WHAT I EAT IN A DAY ON WW TO LOSE 145 POUNDS - LET'S DECORATE FOR HALLOWEEN!! WEIGHT WATCHERS

Good morning. [clears throat] Good morning, my friends. It is 7:57. Oh my gosh, my hair is stuck in my seat belt. 7:57 a.m. on Tuesday. You see this video on Wednesday. We meet in the car quite regularly on Tuesdays. Tuesday is my one day a week to really run some errands. Monday is a shipping day for me and then it's kind of counting my inventory, getting ready. And then Tuesday morning, I typically get everything ready for the week and then I'm able to go out and run some errands. So, here we are. We got a couple things that we're going to go out and do together. I did have my protein coffee this morning as always. Always always have my protein coffee. I am starving. So, we are going to Starbucks. It has been a minute since I've been to Starbucks. I typically go to Duncan because it's more affordable, but I really liked that Cannonball energy drink with the freeze-dried fruit on top that I got a couple weeks ago. And I've been craving their turkey bacon English muffin breakfast sandwich with the egg whites. Oh my gosh, it's so good. And I've just been craving that. So, that's what I ordered on my app. So, we're going to get the sandwich, the turkey, bacon, egg white, and a venti of the Cannonball refresher. I'll put all the information here on the screen for you. That's going to be my breakfast. And honestly, most likely my morning snack since it is already 8:00 a.m. And I will just have an early lunch today because we are decorating for Halloween today. I am so excited. I have been chomping at the bit to put up my Halloween decorations. I actually asked Troy, I actually told Troy a week ago, I said, "Hey, in the next week or so, I need you to get all the bins down from the racks in our garage. I want to decorate my office and the house." So, he said, "It's only September." I said, "Well, by the time we decorate, it'll be midepptember. It'll be the middle of September. That's fair." So, he told me when he got up this morning that we would uh that we'd get all the bins down. So, when I come home from running my errands, I'm just going to park my car in the driveway because we have to pull it out in order to access the bins because those racks sit right above where my car is parked. So, I typically will do Halloween and then I will transition to Thanksgiving or fall and then of course Christmas. And we always have my in-laws over for Thanksgiving. So, I do like to decorate. give it a little bit of a Thanksgiving vibe in my house for the month of November. And then obviously after Thanksgiving, it is full-on Christmas mode. And this will be our second year with our new tree that we bought last year. So, I'm excited for the holidays. Last year, they were tainted because, as you know, we lost Lola the day before Thanksgiving, and I'm actually dreading the one-year anniversary of her death that's coming up here pretty soon. I know that's going to be a really hard day. And what's even crazier is I can't believe it's already been a year. It doesn't even feel like it. Doesn't even feel like it's been a year. It's kind of crazy. I miss her so much. Like every single day. Every day. And I've just poured my love into Palmer, which is great, but I just I miss her. It's just she's my best friend. And it's just it's it's something I'm probably never going to get fully over. But anyways, on a brighter note, we don't need to be emotional today. We are going to Starby's. I'm going to go to Walmart. Troy needs iced tea. And I shop for groceries tomorrow, Wednesday, the day you see this video. And when I shop at Fries, you guys know they very rarely have his iced tea. So, I'm going to be proactive and get it when I'm at Walmart. And I'm going to Walmart to specifically look at Halloween stuff. Not only decorations, but stuff for my Rise parties in the month of October. And I also want to look at the clothes. It has been a long time since I bought some new clothes. And I'm going to Hawaii in November and I'm going to on a cruise that I earned with Rise in January. So, I'm just going to peek around. I like I said, it's been a long time since I really purchased any clothes. And then after that, I think I'm going to go to Ross and look around there again for Halloween stuff and clothes. And then if I have time, I'll run over to TJ Maxx. It's right across the street from Ross. But basically, that's what I'm on the hunt for this morning. I just feel like doing a little shopping. It's been a while. I even thought about going to Hobby Lobby, but that is quite a drive and it's not really worth it. And I'd like to be home around 10:00 uh when Troy gets up so we can pull those decorations down and I can get started on that. So, let's grab