Planning my Superbowl menu.

Superbowl is definitely a day to nosh on delicious food, but I am going to attempt to stay somewhat on the healthy side. I have been doing really well with WW over the last few weeks, even going out on the weekends, having drinks with friends, splurging on things I love (like an eggroll and General Tao’s chicken!).

So here are some healthier recipes I am thinking about for Superbowl Sunday:

• - Hot Spinach Dip, from Skinny Taste
• - Chicken Poppers, from Weight Watchers
• - Baked Zucchini Sticks with marinara dipping sauce, from Skinny Taste
• - Lower Fat Queso, my own recipe

And by cutting back a little, that leaves room for drinks and dessert!

*Note: I am not making all of this food. Maybe just a few things!

Some thoughts from the weekend.

• - Coming home from NJ late on Friday night, I left 30 degree temps to step off the plane into 70 degree temps…in January! This weekend was unseasonably warm. I drove around on Saturday with the windows down, wearing a t-shirt. I opened the windows in my house. I sat on my patio and read a magazine. It was wonderful, short-lived, but wonderful.
• - tumblr friends are awesome. I had a great time playing videos games, trivia and bowling at Main Event on Saturday. Looking forward to the next meetup already!
• - I burned the Katy Perry CD from my mom. She surprises me sometimes with her music selections. I also played Wii bowling and Just Dance with my mom and her friends. They can actually be a lot of fun.
• - My hobby of making feather headbands, pins and barrettes, has turned into a little side business. I made a whole bunch of pins this weekend after some ladies my mom met at a luncheon last week asked where she got the pin she was wearing. I even designed some cards to display the pins and barrettes on. I sold two headbands to my moms’ friends’ daughter, who owns her own hair salon. She bought two for herself and took a few to sell in her store. My aunt bought a pin too. 
• - I made my breakfast and lunch for tomorrow and even planned out my dinner for tomorrow night. Planning out meals and having them ready to go makes it much easier to stay on track with WW. I basically have the rest of the week’s meals planned out too.
• - One more day off would be nice, but oh well.

I used to like celery with peanut butter. I decided to have some today and it was pretty disgusting. There goes my theory that peanut butter makes everything better.

Butt = Kicked.

It’s been maybe two years, maybe less, since I have done yoga.

I feel good. I feel a little sore. And I will probably feel more sore in the morning. But I feel good. Thanks, American Power Yoga.

Yoga-licious.

I’ve purchased three yoga deals over the past month or so - Groupon, DealOn and BuyWithMe. Each one was $30, which is about the average price for just two yoga classes, so I got some pretty darn good deals.

I am back on my diet after blowing it in Las Vegas last week. I am feeling motivated and ready to really give this a go and tomorrow I am going to go to a yoga class. The BuyWithMe deal was for 10 classes at American Power Yoga, which I have been to before and is close to my house, so I am going to hit up the 6:30pm class after work.

I’ll follow up with a post about how it goes.

These are pretty darn good. For some reason, they taste like coconut, which isn’t a bad thing, but I don’t think they are supposed to taste like that.

Beer.

Since I forgot to eat breakfast, I have enough WW points to have three light beers tonight. Woo hoo!

Since I love fruit, this new version of WW actually seems a little easier. Granted it has only been two days…I was starving when I came home tonight and downed some leftover whole wheat pasta with chicken that I made last night and then cooked some broccoli because I was still hungry.

I think I need more protein throughout the day. Or I just need to stuff my face with fruit and veggies all day.

Back on track…for now.

For not going grocery shopping for a couple of weeks, day one of getting back on track went well. Thanks to my well stocked pantry and freezer, a pineapple that my mom gave me over the weekend and a 6 inch turkey on wheat from Subway for lunch, I was pretty much set for all of my meals.

I had every intention to go grocery shopping after work today, but after being out of the office for 10 days, catching up on hundreds and hundreds of emails, client calls and stressing out and the rain and cold, I just wanted to come home and crawl under the covers.

I even found some staples (corn, black beans, diced tomatoes and chicken broth) in my pantry and freezer and was able to cook up a pot of mexican-inspired soup for lunch for the rest of the week.

I cleaned out my pantry and threw away a sad amount of expired snacks and stuff, so I might have to run to the store to pick up some staples, but I am going to try and eat what I have. The fact that I am going to be traveling next week for a week, it’s probably a good thing I don’t stock up now.

The one thing that is on my mind though is New Years Eve and the amount of food and alcohol I will probably consume. And what’s even worse is thinking about Las Vegas…again, all of the food and alcohol I will probably consume. Every day is a new day.

Getting back on track.

I have been feeling rather plump lately. All the holiday goodies, drinks with friends and eating out have really gotten to me.

Over the last couple of weeks, I signed up for two yoga classes - one from Groupon and one from Living Socials. Both at 30 days of unlimited classes, so I plan to start up after the new year.

Today, I took a big step, in my opinion, and signed up for Weight Watchers. I have always just done it on my own and wrote down my meals in a notebook. Now I bought the new books and signed up online to track my points and activity. I am going to try to start tomorrow and get used to the new points system for a about a week or so, but then I am off to Las Vegas for a tradeshow for my client (CES, for those of you interested).

Traveling for work, when I don’t have too much of choice on meals, have the opportunity to eat expensive dinners, drink nice wine and stay out into the wee hours of the night, is very difficult for me. I know I won’t be able to stay on track while I am in Las Vegas, but I need to try to make better choices. And I need to learn how to keep the mentality that every day is a new day and if I eat bad, drink too much or don’t exercise, I can always start over the next day.