Oh the temptations that face us at our weakest moments! I love a cinnamon bun or pecan roll for breakfast with a cup of coffee, or a cheese & jalapeno bagel slathered with cream cheese. More on this later.
My weight has been down to that lowest dot on my chart only once, and since then I've teetered up and down; a pound up, a pound down, a half pound down, two pounds up. But I'm not discouraged because I can see a downward trend, even though the scale bounces around every day. I know that certain foods can shoot it upwards, like a salty piece of pizza for supper, or a taco. Salt is not my friend. Since I'm counting every point (or calorie) I put in my mouth, and I'm staying at or below the daily goals, I know those spikes are merely false readings. And that is proven when I step on the scale and it's dropped back down.
Now to the title of today's post. My hubby and I have often gone to Safeway to buy cinnamon or pecan rolls for breakfast. Bagels are another favorite. Looking at various websites, it appears that cinnamon rolls rank between 5 and 11 points, depending on their size. One web site gave them a whopping score of 18. It was for some particular restaurant, which didn't mention size but it must be an enormous roll. I'm going to estimate that the Safeway pecan rolls we like must be around 12 WW points. We usually split them, so that means I could get away with a "mere" 6 points if that's how I choose to use up my breakfast points.
Something else we like from Safeway are their cheese and jalapeno bagels. I love to split those things in half and smear them with veggie cream cheese. Bagels come in at about 6 points for the big ones, or 8 for those with cheese in the recipe. I cringed to look up cream cheese and find that it has one point per tablespoon. One little tablespoon a bagel does not satisfy. I probably put four or more tablespoons of cream cheese on my bagels if I want to do it up right.
Now, if I use the whipped cream cheese I can have two tablespoons for one point, and non fat cream cheese is even better at four tablespoons for a point. Unfortunately, I don't care for the flavor of the whipped or diet. What I might try doing is buying one of those containers of baked potato toppings and mixing it into the cream cheese.
I'd have to resign myself to eating only half the bagel, which would be 4 points. With my own dietized version of veggie cream cheese, using two tablespoons, I could probably squeak by with a total of 6 points. That's the same as half of a pecan roll.
Typing all this into a blog isn't for anyone in particular to read... it's more like thinking out loud. I doubt I have any readers, unless its by accident, and that's okay. This is just such a convenient way to keep a record of my journey, in case I ever want to look back.
I've been following the Weight Watcher point system for 10 days. It seems very promising. I wish I could splurge and attend about four months of meetings, but no-can-do. For now, I'm just happy to see that I'm able to do it on my own. If I remain faithful to it but hit a plateau and can't lose any more, I might have to scrounge around for the cash and see if I could at least attend a couple months of meetings.
