And then Saturday I will be starting the plan! Cant wait!!

Tazo Passion Tea Lemonade

An awesome drink and only 7 calories per 8oz glass! Passion iced tea bags from Starbucks! It says to brew 4 cups but I do 8. I make the hot water in my hot tea maker. I just don't put tea in the maker so I add 8 cups hot water to the bag and let set for about 5 min. Then pour it in a very large pitcher. then add the minute maid light to it. Mix and put in fridge to chill. Then enjoy! Tea is 0 calories. Lemonade is 15 calories per 8oz glass. Add I all together it comes to be about 7 calories per 8oz glass. Why not 7.5 calories? Because there is more tea than lemonade. The lemonade is less than 8 cups its about 7 3/4 cups. Where a the tea is 8 cups. This can totally replace soda for me!

Total Points Plus Value 0 points for 8oz!!

Starting anew!

Well it has been decided by myself that I will be starting, and sticking, the the plan this time! I am at the heaviest I have ever been. I weighed tonight and i was at 267. I really need to do this, this time. With not being able to exercise because of the health problems, I will need to do something to stop gaining weight. The last 3 days I have already been eating better! And it feels great! I really hope that I can stick to the WW plan and that people will encourage and help me. I will be posting from the app a lot but I will also be putting up a tracker and other things on my blog. And all my previous recipes are on the old WW points plan. eventually I will post the points plus values on the old recipes. But any recipe I post from now on will have points plus values. I look forward to going back to the meetings and sticking to this! And in all making my life better physically and lose weight!