Weigh in Monday!!!

Last week, I forgot to post about my "small" loss of .4 lb. It was a busy week. I didn't work out but I painted Chandler's bedroom in preperation for his room make over for his 6th birthday. But I did actually work up a sweat prepping, painting and cleaning up the mess. So that worked out, counting as activity points.

This week, when I weighed in, I was prepping myself for a gain, since I've been sick and went off plan. Who knew that I'd lose, let alone lose 2.6 lb! Which that means...I've hit 11.4 lb!!!! Woo! So now I didn't just hit 10, but went past it! I didn't work out, I ate junk (read: cake, yum!), didn't track, etc.

But I am happy to be down this week, and hitting my 2nd mini goal of 10 lb. I am toying with the idea of starting up my bodybugg this week so I can see if I can be better about tracking my activity and making sure I am really not going crazy on the calories. I know it means double tracking, but I think I'll do better using the Bugg to make sure I am on my way. I am now 49.6 away from my goal that I'd like to hit June 29! That's 4 months from today; 12 lb a month. I think the Bugg will help hit that goal of 12 a month.

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Melissa

Weigh in Monday

Happy Valentine's day; Also known as our anniversary! 7 years ago today I married Rob. So Besides the weekly weigh in update, I am going to have a *small* trip down memory lane (so here's a time line). :)

October 1997, Rob and I met and began hanging out with a bunch of mutual friends. By April 1998 we took a trip to see Aerosmith and "officially" began dating. Since I was in Corvallis and he was in Beaverton, it wasn't too serious but still we weren't dating other people. So in 2002 we got more serious again, and we began living together. By my birthday in April 2003, 5 years after we began dating we became engaged. February 14th 2004 we were husband & wife! By March 2005, Chandler joined our family! In June 2008, Lincoln completed our family!

Now back to the real reason for my post! Last week I missed workouts (doh!) but I also skipped ice cream (even if I had points for it). We also went out for dinner, a movie & Dairy Queen on Friday to celebrate the above. I was so freaked out, eating out! Rob told me not to stress on one meal, but I talked myself away from the pizza or breaded chicken parm, and had the Chicken Marsala and ate 3/4 of it. I guessed it was about 19 pts (Olive Garden's Chicken Marsala was, so I used that to calculate the points). We went and saw The King's Speech (AMAZING), and headed to DQ. Now I could have been good, but I did have Weekly Points and Activity Points, so I threw caution to the wind and had a Waffle Bowl. Only to find out it was 21 points! Yikes.

So after that evening, I was worried this morning. But I was down 2.8, for a total of 8.4! Woo! So I am 1.6 away from 10 lb! Can you guess what my goal is for next Monday? Yep, be down at least 10 pounds!

Chicken Fingers!

Rob was at school (again, lol) and we had chicken breasts somewhat defrosted (darn sink for emptying without my knowledge). I got the chicken safely defrosted, and went to my laptop to figure out what to do with them!

So I figured I'd look at recipes online. I found one on the WW site but I am not a huge fan of mustard. After reading the reviews, someone suggested egg whites, so here's what I came up with! It was a hit with the boys, and Chandler asked to take some left overs to lunch tomorrow. We served it with rice and frozen corn.

Chicken Strips
Weight Watcher's Points plus: 4

• 1.5 lb of chicken breast, cut into strips.
• 3/4 C of bread crumbs
• 1/2 C of egg white substitute
• 5 sprays of PAM, divided
• Italian Seasonings, Salt & Pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 450ºF. Place a large baking sheet in the oven to preheat.
In a shallow dish, pour in egg whites. Place bread crumbs with seasonings in a separate dish, mix well. Add chicken to egg whites; turn to coat. Transfer chicken to bread crumbs and turn to coat.
Remove the hot baking sheet from oven and coat with cooking spray. Place chicken on baking sheet, spray chicken with cooking spray (helps brown) and bake 6 minutes; flip and bake until golden brown and cooked through, about 6 minutes more.
A serving is approx. 3 oz, cooked, Serves 6.
Enjoy!