A day of many firsts! I reached my first weight loss goal. Weigh Watchers has some preset goals that participants are encouraged to engage in. You can set whatever goal you would like but their first two suggestions are 5% and 10% of your weight. So I hit the first goal and lost 5% of my weight. It was only 14 pounds and it took 5 weeks and it feels great, steady and strong. I'm very happy about that.
Another first was using the recipe book given to me by Cathy!! The only problem was that it took me 3 supermarkets and 2 boroughs to shop for it. That makes me apprehensive. I hope everything doesn't take that long to shop for. But, on a happier note, it was delicious! It was the "Complete & Utter Oatmeal Insanity" and it was delicious. I'm excited to see what I can do next!
Two goals reached in one day! Very cool:)
Showing posts with label Recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recipes. Show all posts
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
First One. Recipes.
My cousin said I should start blogging my experience with weight watchers. At 4:30 this morning I thought "why the hell not?".
Just to put my self image into perspective, I'm the biggest person (female) I know. And, here's the gist of how I feel...like a loafer is a world full of pumps. (that's both a shoe and an activity analogy, go me!).
Hardest thing so far? I'm running out of things to eat.
Yesterday I made up a meal by literarily smelling a bunch of stuff in the fridge. I started with ginger; anything that smelled like a match I threw in. By the time I was finished I had ginger, an orange bell pepper, red onion, and a green apple ready to throw in my skillet, its like a I was building a rainbow in a pan. How much of each thing did I put in do you ask? Damned if I know, I didn't think to measure...I'm not a cook.
I know how to make what my mother taught me and not much beyond that. Unfortunately, it turns out that Dominican food is like 18,000 points on the Weight Watchers scale and since I am currently limited to 41, I need to learn how to make something new. I'm not good with recipes either. I find myself completely lost and in need of looking up half the things on any recipe that sparks my interest. So, suddenly one simple recipe has turned into a research project that would require charts, graphs and other visual aids to accomplish. In the end I'm both hungry and frustrated, which only makes me even more hungry and doesn't help with what my "team leader" (that's what I'm calling the guy who runs my meetings) said we should do, which is to plan and prepare (my words not his). I somehow don't think that to plan and prepare one recipe was supposed to require me to do enough research to then write a dissertation.
Just to put my self image into perspective, I'm the biggest person (female) I know. And, here's the gist of how I feel...like a loafer is a world full of pumps. (that's both a shoe and an activity analogy, go me!).
Hardest thing so far? I'm running out of things to eat.
Yesterday I made up a meal by literarily smelling a bunch of stuff in the fridge. I started with ginger; anything that smelled like a match I threw in. By the time I was finished I had ginger, an orange bell pepper, red onion, and a green apple ready to throw in my skillet, its like a I was building a rainbow in a pan. How much of each thing did I put in do you ask? Damned if I know, I didn't think to measure...I'm not a cook.
I know how to make what my mother taught me and not much beyond that. Unfortunately, it turns out that Dominican food is like 18,000 points on the Weight Watchers scale and since I am currently limited to 41, I need to learn how to make something new. I'm not good with recipes either. I find myself completely lost and in need of looking up half the things on any recipe that sparks my interest. So, suddenly one simple recipe has turned into a research project that would require charts, graphs and other visual aids to accomplish. In the end I'm both hungry and frustrated, which only makes me even more hungry and doesn't help with what my "team leader" (that's what I'm calling the guy who runs my meetings) said we should do, which is to plan and prepare (my words not his). I somehow don't think that to plan and prepare one recipe was supposed to require me to do enough research to then write a dissertation.
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