Fat Free Greek Yogurt Salad Dressing

I'm loving my salads this week! My lunch consists of a big beautiful bowl of freshly chopped vegetables.

This  was my lunch bowl. Broccoli and cauliflower in small florets. Aren't they beautiful! Next I added chopped carrots, walla walla sweet onion,  and celery. I added a serving of garbanzo beans, a sprinkle of low fat mozzarella cheese.  This salad looked nearly perfect.

Normally I would have added ranch dressing.... the regular full fat stuff.  My normal is changing. This is my new normal.... and I love it! Fat free Greek yogurt, with freshly crushed garlic cloves, a sprinkle of season salt, and black pepper.

YUMMY!

How many weight watcher points plus in this salad?
1/4 cup garbanzo beans = 1 point +
1/4 cup low fat mozzarella cheese = 2 points+
1/4 cup fat free Greek yogurt = 1 points+

When I need to save points (for example when we had family pizza night) I can skip the cheese and garbanzo beans making this a super low point side salad. This bowl of chopped vegetables is my new favorite.... my new normal!

Menu Planning For 4th of July

Considering I've been on a diet before, you would think I would have a preplanned menu for holiday weekends. But I don't have a plan. 

So far all I know about the week ahead of me... there is a BBQ tonight and a Potluck on Sunday. I'm not sure about any of the other days. I know there will be more BBQs and a lot of big family gatherings.

I have no ideas for the potluck. I think I can manage the BBQs and not have a problem with my weight watchers points. Grilled chicken, corn on the cob, fresh veggies and fruit for dessert. Someone is planning on BBQ ribs. My favorite. Ohmy.

I don't want to be obsessed thinking about food from now through the 4th of July.  I think I'm making this whole menu plan more difficult than it needs to be.

I Wish I Was That Fat

Earlier I was browsing through some old photo albums when I came across some old pictures of me... I wish I was as fat as I was back then. Seriously. I thought I was a fat slob some years ago. Yeah, no self-love in that statement is there?

That is how I viewed myself. A big fat slob. I look at the photos and I realize I wasn't all that fat. I was not a slob. I was a normal healthy, young woman. I wasn't skinny. I was actually smaller than today's average size woman... today's average size woman is about 160 lbs and wears a size 14.

Society made me believe I was fat.

My motivational photo is of me... I keep it where I can view it often, because seriously... that is the size I wish to be when all is said and done. 

Here We Go Again

What happened to all that enthusiasm I had back in January... it done left the building. So here I am starting over... again.

I didn't go back to all my bad ways. I lost a little weight, continued eating nuts, and healthy fats like salmon. I have been drinking more water than other beverages. Sometimes it is the sassy water from the flat belly diet book. Sometimes I just add a slice or two of lemon to my water.

A couple weeks ago I started back on the weight watchers plan. This time I'm going with the points plus plan. When I first started out, I was left at the end of the day with points left over. I'm sure that won't be a problem as I continue to lose weight and the points allowed in a day go down.

So that is where I'm at... weight watchers is the plan for me.