Going Out With A Bang

Two iced pumpkin spice lattes, steak, garlic and pepper fries, salad, oatmeal cookies and milk.

So long Starbucks (except to redeem my 8 rewards). I will miss you.

Ciao cookies. And cake. And ice cream. ***sigh***

Goodbye potatoes and rice and everything nice.

But it will be worth it. Right??

Yes I Did....

Have a cookie that is. Well, actually 4 of them, with milk. But, they were oatmeal raisin walnut, so that makes them healthy, right?  And oatmeal is supposed to help you sleep, too.  So all around a good cookie to have.

Okay maybe not, seeing as it does have sugar.  But starting Oct 1, no more sweets except on occasion, along with my Starbucks.  That one will be the worse to give up, even though I will make my own here.  Man I hope it will taste good....

Doing....Okay.....

It's been a while since I've written on here but I am happy to say that, while I haven't lost any more weight, I haven't gained too much either.  I could have still been losing but then I went to San Diego last weekend and well, let's say I didn't stick to a diet. I ate and drank more than I should have, and when I came home and weighed myself, it was oh crap. I had gained back about 4 lbs. Though, the food and drink was pretty darn good so it was worth it (?). 

And then last week I didn't really watch what I ate but I didn't go crazy either, so I managed to lose a couple of those pounds. 

This past weekend was my 40th reunion, and I wasn't the only one who had gained a lot of weight through the years.  But on the other hand, there were a lot who still looked really good and almost just as thin as they were in high school. ***sigh***

So this week I am back on the bandwagon and had lost another pound this morning, which is promising.  Although right now I really really want a cookie. Really. I did buy frozen cookie dough today but once that is gone, no more.  And September is almost over and then so is my Starbucks (well, except my rewards. NOT going to give those up!)  I am going to be making my own pumpkin spice coffee and it will have way less calories. (But man I know I am going to miss Starbucks.)

Anyway,  that is my update. And I am still resolved to do this. Now I just have to get my butt down to that gym...

No More Cookies

Since there was left-over cookie dough, I made them up tonight and gave Mom four of them, and then I had four, and there were too left.  I told Mom to hide them and eat them because I don't want to be tempted and I'm not making anymore for a while.  Much easier to resist if they aren't around.

Went shopping with Janie today and admittedly I had 2 Starbucks...2 too many, or at least 1 too many.  But we had a late lunch/early dinner at Panera's and I had a Cobb Salad with Avocado, which was 640 calories I think (according to the calorie count next to the salad on the menu board). It also came with a baguette and at first I wasn't going to eat it, because of the calories and the carbs, but, well....  On the other hand I didn't finish the salad or the baguette, and I had water to drink.

So technically not a great diet day, but I will do better tomorrow. I won't be going anywhere (well, except to get my ONE Starbucks),(and maybe to the store to get salad stuff and veggies), there isn't any cookie dough to make up, and I will just behave food-wise.

Yes, yes I will.

Mom Wanted Cookies...

So tonight I made some snickerdoodles for her.  Yes, I ate a few too. I mean how can you resist cookies right out of the oven with a glass of cold milk? If you can you are a much better person than I am.

But.  I have been doing really well on the diet front and this is the first time I have had cookies in a while, or anything sweet for that matter. I have been eating good and my only splurge has been my Starbucks in the morning, which I wouldn't even be doing that if it weren't for the star dash: I have to get 15 drinks between September 1 -30, before 11am, and then get a bonus 20 stars for it. And well I can't resist the challenge and those 20 extra stars which translate into almost 2 free drinks.  If I were at home and going to work it would be a really easy thing to beat in 2 weeks, but here is a little of a challenge to get up and make myself go out of the house when I don't really want to until later.  Right now I am up to the 7th star I think, so I have 8 to go. I know I still have 20 more days to get the 8, but I am a just-get-it-over-with gal so that's what I'm doing. (Oooops! I just looked back at my other posts and realized I already went over this here....ooops!)

Of course I can't swear I will stop Starbucks when I get my 15 drinks, but on the other hand I do figure it into my calorie count so I am good there.  But it would be better to cut back and just drink coffee at home.  And calorie-wise I haven't been counting them down to the wire but am keeping a loose track of them (yes I am being honest about it to myself) and I have been really trying

The only problem I am having, and I am sure you can guess it, is that pesky exercise stuff.  Why is my brain-set on that so stubborn NOT to do them??  I wish I could kick myself in the butt and make myself do it.  Grrrrrrrr.

As always though, I'm not giving up.  I have already cut back on the eating, so the exercising will come next. It WILL.

Anyone else want to give me a kick in the butt??

I Resisted

Tonight for dinner Mom wanted Chinese food and I was starving and thinking ok, this once won't hurt if I have Chinese and so I went to go get the food and then I went to SaveMart and bought a zucchini, thinking I could make an omelet tomorrow with it.  When I came home I gave her her food, and then I made myself an omelet with veggies in it.  Now I do admit I ate one of the ribs that came with her meal and it was really good, but other than that I was a good girl and  I just ate my omelet and drank my glass of milk.

On a good day I do not really care for Chinese food but today because I was hungry it really looked good and she certainly had enough to share. And let me just say the price was pretty phenomenal too: $7.95 for three full size ribs, a good size helping of almond chicken chowmein and pork fried rice.  Plus the requisite fortune cookie of course. Anyway, a lot of food for the money, and she still had a lot of leftovers she can have for lunch.

And tonight sitting here I wanted something sweet to eat and there is ice cream in the freezer (no, I did not buy it, a friend of Mom's did) so I got out the vanilla and really after just a few bites I was fine and put it back.  Now believe me that is something.  Then again maybe it was because it was just vanilla and I'm not a big fan.  I usually like something with nuts, like Rocky Road or Baskin Robbin's Nutty Coconut or Pralines-n-Cream or Jamocha Almond Fudge, stuff like that.  Pretty sure if those had been in the freezer I would have eaten them in a heartbeat.  But I am really trying not to buy sweets to have at night as that is my biggest downfall.  Just the other day Mom said she wanted me to buy Snickerdoodle cookie mix to make cookies. Oh yeah that's a GREAT idea. Not.  I don't have a good track record with cookies.  I'll just have to buy her cookies she likes that I don't.

So, so far so good. I've resisted.

(Pssst....did I tell you Pumpkin Spice Lattes come out tomorrow?)

One Downfall After Another....

Well, not quite really.  More like no will power to stave it off.  You see, Starbucks sent me this challenge (they send different ones every so often), and it consists of going to Starbucks 15 times  between September 1st and the 30th before 11am, which you know is easy peasy for me, and then you receive 20 extra stars.  And I am such a sucker for extra stars.

If that isn't enough, Friday starts the Pumpkin Spice Latte Season, which we wait months for.  Nothing like that first Pumpkin Spice Latte!  I really had planned on drinking coffee here at home, even bought some pods of regular coffee to go with the creamer, and save a lot of calories.  I did see in a news video today how to make my own pumpkin syrup and how to make the latte myself, but I don't think it really saves calories.  Though, I wonder if I tried it with almond milk which has very few calories, as a lot of the calories have to do with the milk. Hmmmm.

Anyway, what's a girl to do, you know? Yeah yeah I know...a girl doesn't. She sticks to her original plan.

But TWENTY extra stars.....Pumpkin Spice Latte......