right… so, the thing about WW is that they have their own website for you to track activity and points consumed. so, i kinda have been using it instead of this. and guess what? it’s waaaaaay more effective. i’m down 7 pounds and one pants size for sure, almost another one probably next week. woooooooooo!
c u soon.
b
tomorrow’s the day. week #3 weigh in. was up last week. hoping to lose this week, but most likely will end up where i started. i stepped up the activity this week and was a bit more diligent about what i shoved in my face. we shall see. we shall see.
so, it’s been almost a week. the thing is that i have to use the weight watchers site to keep track of everything, which makes this space almost redundant. what i forgot was that i need this site to vent a little about the recording of the food and activity on the WW slow-ass site.
in a related story, i gained two pounds last week as evidenced by my tuesday night meeting. guess i recorded points incorrectly or i actually already ate less than my points requirement and should just go on the rachel zoe diet. the chick at the meeting was nice. she just weighed me and stuck the sticker in my booklet. didn’t say anything.
boo.
the meeting was weird too. it reminded me of college. the leader would ask questions that warranted a factual answer but was given pointless anecdotal drivel. also, this is horrible, but i weighed probably 80-150 pounds less than everyone in the room. so, there was that for the ol’ self esteem. SEE! HORRIBLE!
so, weigh in is on tuesday. i stuck to my points this week too (was on staycation as mentioned and gave myself a break from all things computer/email/blogs/etc), but i bet i didn’t lose anything. hopefully i didn’t gain either.
i did go to the gym everyday but wednesday hopefully that was burned calories in the bank.
so, i made it through my first week of weight watchers. i didn’t officially go over my point allowance and ended the week with a surplus of 9 extra flex points. i also earned 17 activity points, but couldn’t use them to swap for food points since it was my first week. but really, i’m sure i cheated. who the hell has the time to track all of this shit so precisely? i did my best to estimate and really overestimate things i ate that weren’t brand name. my plan is to spend this week developing recipes we can eat (i say we because i do the cooking and the bf will literally eat anything i put in front of him and tell me how good it is because he’s nice like that) that i can measure exactly to get a sense of what eating my daily point value is really like.
i’m missing my workplace meeting today (staycation, baby!), but i’ll go to a local meeting (if they let me in) to weigh in.
i busted it for an hour at the gym today - four miles! 15 minutes spent running.
ultimate sadness. thought i was being healthy by eating rice, black beans, grilled veggies and tomatoes. NOT SO! i’ve done used all my flex points up in one go. GREAT!! so, i’ll say 15 points. DAMN!
rolled into work at 11 this morning. awesome. was supposed to have day off, so 11 was a good compromise.
ate one whole egg, plus two egg whites scrambled = 2.5
non-fat latte from starbucks = they say 3 points, i find this hard to believe. what’s fat in it? coffee is water… and non-fat milk has no fat and few calories. hmm.
lunch 10/1 - chargrilled chicken sandwich and fries from chick-fil-a = 13 points (holy fuck!)
predinner 15 minutes walk (to dinner)
dinner was whole wheat pasta w/mushroom, artichoke hearts, lemon garlic olive oil, cheese bread w/marinara = 1,000,000 points. i used the ww tracker and estimated 12. bad day.
post dinner walk 30 minutes (around OU campus and home)
Ok, actually, I only get 21 points. Boo. The bottom is 18. So, if I lose any weight this time, from then on I’d only get 18. Boo.
Right, so that left me with 13 remaining points last night, which I promptly blew, and then some, most likely, at Big Truck Taco. Dinner meeting with my dad.
1 steak taco al carbon in a corn tortilla
1/4 cup refried beans
chips and 1/2 guacamole (ZING! SHIT!)
iced tea
And then I walked the dog, VERY briskly for about 45 minutes.
22 points daily
1 bowl of egg drop soup = 2
1 egg roll = 4
1 container oikos greek yogurt = 2
TOTAL: 8
Left for the day: 14
Like I said, it’s been a rough couple of months. I had one of those headaches that threatens both vomit and blindness by about 3 this afternoon. Don’t know if it’s the stress or lack of caffeine (still DC free!), but it was brutal. Is brutal. So, I did 35 on the treadmill, only 5 running.
After the 30 minute commute home and much hemming and hawing over the lack of easily prepared foods in the house, the BF and I went to Chick-Fil-A for dinner. At like 9pm. AWESOME!!! Actually, I had the chargrilled chicken sandwich at only 3 grams of fat and 200 something calories! I don’t know what the points are on that, but the caloric value was in range. So, kudos me.
It was delicious! I don’t know if I’ll ever go back to the fried stuff again.
