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I found pizza!!! And other stuff…
I have had serious pizza cravings for several weeks. In NYC, even when on WW, I ate pizza often. I hadn’t missed it at first, but the past few weeks I kept thinking about it. Add the PMS from the past week into that and pizza is really the only food I wanted.
Do you ever experience that? Where you really, really want a particular food and until you have it nothing else will satisfy you? That’s what I was going through. It sucked.
Yesterday we got a coupon for a local restaurant that has pizza. I told my husband I wanted to give it a try sometime soon, and he said how about tonight? I think I loved him a little bit more at the moment.
So we ordered a pizza with black olives (which I was impressed they offered as a topping), mushrooms, onions and pepperoni. We went to pick it up and oh, it smelled sooo good. I was very hopeful.
It was even better than it smelled. Those first few bites were heaven… my husband was saying it took him back to NYC - but not me. It was even better than the pizza we got there. I’m sure you can get pizza this good at some of the fancier places, but your average city pizza joint can’t touch the pizza we ate last night. I think it was an orgasm on a plate, frankly. I was sooo satisfied afterwards.
I had 3 slices (!) which cost me some 21 points, and then I realized I’d forgotten to write down some things so it actually put me 3.5 points over… but I think it’s all good. I mean, I haven’t been over once since restarting in June and besides that I tend to estimate some things high, or I’ll eat less than a full serving of something and count it as a full serving anyway… so it probably balanced out… and it’s only 3.5 points and I’m not going to freak out over them. I’ve been having a rough week with the damn PMS and I’ve kept my focus, so I’m not worried.
Besides, I feel better today and I think partly that’s having gotten the pizza craving out of my system. I thought I’d have to wait until December to get pizza! Next time we order, I think I’ll get the kid personal pizzas or a smaller pizza. My hub had a hard time stopping and I almost went for that fourth slice (especially because it was a smaller one). But I didn’t, I put it in the fridge and I’ll eat it for lunch.
We are totally ordering from there again, though! I think perhaps only once a month, however, and when I have more Flex points to use!
On another food note, I bought the new Organic Rice Krispies recently. Breakfast has, for some strange reason, become a problem meal for me. The past week (maybe it’s also PMS related, I don’t know) I just can’t figure out what I want in the mornings. Well, I really wanted to open the new RK yesterday and I gave in (I already have a cereal open and try not to have two). I had single serving canned diced pears in the fridge and I love those on RK. So I had that with a mini Yoplait yogurt and 1% milk. OMG -the Organic RK are amazing. Seriously, I wanted to have them again at lunch, but fought the urge. They were so good I had no trouble deciding what to have today for breakfast. I swear, Kellogg’s is advertising their new organic cereals as being “as good as the originals” but the RK were even better than the regular ones. I was a bit concerned that they’d be bland or something, but they have more flavor, more crunch and the sweetness of them is actually stronger despite the lack of processed sugars. Yum! Go Kellogg’s! I am not going let myself run out of these babies, that’s for sure! I’ll have to try the Organic Raisin Bran, too…
We have our first guests visiting this weekend. I’m not sure if they are coming Saturday or Sunday, but we’re going to BBQ. My hub ordered top sirloins from Omaha Steaks, along with chicken breasts and a Carnegie Deli cheesecake… I really just don’t need NYC for anything anymore. That cheesecake has been in our freezer for a week and I’m pleased to announce I’ve barely even thought about it, except in context with the dinner plans. It’s tiny, so after four people eat some, there should be very little left (for the best). I will be sure to save Flexies for the weekend!!! I reset them today - going back to what had been working best - and I’ll deal with the visit from my in-laws when we get to that point. I know it’s going to be a rough few days of eating… we’ll be eating out Thursday night, ordering take out Friday and then eating lunches and dinners out on Saturday, Sunday and Monday! Eek… but I’ve got some plans already in place.
