An Awakening

So yesterday was my first day back on program and I am VERY pleased with how well it went and how easy it was! It was like the tastebuds in my mouth had been awakened after years in a coma. Just call them Rip Van Winkle. I'd forgotten how GOOD some of the things I used to eat tasted. I haven't made myself a raspberry/banana smoothie or had a clementine in I don't know how long and right now, I want to reach back and kick myself in the ass for denying myself their yumminess all this time. Thankfully, I'm not flexible enough to do that yet so will just have to make due with asking myself "what were you thinking?" This, I imagine, is depressing for the kids, who are home today due to a snowday, as I am sure the entertainment value of watching their mom try and kick her own butt, losing her balance and falling over (kind of like that skateboard incident a few years back) would be absolutely priceless!

To plug another awakening of my the tastebuds, see the recipe below this post for the new recipe I tried last night for our supper. Don't forget, that if you make it and change anything , to adjust your nutritional information.

So after yesterday's blog about me rejoining Weight Watchers and my concern about the points they now give you and now having gotten over the hump of the first day, I have to say, I now understand why they gave us all extra points. Because of the way points are calculated now, the foods you once may have enjoyed on WW for a certain points value quite possibly are NOT the same. (Sneaky buggars!) Yesterday's lunchtime crackers that I spread my laughing cow lite cheese on USED to be 4 points for the two servings of crackers, now they are 6 eek!! Something I didn't discover until late last night when I logged into their etools which you get access to FOR FREE when you buy a monthly pass. Oreo thinsations also jumped up one too (if I remember right what they used to be). Not really a big deal, but makes you have to go back and recheck everything you once knew.

Overall a great day! And I HAD to have earned activity points for all the back and forth trips to the bathroom after drinking 2 liters of water!