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oh, thanksgiving, you kicked my ass. i'm a little ashamed at the amount of food i consumed over the last week. so i'm gonna keep most of it to myself today. i will say that i was ok on my portions, excluding the crescents; there was just so much to eat :) i did try a new food over the weekend though. J took me out to dinner when i went up. cute, fancy place with a great menu. J had the four course; i had the two course (snagging some of his dessert ;)). we both ordered salmon chowder as our soup, which was super yummy. i didn't even mind that it had corn (i strongly dislike corn). my main course? le canard aux dates port-said with roasted squash and potatoes. yea, i ate a ducky, and it was delicious! i've always been hesitant to try duck as a) i'm not a fan of other poultry and b) i think ducks are adorable. granted, i also think piggies and cows are adorable, but i will eat the shit out of them. i really can't describe how good the duck was. great texture, yumtastic sauce and not terribly fatty. it went very nicely with my glass of wine, too. the entire dinner was delightful, and i'm proud of myself for actually trying something new. if duck were lighter in the points i'd probably eat it a bit more often

speaking of points, weight watchers rolled out it's updated program on monday. i, of course, was irritable about it and other things. i picked up my new docs when i weighed in yesterday, and read through them last night. the big difference is how the points are calculated. they've switched calories out for carbs and protein. no big. my issue is the technical updates they did to the etools system. i spent a good chunk of monday looking up stuff because they didn't have all the info. i realize they have an extensive database, but the shit i need isn't all there (even though it ought to be). i gave up on a few items because instead of letting me add it's nutritional values, it wants me to replace the item with something else. except there's no item that matches precisely (restaurant foods are not all made alike, people). so now i have to recreate a bunch of my panera foods to add them to my favorites. do not like. my biggest peeves though: 1) they deleted old bay completely so i can't update my crab dip recipe. you cannot substitute for old bay. anyone who says differently doesn't know old bay 2) they say they finally developed an app for non-iphone smartphones, which is a bold face lie. i rooted around in the blackberry app world (on phone and online) to no avail. i am extremely pissed about this because the mobile webpage sucks ass

since the calculations were revamped, a bunch of stuff is now higher in points. naturally, that means our individual point totals also had to go up and the weekly allowance went up. i now get 29 points, which is the absolutely minimum allowed per day. weird since i was not at the bottom of the range before. it was all autocalulated so i have no idea what the breakdown is now. oh well. so far i'm doing ok with this week. i was only four points over yesterday because i finished off the twix. today, i am dead on...

wednesday: cheerios with lotsa skim milk (6), panera tomato soup with croutons & baguette (10), half panera tomato mozzarella panini (10), half slice pumpkin butternut squash bread (3), two mini twix bars (4)

today: two eggs (3), mashed potatoes with gravy (10), 1.5 servings roasted fennel & carrots (3), 90 calorie granola bar (2), whole wheat spaghetti with meatballs (11)

...not terrible. needs more veggies :p there was a client meeting today, which meant leftovers. all the little sandwiches were gone, but there were bagels left. i think i'm gonna have a bagel with breakfast tomorrow. we're out of butter though so i'm trying to think of what i can use as a substitute. i wonder if N has any pb left... i'm also gonna whip up another batch of eggnog and some gingerbread cupcakes this weekend. then i'm gonna top it all off with some spiced vanilla whipahol. there may be a lot of drinking round these parts in the next two weeks. end of the semester crazy and all. plus holiday parties and weddings... i love the holidays :)

i don't think my hips will though ;)