breakfast. Our energy drink, Walmart, Ross, maybe TJ Maxx. Starbucks secured. Cannonball refresher. Love. Got some energy. And then my turkey, cheese, and egg white. M I've been craving that. I'm going to eat my sandwich. And Walmart is literally across the street. I was eyeing this dress. This is so cute. But they don't have my size. Extra small and then 2XL. Dang it. That is so cute. So, I got this swimsuit on clearance for eight and then this dress, like this green kind of emerald maxi dress for 10 and the swimsuit for eight. And with all my trips coming up, that's perfect. And now I'm in the Halloween section. Let's see what we can find. First of all, adorable. Also adorable. Oh my gosh, look at the mug stack. That is so cute. Ooh, I might be in trouble. So, I came out unscathed. I did get four of Troy's tees for $10. The swimsuit was actually $10, not eight or whatever, but still a really good deal. I did grab some of the pumpkin light and fit. And then I got these cute cups. Look how cute these are. For giveaways, they were $4 a piece, I think. I got the ghost and the little skeleton. That's all they had. They didn't have much in the way of Halloween decoration. So, let's go to Ross and see what they have. All right, Ross already has way more stuff. I literally just walked in the door. They have some of the cutest things. I'm going to look around, see what I can find. Oh my gosh, the pink pumpkin bowl. Stop it. Oo, I almost knocked over this fence thing. What is this? garland. That is so cute. $12.99. Oh my gosh, adorable. Okay, let's go see what we can find. All right, Little Ross haul. So, they actually had some pretty decent things. Not really any decorations that I had to have, but I did get quite a few good things. So, first up, we hit up the dog section. Got the squeaky ball, squeaky bone, uh $4.99. And then Palmer loves these duck jerky. These are only $9.99 and I want to say I pay like 12 on Amazon. So I got him a bag of those. And then they also had the chicken coins that are just one ingredient made with real chicken. And those were $4.99. And then look at how cute these Halloween towels are. It's a set of two for $6.99, which is a really good deal. And they're nice and soft. So, I grab those. I do put a towel down when I do my parties just to like so my it's not a brown desk, you know, when I'm showing the jewelry. And then speaking of parties, whenever I have chip clips as a giveaway, they are pretty popular. And these are little dog chip clips. Look how cute they were. Look how cute. $3.99 for six of them. That's a good deal. So, I grabbed the two packs I could find. And then also, I want to do a Halloween straw topper advent calendar. And I did get some straw toppers on Amazon, but I found these. It's a set of six and they were $4.99. So, there's little bears and then this one is pumpkins, ghosts, cats. So, really six for $4.99. That's less than a dollar a piece. So, those are really cute. And then lastly, for an end of live giveaway, look how cute this is. It even has a little pumpkin charm and the straw. It was $9.99. M tumbler, 30 oz. And I just thought that would be really fun as an end of live, something we can give away during Halloween. So, I think my total was right around $59 for everything. Not bad. And then we'll make some lunch around 11 or so. I don't know what I want to have. Ate all of the meal prep pin wheels, the ham and cheese things that I made for breakfast. Those were really good, by the way. We already ate all of those. Troy's been eating the pasta salad that I made. I don't even know how much is left. So, I have to think about it. I have to think about what I want for lunch today. But, let's go ahead and head home, get this stuff put away, and then I'm so excited to decorate. So, here is my lunch. I have a half a sandwich. Troy and I split a sandwich and then I'm going to do a couple of the mandarins. It's already 1:00 and I'm going to make dinner here in 3 hours. So, we're just going to do a light lunch. All right, the hair is up for the Halloween decorations. I'm already sweaty. We were in the garage. We got everything down. I'll flip you guys around. I started pulling a few things out. Put a couple things outside. Yeah, I'm really excited. My office will be second. We'll work on the main part of the house first. Oh, I already did. We have like holiday pillows. If you remember in our old house, we had that other seating area, like that second living room. So, we have all these pillows. So, I put one of them here, the little boo pillow, and then one over here. And that's the only pillows we have for Halloween. You ready to put the decorations up? >> Can you move your balls for me? Yeah. Look at your smooshed one. Smooshed. Okay. So, there's one Halloween