Why is there no Jenny Craig Osso Bucco?

Home! This weekend at my Sister's cabin  I felt like a bit of a loser with my Jenny Craig food.  This morning my daughter wanted the Canadian bacon off my sunshine sandwich and I gave it to her. Usually it is tough luck to anyone wanting to share in my JC food. I get every bite! It is mine! I think the beagle has actually  lost some weight too, his begging is not working for him  Progress  So yhea me for sharing.

I  was perfect with breakfast and lunch and kind of fell a part at dinner. I thought this might be the case. Hopefully it will balance out. No huge bacon and pancake breakfast, no hot dogs or sausages for lunch no chips and drinks came out just before dinner. Progress...  It is a party weekend so I feel I was better than in the past I  did not buy any cheese but was in a hurry at the grocery store and walked in not sure of what  I wanted to bring in addition to the basil and potatoes my sister requested.  Next time a list. Do I really have to write down carrots and hummus?  I was suppose to bring a cake too  and ended up buying 3 smallish cakes at Robert's Market in Woodside. To quote someone I know  "too many choices in America."  One was angel food with a chocolate drizzle. Angel food cake is a diet cake choice! So I am trying.  I also paid cash. Only drank at cocktail hour and admittedly I drank and then forgot I was suppose to trade my potato and dessert for the booze. . Opps. Not beating myself up  until I weigh in on Thursday. It is what it is. I actually got pretty hungry and ate when I was hungry. I feel OK.

A little about food. My Mother is Italian and her parents had a Restaurant in down town SF. Now it is Foley's Irish Pub. My grandfathers probably rolling around in his grave as we speak. So Mom can cook. My favorite food growing up was stuffed breast of veal, the sauce from her osso bucco slathered on french bread would be my last meal if ever on death row. I did not get fat eating MacDonald's-  Pizza maybe- but not domino's ( though I had to try it since the commercials promise a superior pizza now- it was alright)

Tried the Skinny Girl Margarita- quite nice 4 ounces is less than 100 calories. Quite a difference to the real thing. They have about the same amount of alcohol as a beer.  But 12 ounces would be 300 calories so beer is better mathematically. I just could not do shots as the weight loss counselor suggested. I am over them for years now and that would be regressing!  Plus my family would kill me. Mary on shots  of any booze is a bit of a loud laughing nut that may cry at any moment.

Playing scrabble after drinking and eating JC foods makes for a game with quite an assortment of 2- 3 letter words. I lost to my daughter and my 85 year old Mother. Not my game.

The highlight of the weekend was when ,Elaine,  my 13 year old,  got mad at my Mom and I for not giving back her DS ( hand held video game) we had  way too much fun taking pictures of ourselves and mutating  them with special effects. Totally Rad!  I wish  we had this kind of a game when I was a kid. If you were cool you had pong if your parents failed as parents you were allowed to go to the video arcade where gangs hung out. They also hung at the bowling alley needless to say I neither bowl or play video games. For that matter I grew up in the fog where you might sneak into a near by apartment buildings pool to swim on the hot day we had. So - not a swimmer either.

Back on JC today full force and a  bit tired.  Bloomingdale's catalogue is in the mail box and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills premieres tonight!  I will not shop I will not shop I will not shop!!