As Valentines Day is on the way...

Start with a small green salad topped with olive oil and lemon. Main course: grilled chicken with lots of seasoning, braised collard greens (if you can work in a 1/2 slice of bacon for calorie count, the taste will be anything but boring). Finish with a small fruit "ice cream" (no cream, no added sugar, basicly softly frozen pureed naturally sweet fruit.)

Unfortunately, I do not have the nutritional breakdown for this, but it could be run through the recipe builder to get an idea.

Filets Mignons with Cranberry-Orange Sauce

Weight Watchers Recipe

8PointsPlus Value
Prep time: 7 min
Cook time: 22 min
Other time: 0 min
Serves: 2
This speedy recipe with a sweet-tart cranberry and orange sauce just serves two.
Recipe

Ingredients
1/2 pound(s) uncooked lean and trimmed beef filet mignon
1/2 tsp black pepper, freshly ground
1/4 tsp table salt
2 tsp olive oil
1 small uncooked shallot(s), or 1⁄2 small red onion, minced
1 clove(s) (medium) garlic clove(s), minced
1/4 cup(s) unsweetened orange juice
1/4 cup(s) red wine, or beef broth
3 Tbsp dried cranberries
Instructions
Pat the filets dry with paper towels; sprinkle both sides with the pepper and salt. Heat 1 teaspoon of the oil in a medium heavy skillet over medium-high heat until very hot. Add the filets and cook until well browned, about 4 minutes.

Heat 1 teaspoon of the oil in a medium heavy skillet over medium-high heat until very hot.

Add the filets and cook until well browned, about 4 minutes.

Turn and cook until the center is slightly less done than you'd like, 2 – 3 minutes for medium rare (the meat will continue to cook when you take it off the heat).

Transfer to a plate and loosely cover with foil.

Heat the remaining 1 teaspoon oil in the same skillet. Add the shallot and garlic; cook, stirring frequently, until softened, 2 – 3 minutes. Add the orange juice, wine, and cranberries; bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer, stirring constantly, until thickened, 2 – 3 minutes. Return the filets to the pan and cook, swirling to coat them with the sauce. Serve at once.

What about a broth-based fondue? They are delicious, they make for a wonderful evening meal / date because you spend so much time together at the table - lots of time for conversation. Prep time is minimal. You can fondue many different items (many of which can be low-cal, such as veg, shrimp). You can get beef or other meats in whichever quantity suits each of you, without either feeling like you're eating too little/too much.

The time it takes for cooking each piece automatically slows down your eating, so your body has a chance to register your fullness before you over-do things.

You can find or make low-cal dipping sauces as well.

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There are few days a year where it is nice to splurge or have a cheat day. As long as you are good leading up to and get back on track after I don't see why you cannot have the dinner you want. Just don't over do it. Even a doctor will tell you it's ok to have a cheat day, just don't make them too close together. Relax, otherwise you may be too focused on your lifestyle change and forget to love a little more tender.

Have your daily count be 1600 for the day instead of 1200. Make a compromise with yourself to enjoy the day without added stress.

We're having steak and Sprite.

We have a pretty disgusting case of baby fever, and I always tell him, before babies, we have to make sure we can afford to eat steak and Sprite several times a week for 9 months because I will crave it.

So we're going to have steak and Sprite.

And wine and chocolate.

Found this while I still had this screen open...

Fish is brilliant.

V-day is too fancy for chicken, but not fish.

And fish is low-cal.