New Beginnings

This past Sunday, the sermon title was "New Beginnings."  I mentioned I liked that phrase better than New Year's Resolutions.  2012 is a new beginning--I have plenty of things to begin again, but for this blog, it is weight loss.  Last night I bit the bullet and weighed in at my WW meeting-- every member gets a "pass" if you don't want to weigh in on a particular day (p.s. you can't do that EVERY meeting, though!).  After writing yesterday's blog, I thought I'd better start getting accountable again--even if it meant a weight gain.  Talk about your new beginnings-- I lost three....3....pounds.  Helpful Hubby remarked "That's a mistake!"  Thank you.  Yes, it probably was a mistake. We can't only look at that slithery scale whom I affectionately named "Kaa."  That Kaa can be mesmerizing and deceitful!  After all, I "helped" myself to a breakfast taco while in South TX and let's face it--everything and I do mean everything is bigger in TX.

You gonna eat all of that?! This is a dinner plate and not a dessert or salad plate!

The artery-clogging special- egg and bacon and lard. yum

I ate pizza with friends--twice!  I went to two tamaladas (a tamale dinner with all the fixin's), a traditional turkey dinner (think Thanksgiving) and now I'm on my way to get the Alka-Seltzer.  For the record, I consumed 1/2 of my humongous breakfast taco, 1 and 1/2 slices of thin cheese pizza...one time with a garden salad, I only had 2 tamales at each of the dinners, and I only ate turkey and non-creamed veggies.  So although I wasn't perfect (what's that?), I did watch what I was eating and didn't go crazy like in times past.  May I hear "Bravo?"  LOL  So Kaa might have taken a little vacation too and looked past my holiday decadence and gave me a pass- but just this time.  I have to celebrate the non-gain but not take it like I can eat that way and still lose.  This morning, my new beginning morning, I am serving up a power breakfast.  I love McDonald's yogurt parfaits and really they are only $1.00, but I'm still in my jammies and would prefer to make my own.  That way I am in control of portion sizes and brands and hands that make it.

 

 Here is how it rates with WW.

My power breakfast = 4 WW PPT

1 cup of WW vanilla yogurt = 3 ppts

1 cup of blueberries= 0 ppts

2/3 cups of Post Just Bunches Cinnamon cereal= 6 ppts.  (note: I did not want the whole 2/3 cups of cereal so I measured down.  2/3 cups can be divided into 6 Tbsp of cereal so 1 Tbsp=1 ppt.  Not a bad way to start the day, huh?  What are you having for breakfast?  Let me hear.