Day 1: Crab Cakes

It is the end of day 1 and it ended with a nice treat (a 2 point skinny cow ice cream sandwich). Today has been okay. A few times I wanted to reach for the chocolate instead of something healthy, but I JUST SAID NO! I ended up right at my total of 24. So far so good. Tomorrow's goal is to drink more water.

Recipe 1: Crab Cakes

Makes 4 servings

1 pound cooked crab meat
3/4 cup bread crumbs
6 scallions minced
1/4 cup low fat (1%) milk (i use skim milk)
3 tablespoons reduced calorie mayo
2 tablespoons minced parsley
1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoons ground white pepper
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon reduced-calorie margarine

combine all ingredients except flour and margarine. Form into crab cakes and refrigerate 1 hour.

coat each cake in flour on each side

in large skillet, melt margarine and cook cakes until golden brown and crispy. 4-5 minutes on each side.

per serving: 260 calories, 8g total fat, 849 mg sodium, 2 g dietary fiber
5 POINTS per serving (2 good sized crab cakes)

Weigh in and SCREAM!!!!

My husband and I just weighed in and to our surprise (especially mine)....we weigh EXACTLY the same. This is a major bummer for me because I am 5'4" and he is 5'11" and not to mention the whole gender thing. Definitely need to do this WW thing. I am feeling very depressed and have been running through my head how this became what it has. I am feeling very ashamed at how much I weigh, and will not be posting my weight. I will just update with the weight I lose.

By what WW says, I should be around 25-27 points per day.

I started my morning by having a WW bagel with 2tbs of fat free cream cheese (3 points in total) and a cup of blueberries (1 point). This pretty much filled me up for the morning - it also helped that I busied myself preparing meals (dinners) for the week.

For lunch I had a WW frozen meal (7 points). I will do my second snack (was too busy that I forgot the first snack) and am looking forward to the crab cakes and salad for dinner. Crabcakes (2 decent sized cakes) are worth 5 points total and I will have a side salad with 2 tbs dressing (Italian) worth 1 point.

I am excited to do this plan, especially with the support of my husband - he decided NOT to have a frozen pizza (with our usually serving size worth 16 points!) for lunch for the football game. THANK GOODNESS he decided not to have that because I don't think I could control myself with the smell of pizza in the house!

I will post the recipes of the food I made later today.