bin. That looks like towels. More kitchen. >> I already cleaned that one out. That was the outdoor. And then it has the costumes in there. >> And then this one is empty. So, that's where I put the home decor after we take it down. So, what I typically do is I take all my home decor down because I go from Halloween to Thanksgiving to Christmas, put all the home decor in an empty bin, put it in the garage, and that way it just stays in that bin until the holidays are over. So, this is the main Halloween bin. I'm going to start cleaning that out. You want to help? >> All right, we got everything pulled out. I always feel like I have less than I thought that I had. So, we're going to start decorating. I'll kind of give you a rundown of what my plan is. I have a lot of towels, which is good. And then I've got all my table runners, my little cheesecloth, spiderw webs. I kind of like to lay these all around. They just add like a little spooky vibe. So, I'll do this counter over here because I do that for Christmas as well. Oh, and I have these lights from the Dollar Tree. We'll do this counter over here. And of course, this counter over here. I've got stuff that goes on my kitchen table. We'll do the kitchen table and then the TV stand over there. Counters are cleared off, wiped down. I always do that. It's actually a really good time to just do some extra cleaning. I've been packing away the home decor. And like I said, we just keep this I actually might put this in the office. We just keep all our home decor in here till after Christmas. Makes it really easy. just an empty bin. Actually, I am going to put this in the office. And then this counter is clean as well. And then I typically store, we don't really use this room. You can see I have my envelopes for rice and some shipping supplies. So, I usually keep a lot of the bigger home decor stuff in here just for storage. And you don't want to put candles in your garage in Arizona cuz it's hot and they'll melt. So, this space comes in really handy just for storage. Like I said, no one uses this room unless we have a guest staying with us. It's cute. It's nice in here. So, it actually works out good. I have my rice stuff in those cabinets. So, yeah, works really good for some extra storage space. So, the first thing I want to do is table runners, cheese claws, lights, some bat lights. Kind of do that. Change out my plugins. Start there and then [clears throat] move to decor. All right, we are decorated the main part of the house. I'll be working my way into my office next, but here's what's on my table. Absolutely love this. This lights up in the middle. So, it's just perfect with that table runner. And then I did replace our nightlight with this kind of spooky skull from Bath & Body Works. And then here is my one counter. I actually These are those lights I bought from the Dollar Tree. I'm telling you guys, they are the best lights. And if they die, big deal. They were a dollar. So, that is one of my counters, my stove, and then over here, I don't do as much because I need my knives and my cooking utensils, but I think that is absolutely perfect. Just enough. Just enough Halloween. And then over here, I love how this turned out. Our ghosts. And then that metal boo was an outdoor sign, but the metal stakes that put it in the ground broke, so I used it as a decoration and I quite like it. And then my little ghost. And then over here is the happy Halloween I painted last year. And then I put my coffee beans in the boo container for Halloween. And I think that looks really nice. Just again the perfect touch. On my island, I always do like a little display. I've got my Halloween towel. I use my little Frankenstein and we always put candy corn in there for the season. And then I just put a couple little cute things. There's some spiders on there and that's just something fun on my kitchen island. And this area is our butler area in our living room off of our living room. So I have my lantern, my glow-in-the-dark skelly sweet haunted home candle boo. Did kind of the black and white vibe. And then I did this cute little table runner that, by the way, you guys, table runners are fantastic for counters. And then you saw that I did the Halloween pillows. And then the only other area I decorate is over here. So I have my little trick-or- treat gnome. And then I just place a table runner. It just adds a perfect touch. My little garland. And then my haunted house. And then this is our TV stand. And then again, the butler area is right there. So, it all is Halloween everything. I have two of these. I put one here in my hallway by my front door. And then I swapped the other one out in my powder room. But I did this counter as well. So, we come in the garage right there. And this