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Found this recipe on the Weight Watcher site and used it as my new recipe of the week. It was really, really good.

Citrus-Beef Stir-Fry with Carrots

POINTS: 7

1 pound Beef, strip sirloin, trimmed, raw, cut into thin strips

1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce, divided

1/2 cup fresh orange juice

3 Tbsp unpacked light brown sugar

1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar

1 Tbsp orange zest

1/2 small tsp crushed red pepper flakes

2 tsp sesame oil

2 cup carrot(s), matchstick-cut

1 medium onion(s), cut into 8 wedges and separated

Place beef in a shallow dish; pour 2 tablespoons soy sauce over beef. Turn to coat completely. Let marinate 15 minutes in refrigerator.

Combine orange juice, sugar, 2 tablespoons soy sauce, vinegar, orange rind and red pepper in a small bowl. Stir with a whisk.

Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over high heat. Add beef and cook 6 minutes. Remove from heat and place on a serving platter; keep warm.Reduce heat to medium-high; add carrot and onion. Cook 7 minutes or until carrot is lightly browned and crisp-tender, stirring frequently. Increase heat to high; add beef and its juices and orange juice mixture. Cook 3 minutes or until slightly thickened. Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 cup).

Smoothie Recipe #2

Like Rootbeer floats? Me too!!!

1 cup skim milk
1 vanilla smoothie mix
Diet Rootbeer

Blend milk and mix in a blender. Pour mixture into an ice cube tray. Freeze.

Place frozen cubes in blender, slowly pour desired amount of root beer over cubes and blend. If you want a thinner smoothie, add more rootbeer. If you want a thicker one, well, it's too late now, you put too much in!! :o)

Don't keep frozen cubes in the ice cube tray for too long. If you can't use them up within a day or two, pop them out and put them in a freezer bag. Otherwise, they get ooky.

I Cheat

Let me start by saying this: Weight Watchers is an awesome program. I would recommend it to anyone who really wants to lose weight.

Now, let me tell you about my cheating.

1) I did not get fat eating fruit. I am not a big fruit eater and really hate having to use 2 points to eat a banana. So my cheat with fruit is this: Any fruit I eat is 1 point. When I put it in my journal, I use whatever serving size equals 1 point. I remember a former poster on the 100+ Board that lost all of her weight but never counted points for fruit. Of course I haven't seen her on there for a while. Maybe she got fat again by eating fruit.

2) Not sure that this is an actual cheat because there are differing schools of thought. I'm of the belief that yes indeed, potatoes are a vegetable. However, I only count potatoes as 1 serving. 1/2 cup of potatoes = 1 serving and 1 point. 3 cups of potatoes = 1 serving and 7.5 points

3) Lettuce, on the other hand, is indeed a vegetable. There is no argument there. But iceberg lettuce, my lettuce of choice, has no nutritional value at all. WW says that 1 cup of lettuce is a vegetable serving. I agree. However, 3 cups of lettuce in my world is also 1 vegetable serving.

Okay, not the worst cheats in the world and none involve brownies (darn it). But I feel better having confessed that.