Weight Watchers Wednesday

Week 46  Weight lost this week: –4 Weight loss in total 35.5 lbs

What the what!?!?!?!  I had a big loss this week and I couldn’t be hap­pier!  4 lbs is a mas­sive loss for me and I was doing a bit of a happy dance around the room after­wards. Then I got home and ate some of my birth­day cake (at 10:30 in the morn­ing) then I went gro­cery shop­ping and bought some peanut but­ter and Nutella and cel­e­brated some more by eat­ing a PB & Nutella. I then ate an Alpen rasp­berry and yogurt bar, then I had a McD’s cheese­burger and small fry, then I had a spoon of Nutella, a 1/2 bag of crisps, then I fin­ished off Squidge’s sup­per, then I had a veni­son burger…  you get the pic­ture, no?

So, my ques­tion is this, why do I always eat my weight in junk after hav­ing a fab­u­lous result? It’s almost like I have to undo all my hard work. I will admit that I was hun­gry… at first but come on the nutella? the crisps? more nutella?  By 3pm I had used up daily pro­points allowance but I STILL ate crisps, nutella, veni­son burger and the alpen bar. *thumps*self*on*head* I am an numpty and if any­one can help me change this behav­iour I’ll be for­ever in your debt.  How do you stop your­self from sab­o­tag­ing your­self? What is it about me that has this com­pul­sion? HELP!!!

I’ve drawn a line (a grubby Nutella stained line) under yes­ter­day. Today is a new day and there will be no (ok maybe a lit­tle) Nutella on my toast.

Now to some fun things! I’ve got­ten another Weight Watch­ers care pack­age and oooooh inter­we­bers it’s was filled with some yummy things. I say was because I’ve worked my way through a lot of it (and still had a huge loss Yay!) My favorites so far have been the choco­late diges­tive bis­cuits– 1 pro­point per bis­cuit and it really hits the spot with a cup of cof­fee.  The tor­tilla chips and good too– great when you want a salty crunchy treat.  Stay tuned for my “review” of the Weight Watch­ers wine– I’m a bit scep­ti­cal but am going to try it and you my hon­est opinion.

Before I fell off the Weight Watch­ers wagon I found a recipe online and because it was low pro­points I thought I would give it a try. I did a bit of research and found that it is a pop­u­lar Israeli dish, hav­ing never tried Israeli I thought I’d give it a go.

Shak­shuka

8–9 toma­toes
2 pep­pers
2 cloves of gar­lic
4 eggs
water
driz­zle of olive oil
cumin
salt
pep­per
cayenne

Chop the toma­toes and saute for about 2 min­utes, add the diced pep­pers and cook for another 2 min­utes. Add the water, gar­lic, cumin, salt, pep­per and cayenne and cook for another 5 min­utes. Crack 4 eggs and con­tinue sim­mer­ing in a medium heat until the eggs are done to your taste.

I didn’t give a mea­sure for the water because the recipe I used called for 1tbs and I found that to be too lit­tle. The dish was a lit­tle dry because I wanted my egg whites to be cooked. Use your judge­ment on this– remem­ber that the sauce will dry out as you cook the eggs so best to have more water in the begin­ning as it will dry out by the time the eggs are done.  If you do a search for this recipe you’ll find it’s very pop­u­lar and for good rea­son– it was deli­cious!  It was a 3 pro­point meal (more if you eat bread with it) and it was very filling.