Back at it! You know you missed me.

I missed you, too!  I'm officially back at "it" today.  It's just time.  At some point, I have to figure out how to take control of the household back from this new puppy, right?  Today's the day.

Had my All-Bran for breakfast.  Have my banana and Fiber 1 bar for snacks at work.  Have my meal plan all set for the week.  Have the groceried to make all of the things planned for the week.  I'm ready to ROLL!

Let's take a minute to talk about meal planning. SOOOOO important.  My brain needs to be locked down when it comes to food.  If I don't know what's for supper, it will just yell "ORDER PIZZA ORDER PIZZA ORDER PIZZA" until I do.  It's ugly.

To fight the pizza brain, I took all my recipes and ran them through the Recipe Builder on Weight Watcher's site.  There are other sites to do this as well if you search.  I *think* Sparkpeople.com has one as well.  But, I used Weight Watchers.  Most came through with a reasonable number of points per serving.  If they didn't, I looked at the recipe and figured out the best way to tweak the ingredients or portion size to get in a decent range.  Click print and put it in the magical recipe binder.  Ooooooo....ahhhhhhh.....magical recipe binder!  I can take a picture, but it's just a lime green three-ring-binder with colorful tabs and now, recipes in plastic sleeves.

Why is this nice?  Well, you have al lyour recipes pre-pointed out.  That way, you can add your intended supper points to your day right away and know your wiggle room for lunch and snacks.  It also makes meal planning WAY easier.  If you can just flip through your options, you know you need to pick enough to fill your week and be done.  The plastic sleeves are really nice too if you're a sloppy cook (like me!!) and need a buffer between your ingredients and the paper the recipe's on.  I shift the week's recipes to the front of the binder and as they're made, they go back to their spot.

Yup, it's a little anal-retentive.  Just like me.  But it works and that's the important part, right?  A girl needs to be prepared if she's going to succeed!!

ACK! I'm stuck in a puppy time warp.

It's bad people.  BAD.  Things have been in such uproar with the addition of Scout + the building of a GIANT patio for a swimming pool in the backyard + the end of the school year that I don't even have a firm timeframe in place of how long ago this puppy joined the family.

CHAOS.

And, for the record, I'm not a fan of chaos.  Some people thrive under it.  Not I.

Oh yeah, and the kid lost another tooth in the mix. 

The puppy needs CONSTANT attention.  Something we either totally neglected or blocked out from when Boo was a pup.  Or Boo was not this insane.  Scout would GLADLY chew up everything in this house.  Including the carpet, any random cords and all of the people.  Boo wasn't a chewer.  Scout would also gladly potty 850 times a day.  Boo was trained on indoor puppy pee pads.  It's just sooooo different and sooooooo exhausting.

So where does this leave the journey to awesomeness?  Well, it's still happening.....just a lot more slowly and solely fueled by the 1/2 of a brain cell I have left over after having to focus all the others on the puppy.

A beacon of light?  Now that school is out, Holland makes a great puppy wrangler and potty break facilitator.  Perhaps this will give my brain a chance to go back to writing amazing blog entries and focusing on being 100% on plan for Weight Watchers and my hiatused Couch 2 5K training.

He won't be a puppy forever..........he won't be a puppy forever.....he won't be a puppy forever.......