The Verdict is In!

So today we ate only our frozen meals.  Breakfast was breakfast pizza, and it was a very small portion.  Lunch was the Cuban sandwich quesadilla (delicious!), which was also a small portion (one tortilla folded in half).  Dinner was turkey enchilada casserole, which was supposed to be 4 servings, but we ate the whole thing because we were starving.  The pizza was soggy from defrosting, but I'm sure if I put it in the toaster oven it would be fine.  The quesadillas were a bit soggy, but once I microwaved them they were fine (and I'm VERY picky about texture).  The casserole was perfect, and it was so nice to take about 5 minutes total preparing dinner. Not to mention less than 5 minutes of clean up. I forgot to mention, we had the sweet and spicy chicken stir fry for dinner last night, which I served over brown rice.  I added a little soy sauce, but it was fine.

My verdict so far about the once a month cooking: It's totally worth the planning and the day of cooking.  However, we will have to make our own menus and shopping lists to fit our appetites and taste buds.  We will be lucky to have 2 weeks of food from this menu, much less an entire month.

Some of you have asked about my weight loss.  I'm down about 18 pounds, which is great.  Over Spring Break I relaxed a bit too much and gained 6 pounds (you can imagine my reaction when I stepped on the scale), so I skipped weigh in that week.  The next week's weigh in I was down .2 lbs from the week before Spring Break (so I lost 6.2 lbs, but it only registered .2 overall, I hope that makes sense).  This week I lost another .2 pounds.  I believe we only have 2 more weeks until the final weigh in, so I'm hoping that my new meal plan and the nice weather will help me get over my hump and loose a few more pounds before the competition is over.  I don't want to get too confident, but we are currently in first place with a 4% lead over the team behind us.  So unless they go crazy and loose tons of weight or one of us goes off the deep end and gains a million pounds, we've won this thing.  It helps when the other members of your team have lost over 30 and even 40 pounds :)