Thankfully, they’ve been to Applebee’s and have liked it. So on Thursday, we will eat there and I can order from the WW menu. Friday for lunch I’ll get some cheese, fresh fruit and deli meat so people can nosh on cheese and crackers and/or make sandwiches. I can stick with the 2% cheddar I like and some reduced fat Club crackers and have a 4 point sandwich like I usually do for lunch. Dinner that night is going to be Chinese takeout and I’ll get white rice and either shrimp and broccoli or shrimp chow mein. Then over the weekend, I plan to stick with salads for lunch with dressing on the side or turkey sandwiches on wheat bread, and for dinner I’ll get salad to start and try to pick lighter entrees. I already decided that if there’s a night when people order dessert I’ll only get it if the dessert is something I really want and I might try to convince my husband to share desserts with me - we do that sometimes. So, it might not be a “perfect” weekend, but at least I’m trying to think it through and make it work. In the past I’d just use it as a reason to be totally, 100% off track - and I wouldn’t even try to think of ways to keep it lighter and healthier. The other part of my plan, the most crucial part, is that my house is my safe-haven. I will not go off track here! I’ve determined that and I’m sticking to that. My husband understands and supports this, which is why he’s talked him mother all the way down to just wanting to make sauce… but we think we’ve even resolved that. I told him to have her make it in advance, freeze it and carry it on the plane in a cooler bag as one of her carry-on bags. That way she won’t have to work while she’s here - and I won’t have to have her cooking in my kitchen ;) ! Hopefully, this latest plan will get the job done… and frankly, even her sauce isn’t WW friendly. It’s loaded with olive oil and ground beef - it’s so thick I’ve told her it’s like chili. It’s fabulous, don’t get me wrong… but I don’t really want that temptation here, either. Maybe he can get her to make her shrimp sauce instead, if she must bring sauce. I told him if we have to let her make it, it’s fine… I just don’t really want that to happen! I know he will do what he can to stop it.
Oh, so the latest crazy plan from my in-laws comes from my FIL. I mentioned this on Jenniy’s blog last week. He wants to take his wife (and sister-in-law, because it’s a package deal now) to Italy next May (remember how we were supposed to go this year and my MIL backed out since we wouldn’t postpone our move???). He wants to go for three weeks… and he’s somehow convinced that my MIL won’t go if he doesn’t get my husband to come house sit. My husband, me and the dog, that is… he wants us to drive 1800 miles to NY to house sit. They have no pets. They have an alarm system. They have excellent neighbors to whom they are close. My husband’s uncle and wife live five minutes away. There is no good reason for us to go there! To drive 1800 miles each way to do this. Not to mention my husband’s business hours would be 9 - 8 on the East Coast… so we won’t be able to do anything during the week. Oh, and my FIL said he’d have his wife prepare food for us and freeze it, to save us the cost of buying food while we stay - great, so we can gain 30 pounds while we are there?
It’s not like I’d even be able to spend time with Missy. She’ll still be in school every day… my mother was saying we should consider it because we’d have a nice long visit then… except she’ll be at work all day and Missy won’t be home, either. So it’s only the weekends anyway and we’ll have to drive out there because the dog won’t be able to stay alone at my in-laws (their house is like a museum - full of breakable, rotating displays). Plus, as I pointed out, I’ll have a job. I’m not going to be able to take three weeks off of any job - unless I plan to quit at that point! They won’t give me that, and even if they did, I would be unlikely to get paid for more than a week of it - if that! Then there’s the part where our lease on this piece of crap house is up next July. Ideally, we’d like to just buy next year, but either way I don’t think we’re staying here another year. I’m not even entirely sure the owner will renew our lease because we’ve been demanding she fix stuff she clearly didn’t plan to fix (but hey, we’re paying $1450 a month - I don’t think wanting things fixed is unreasonable)!
So we may very well be actively involved in that process next May, too… packing (ugh, not again!) and trying to find a house to rent or buy. I think if we aren’t in a position to buy, we’ll renew if given the option. Otherwise we’d be moving again in 2008 because by then we’ll almost certainly be able to buy… and since I’d like to be pregnant at that point, I’d really rather avoid a move when pregnant. So hopefully my hub’s business will continue to grow (it’s doing well so far) and it will be possible for us to do buy next year, even if it’s a “starter” house we only plan to be in for five years or so… at least it will be ours!!!
Well, that’s all folks!