Weigh-In Results and What's Cookin!

Happy Weekend to All!  Hit my meeting this morning and the scale was smiling.  Down 1.5.  That's moving it in the direction I want.  After last weekend, I really stuck to it and watched everything, tried to stick to nonprocessed foods, fruits, fresh veggies, yogurt, high-fiber cereal, high protein.  It paid off.  Okay, the running helped a little too.  :)

So it's nice and cool here on the east coast this weekend.  In fact, I think it was Friday morning, we awoke to 46 degrees!  Sounds like cooking weather to me!  We're still trying to get as much as we can out of the tomato garden frozen.  This is the third weekend in a row I've got a pot of fresh pasta sauce on the stove.  We'll have pasta tonight and then in the freezer with the rest for some winter weeknight when I'm just too tired to cook.   If there are more tomatoes to cook next weekend, think I'm going to switch it up and try some homemade tomato soup.

I've also been baking.  As some of you may already know, I have a new found love of baking cupcakes, since last year around this time.  I didn't bake much over the summer though.  Now I'm trying to find some WW-friendly cupcake recipes.  I tried a pumpkin spice cupcake earlier, but I messed something up and they ended up too dense, very heavy, not to my liking (nose scrunched up).  I also found a WW PBJ cupcake.  Since I make PBJ cupcakes a few weeks ago, I thought I'd try the WW-friendly one.  They're already baked and filled.  Frosting after dinner.  The only difference that I might not like is these are chocolate cupcakes.  Chocolate PBJ?  Not so sure.  Will get back to you on that one.

I've been a little stressed lately.  My cat was diagnosed with diabetes in July and he's not yet controlled.  He's been acting kind of weird lately, sits at his water bowl or in the middle of the kitchen howling at night.  I'm tired and little stressed over it.  So when I'm stressed and worried, I cook. 

Tomorrow I'm roasting a 20-pound turkey that's been in the deep freeze for a while.  Yeah, you're right, it's just me and the hubby, but I'll freeze one size of the breast for another time, will have dinner, sandwiches, and TURKEY SOUP!!!!  Perfect week for it too, since the paycheck was pretty scrappy this week.

So tomorrow is my long run.  This week is 10 miles!  Whoa, can't believe I'm actually running these distances.  I am so excited.  Half-marathon is only 4 weeks away.    I can't wait to get there.  Looking forward to running it with Aimee, my running buddy who just registered for the event this week, and also looking forward to maybe meeting up with some other blogger friends out there as well.

So again, happy weekend!  Dinner time!