Hello!!
Remember when I wrote that I am "not perfect" when it comes to routines? Well, this week I have been waaay off. I rarely followed my kitchen routine. This led to me being very hungry tonight and not having anything to eat, or so I thought. I threw together some random ingredients and created a delicious salad that I just have to tell you about!! 
Ingredients
2 large handfuls of lettuce  0 points
some leftover grape tomatoes, about a handful 0 points
1/2 an avocado (diced) 5 points (yikes!!!) Next time I will use 1/4
some feta cheese (couple of tablespoons??) 1 point for 1/8 cup
some sunflower seeds (couple of tablespoons-ish) 3 points for 2 tbsp (yikes, again!!)
a squirt of ranch dressing 2 points for 1 TBSP (sheez)

Mix it all up and eat it. Yum!! 
WELLLL..... Only if you have 11 points in your evening meal budget. I did today, so I am okay. For some people that would be way too many points. If we used 1/4 of an avocado, and less of everything else, you could probably get it down to 6-7 points. Keep the veggies the SAME, though, cuz those are free!!! YAY!! Oh! I forgot to add cucumber. I have some of those that are about to go bad. I should have used them!

In other news, I read something on Dr. Oz's website about a campaign he has to lose 10 pounds. I thought I would share it with you in a nutshell:
Ten steps to lose 10 pounds:
1. NO soda (not even diet). Drink water instead.
2. Stop eating 3 hours before bedtime
3. 10 minutes of exercise a day (like after you load your groceries in your car, take your shopping cart to the farthest rack you can find, or do couch exercises)
4. portion control!! (weren't we just talking about that last week???) and no snacks bigger than your fist
5. weigh every day
6. take vitamin b-complex and fiber every day
7. take some other stuff and a multi-vitamin every day (see link below for more info)
8. Reinvent recipes (just like we did with my salad above)
9. KNOW your serving sizes, and how many of each you should have (ex: how many servings of protein each day, etc)
10. never go hungry, eat healthy snacks between meals  AND eliminate addictive foods you can't resist  

I can just imagine the fights they had over which ten items to put on this list. They actually squeezed two ideas in one "step" on a couple of these, but you get the idea. I especially like items 1-5. I am going to commit to these 5 behaviors. Care to join me?

Check this link for more info about the above list:
http://www.doctoroz.com/diet-and-weight-loss-center