is our powder room. So, I have this pumpkin. By the way, that was a welcome sign. So, it has a piece of wood. I'll show you. Has the welcome. I just flipped it up cuz I never use it as a welcome sign. And I think it's adorable. with my home sweet haunted home and my just a bunch of hocus pocus. And again, just adding this material, table runners, spiderw webs. It just makes it just finishes it. And then our powder room off of the main area. I just have this cute little lantern. And then again, the other pumpkin. So, moving into my office, I need to remove everything off of my background cuz that's where the majority of the Halloween decorations are going to go. I did pull a bunch of stuff out of the den that was in those cabinets from last year and then my bin for my office. And that's where we're going to start pulling all the goods. You ready to do the office? Okay. So, we're 95% done. As I started decorating, I realized that I just don't have enough bigger things to fill some of these spaces. So, we love Amazon. I just Amazon myself an extension cord for my lights and a couple of bigger pieces of decor. So, I'll show you guys those in another video because they won't show up until tomorrow. But what I did is I put the little plate here, Melo's skull plate that I used to use with the with Bomb Party for fizzing, which we don't fizz, thank the Lord. And then I just added some fun Halloween decorations. My spider lights I love, but I need an extension cord. And then those will be up a little bit higher. But basically just took down all my decorations and added some fun Halloween. I went ahead and cut that little garland in half and put one on each side. And then of course Lola never goes away. She'll stay up all the time. And then this center area you're not going to see when I'm live cuz I cover it. But this is the area right here where I need just some bigger things. I just have a lot of these small things like this. And that's just not big enough for this space. So hopefully what I got on Amazon will work. And then over here my light up boo sign. One of my favorites. And then I do have the other half of that garland. And then I just kept my greenery at the bottom. I don't typically move that even for the other holidays. So, I think it looks really good. And then, oh, these over here, I got these on Tik Tok shop. Those light up. So, that'll light up and the boo sign will light up. So, there'll be like a little light on each side of the shelving. So, feeling good. Feeling festive. Oh, and in the bathroom, I just added this little boo sign on the counter. Oh, these are our new counters that we got when they shipped the other ones. They actually upgraded us. And then this lights up. So, I thought I could turn that on, too. The little trickor treat tree, but real simple, really easy. So, for dinner tonight, I am making Cracker Barrel meatloaf. I'm so excited. And mashed potatoes. So, you're going to need salt and pepper, 2 lbs of ground beef, brown sugar, half and half, ketchup, worshesure sauce, mustard. I'm doing the Bob Evans easy breezy mashed potatoes, a green bell pepper, two eggs, Ritz crackers, an onion, and sharp cheddar. So, for the meatloaf, in a big bowl, I have two lbs of ground beef, one and a/4 cups or a sleeve of crushed Ritz crackers, a cup of sharp cheddar, green pepper, onion, and a half of a cup of half and half. I'm going to add some salt and pepper, and then we're going to mix this together. All right, here's our massive meatloaf. It's going into a 350° oven for 30 minutes. We're going to make up the glaze while it's in the oven. For the glaze, I have 3/4 of a cup of ketchup, 2 and 1/2 tbsps packed brown sugar, 2 tsps yellow mustard, and worsher sauce. I'm going to mix this together and just pop it in the fridge till the meatloaf is ready. The meatloaf is out of the oven after 30 minutes. I'm going to go ahead and glaze it, put it back in the oven for another 40 or until it's cooked all the way through. Going back in for 40 minutes. The meatloaf is out of the oven. It smells amazing. We're going to let it sit for about 10 minutes. I have the mashed potatoes warming up. So, here is dinner. It smells so good. Meatloaf and mashed potatoes. I'll have the original recipe down below for you. So, for dessert tonight, we're going to have one of the Light and Fit pumpkin pie yogurts that we grabbed at Walmart this morning. These are one of my very favorite. And then just to get a crunch up the protein, I have Catalina Crunch. So, I'm going to put a full serving so that I get the 11 gram of protein on top of the pumpkin yogurt. And that's going to be my dessert. Thank you guys so much for hanging out with us, shopping, decorating for Halloween, and I'll see you in the next one. Bye. [music]