Too Fat for Help

Yay for Saturday!  :)  I had a nice one.  It was nothing special, and actually I was kinda stressed all day, got my feelings hurt this morning, started, and got disappointed.   But it ended good with food and since I have weight issues I consider THAT a good day!  Haha

Okay, on to seriousness....  I took a picture of breakfast after I ate a few bites, but then I forgot my camera at home and missed my other food today.  So instead of posting all my food pics, I will just kinda tell you about it and then show you the one pic that's made today a good day.

For breakfast I had a Jimmy Dean D'Lights breakfast sandwich.  They're pretty good.  I had a $3 off coupon for them.  I wouldn't pay full price, just because, but I would def buy them again if I caught them on a good sale.  I ate a banana with it and drank FF hot cocoa.

5 points+.

I didn't eat again until lunch, which was technically our big meal for the day.  We went to The Perfect Pig.  I will save you the details.  I went in deciding I was going to enjoy the food today and not worry myself sick over numbers.  I ended up eating some of my food and giving other parts of it away.  But then I took a bite of this and that from the kids.  I tried to estimate high to be on the safe side.  This estimate does not include any kind of dessert, just country cooking.

35 points+.

About 6 hours later, we were STILL out and about running errands and grocery shopping!  We didn't want to spend money eating out again.  Everyone grabbed a candy bar.  The kids were thrilled.  They just about NEVER get their own candy bar.  They always have to split 2 bars between the 4 of them. LOL.  I guess we are mean???  I just think that if *I*, an adult, eat an entire candy bar, a kid surely just needs half of one.  I love these babies, and I don't want them dealing with the battle of the bulge later in life.  I wish I loved me as much as I love them and look out for them!  :-/   Anyway, at the register my eyes fell on a Heath bar.  All Walmart had were King Size ones.  I haven't had a Heath bar in years... but suddenly, I needed one.  Reckon that had to do with TOM?  But thankfully I didn't allow myself to buy the King Size bar.  Instead, I wanted until I got to Kroger.  There was not a single Heath bar of any kind at Kroger!  I started to just pick something else, but I knew that I wouldn't mentally accept a substitute and would still keep eating until I had a Heath bar.  Lol, sad but true!  So the husband took me to Dollar General.  Sold out of every Heath bar in the store.  Good grief!  Went to the last option - the gas station by the house.  Whoopee - Heath Bar jackpot!  Got me one.

6 points+.

I really enjoyed that Heath bar.  I'm glad it was good after all the trouble it caused me.  Hehe

So I came home and decided to try out my new knee braces and pick which one I wanted.  I bought two kinds and figured I would take one back once I was able to try them on at home and see which one was better for my knee issue.

Neither one fit.  :(  They both said one size fits all.  They were both fully un-velcro-able.  But then the stupid thing wouldn't stretch around my big thigh!!!  It would re-velcro but just barely.  I knew it would never hold. And it was squishing my fat.  Ugh.  That was very disheartening!  I told my husband, "Great!  I'm too fat for help!  I'll just keep dislocating my knee until they have to amputate my leg.  I was looking forward to having a brace so I would feel brave enough to start doing my walking videos again!  At this point, I can't even walk normally around my own house without my knee slipping, let alone walk for exercise!"  I was majorly bummed out.

So then I decided to cook.  Go figure.  Lol

Saw this on Gina's site this week:  Spaghetti boats!!!  Since I recently discovered I like spaghetti squash, I knew I had to try it.  So at nearly 10:30 pm tonight, I had  1/2 a spaghetti squash with 1/2 cup Ragu, 3 oz Tyson grilled and ready chicken, 28 grams Italian cheese, and a piece of garlic cheese toast.

12 points+.

In a nutshell:  I ate 58 points+ today, so I dipped well into my weekly points allowance.  That's okay.  I went ahead and weighed in this morning and will keep my weigh-ins on Saturday, but I decided to just keep my week going through Tuesday night since I started on Wednesday.  I think it's 14 weekly points I have left now.  I really enjoyed the food I had today, and I will be carefully tracking the rest of the week to make sure I stay within my points range until things reset on Wednesday.  I got in only 60 oz of water today but plenty of other liquids, too.  I never do as good on water on Saturdays.  It's just such a busy day for our family.  I'll report back tomorrow night!