Esther Knits and Cooks

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Yesterday we went to the big mall in Norfolk with some friends of Jered’s from work. I went by H&M and bought two very cute shirts- then we had lunch at California Pizza Kitchen (I had a fantastic grilled […]

I can tell it’s the end of the semester by the amount of tension in my shoulders. The work is piling up and the end of the semester seems so close, but there is still so much left to do. Yesterday I had what I call a WW friendly day- meaning that I was too […]

Unfortunately going on a 65 mile bike ride adds some sort of weight- even though we burned way more than we consumed yesterday because we were sitting on the bikes all day and had little time to digest the food that we did eat, we both showed about a 1-2 pound gain this morning. Of […]

We did our Tour de Cure today! It went great- we completed the route, which was actually 69 miles, in just under 5 hours- about 4 hours and 50 minutes. We were riding at a really quick pace- 14.1 mph was our average over the entire ride!
The scenery was beautiful, the ride was nice and […]

Hello 150’s!!! This morning I snuck a peek at the scale, I know I shouldn’t have, but I couldn’t help myself. I saw the 150’s for the first time in at least 4 years. I am so thrilled to be still moving on a downward trend. It feels like I’ve been doing this forever now, […]

Hopped on the scale this morning to find that I’d lost a pound and a half this week despite that quarter pounder with cheese I ate on Sunday last week! So now I’m down to just a hair over 160, and so close to being out of the 160’s all together. It’s exciting to think […]

I’m making some pudding today. It’s a rainy Saturday and we might have some friends over for dinner tonight so I’m making the chocolate mint pudding recipe from the newest issue of Cooking Light. I tweaked it a little so that it is more points friendly- I reduced the sugar from 2/3 cup to 1/2 […]

We did a major spring clean on Sunday and ended up eating waaay too much food later Sunday night. We had leftover pizza and then went out for a burger and fries- there went almost all of the flex points for the week. But- it was a good thing, in a way. We decided to […]

Not too shabby! This morning was the weekly weigh-in and I’m happy to say that I’m now down over 15 pounds. I jump started my weight loss this week by getting in over 20 activity points. I exercised 4 days this week and worked out hard all 4 of those days. This week my goal […]

We woke up this morning and Jered pulled the curtains back to show me that our whole neighborhood was blanketed in the white stuff. Mind you, we haven’t had any snow at all this winter- and now in April we get about 4 inches! So it’s a snow day and I baked some bread and […]