Weight watchers magazine : Chicken, tarragon & new potato bake, tried and tested

For dinner this evening I made the chicken, tarragon and new potato bake from the may issue of the weight watchers magazine. It serves four and is 8pps per portion. I only managed to grab an apple and a muller light greek yogurt for my lunch today so I had a lot of points for dinner and evening snacks. as you can imagine I was starving come dinner so I plated myself one and a half servings for 12pps.

Mine didn't turn out as creamy as it looks in the magazine picture, but it was really tasty. Next time I make it I might add a little extra stock and/or extra creme fraiche and use extra pro points. I will definitely make it again, it was delicious and very satisfying. I also couldn't get fresh tarragon anywhere so I used a tsp of dried tarragon instead and I only used three chicken breasts as mine were bigger that the 125g ones in the recipe, but that suited me as I was only making it for two and william would eat two servings anyway. I served mine with green beans and broccoli as suggested in the magazine and it really bulked it up to a good sized dinner. even though I served myself extra I probably didn't need too, its very filling and I didn't finish all my potato.

My decision to try this recipe stems from me feeling very motivated from reaching my 5% goal, I just wanted to try something new and healthy. I also remembered a picture of me that I like to think of as my thinspiration, I think I am about the 12stone mark in the picture.

Please ignore the can of bavaria in my hand, this photo was taken three years ago when I was in my 2nd year of college and I'm sure it was too many beers that contributed to my weight gain! I am going to use this photo to keep me motivated, if I feel like giving up I will take it out and have a look at it. Even though I would give anything to be that weight again right now, I didn't feel like I was thin then either, maybe I never will feel like a thin person no matter how much weight I loose, but I am thinking I would like my ultimate goal to be 11stone, but I havnt decided for sure yet.

I reached 5% goal.

I am in a state of complete and utter shock and disbelief, I weighed in today - 2lbs. I really thought I was going to be up a lb this week. I was doing really good until friday last week, my period hormones set in pretty bad then and I was craving chocolate like a mad woman. I had dinner at my friends house friday night, the dinner was very weight watchers friendly but I had one cupcake, two choc chip cookies and some popcorn. I had decided not to drink any wine as I knew that myself and william were going to Nandos and the cinema with wills dad on saturday.
Will came to pick me up from my friends house on saturday and he had aranged for us to meet his friend for a coffee, I had a medium skinny caramel late from costa, it was 4pps. After coffee I was very hungry having skipped out of breakfast so we headed to eddie rockets where I used up 18pps (probably not the best choice). That night we met Williams dad for  Nandos, I had decided what I was going to order before I got there so that made it easy to avoid the temptation to order something non weight watchers friendly. I got the mango and lime marinated chicken breast pitta that had lettuce and a ring of pineapple in it, it was so good and with a side of corn on the cob it cost me 15pps. Then the cinema happened, ben and jerrys ice cream? yes please! add a free scoop to your order? yes please! uh oh. I have no idea what the pps were in 2 scoops of ben and jerrys, oh and I also split a large popcorn with will.
I completely stopped tracking on friday and didn't start again until monday, which was a very bad idea and also reminds me of the Mcdonalds I had for lunch on monday, yes I know, what the hell was I thinking? but at least I tracked that one and used my daily's for it, not my weeklies, I'm pretty sure they were all gone by sunday. I think I didn't track all weekend because I knew I wanted to be naughty and I didn't want to face up to it. So, you can imagine how I was feeling stepping up onto those scales this evening, I even told my leader Sue that I was sure I was going to be up. But I wasn't, I was actually down 2lbs, which means a total loss of 10lbs and I have reached my 5% goal. It felt way too good to be true. But it is true! yay, I am so happy that I have reached my 5% goal.
I feel like it is too good to be true though, so if I want to maintain it and not gain before my holiday in 2 weeks time I am going to have to be on my best behavior and track everything. which is what we discussed in the meeting today, we all agreed that we had to track and our leader suggested that we set a little summer goal to loose 1lb each every week for 8 weeks. I might not be able to achieve that the week I weigh in after my holidays but so long as im not up more that 1/2lbs I would be very happy.
eating half a packet of chocolate hob nobs after dinner tonight probably hasn't helped in my quest to not gain next week. I put it down to an after weigh in treat that doesn't need to be pointed, but am i just kidding myself?