Exciting News!

Today, my mom who has been recommitted to Weight Watchers for just over a year hit goal! I am so excited for her :) This time around she's lost around 25 pounds! I'm so proud of her and happy for her!

Me on the other hand....struggling still a bit. Last week my anticipated STS turned into a 0.4 gain...and I'm still hovering in this region so this week will probably not be a loss again. I did however just realize that WW prefers that you have a BMI of 20 (many sources say 18.5 is fine) so I can only go as low as 109. I'm only 4 lbs away so I'm not going to stress about how qucikly I get there. I'll probably discuss my best weight with my doctor when I see her in Aug.

My challenge for this week: Anniversary party. I'm throwing a party for my parents 25th Anniversary. I know I'm in charge so really I should have all WW friendly food. But since we are having 30+ people I just didn't feel like making ONLY WW food was going to work. I am making WW guacamole, hummus and having lots of veggies and fruit. I'm also making a light version of a taco dip, it's a family favourite and no one misses the sour cream or the cream cheese.

Here's our recipe:
1 container cottage cheese
1 packet of taco seasoning
chopped lettuce and tomato
shredded light cheddar

Blend the cottage cheese with the taco mix and top with veggies and cheese. Very low pts if you dip veggies or baked chips.

So hopefully I wil be too busy hosting to munch on the spinach dip, cheese ball or other unhealthy treats and won't taste too much when I'm cooking.

Hope you have a great Canada Day everyone!!

Updates and Ice Cream!

Admittedly, I have been slacking at updating this blog in the last few weeks. My weigh in is tomorrow so let me get you up to speed:
- Two weeks ago I had a pretty exciting loss of 1.8
- Last week I gained 0.6 for a two week loss of 1.2...not too bad
- I am on track this week to STS...so that's not great but it isn't horrible either
- Tracking is not perfect...but it's not totally off the table either and for the time being, that's fine with me. I'm just doing my best I can while still living my life
- In terms of upcomming challenges, I'm heading home both of the next two weekends - this weekend for a belated father's day and next weekend to throw my parent's a 25th anniversary party! So should be fun although maybe tough at times - I'll have to make sure I boost up the exercise these next two weeks.

Ok on to the fun stuff... I was recently taught that you can very easily make your own ice cream! Jeff and I were skeptical so we decided to try it out - and it worked well :) And I'm told it works with any kind of milk/juice making it pretty point friendly.

Here's how we did it:

Mix the ingredients in a small ziploc bag:
1 cup of skim milk
2 tbsps of sugar or sweetener
1/2 tsp of vanilla
*this is for 2 servings 1/2 c. servings, you can easily half it to just make one

Fill a large ziploc bag with ice and 5 tbps of salt (table salt works fine), then add the small ziploc bag and shake, shake shake! It takes about 15 minutes so you'll get some exercise!Note the oven mits...it gets super cold so you'll need something to protect your hands. It tatsed great! It's not the consictency of ice cream, since it's made with mik it's icier but still really good, I'd definatly like to try it with other ingridients...we were thinking maybe chocolate milk next time.

That's it for now, I'll update soon with this weeks weigh in and maybe some menus :)

Happy Wednesday!

Weekend Update

Down 0.4 this morning! Which is soo slow and painful but it's the right direction. I guess even if I maintain for a while that wouldn't be the worst thing I could do. But ideally I want to keep losing!

I know what I need to do....I NEED to exercise more. But everyone says you need to find what you love or you won't stick to it. And that is completely true for me! I'm not a gym person - way too intimidated! I started the 30 day shred and C25K but I struggle to keep them up.

I love to walk and I walk as many places as possible so it isn't like I don't get any exercise but I need to get more intense cardio and some strength training.

So I'm throwing it out there - help me! What do you do for exercise?

ALSO I am going to give myself a tracking challenge. I used to be so good at tracking and now I am doing it a few days a week and then not doing it the rest. So I'm challenging myself to track everyday ALL week. I challenge YOU too....let me know how it goes and I'll update next week :)