Weight Watchers Weigh-In #3

This week, I gained two lbs.

So, I've lost 3 lbs total. In 4 weeks. That's not very good!

Am I irritated? YES. But I am not going to be one of those people that just gets mad and says, "this doesn't work"! I know it works.... I just sucked at it this past week.

I think there were two or three days where I didn't track every single meal. After doing some reading and talking to friends at work who are also doing WW, I learned the importance of tracking BEFORE you even take a single bite of whatever you're about to eat. Otherwise, while it's great that you're being honest and tracking everything... you don't know if you've gone over until after you've done so.

I do awesome for breakfast and lunch - I eat both of those meals at work, so I portion out the exact serving size of whatever I'm eating, and don't have the option of eating anything more. Dinner and after dinner snacking are what get me.

Also, I didn't track one single activity point this week. I worked until 7 or so most of the weeknights, and had no desire to go to the gym when I got home or get up the next morning at 5:00 to go early.

I will be working on that this week.

Weight Watchers!!

In my last post, I said that I needed to start focusing on myself more, and what makes me happy - and healthy.

SO. After much debating, I joined Weight Watchers Online. My mom and I have joined WW together in the past, and I never had much success. We did it the traditional way - I'm not sure if the online tools even existed yet... and I remember feeling like tracking points was way too much work and I always forgot to do it. But that was when you had to look them up in a book, OR, add up everything yourself and do a little math equation when looking at the food label. Now that EVERYTHING is online.... it's so much easier! I also love that when I'm eating breakfast and/or lunch at work - or wherever - , I can use the app on my phone to track my points. That was the biggest problem before, remembering to come home at night and put in all of my points for the day. I am LOVING being able to use the WW App on my phone to add my points to my tracker while I'm eating my lunch at work.

I want to blog weekly about my progress. I really think it will help keep me even more accountable. I really need to put things in place for myself to make sure I don't stray from the plan too much. I've never been able to commit to any kind of weight loss plan for longer than a month or so. I owe it to myself to do better than that! 

My regular post day will be Thursdays, but I'm 2 weeks behind so I thought I'd do a quick post now, and post again in a couple of days.

I am in my third week. My weigh in days are Thursdays, so I've weighed twice so far. This past Thursday, I was down FIVE POUNDS! I lost 4lbs in the first week, and 1 the second.


This week, I'm nervous that I'll have stayed the same, or possibly gained a few. I went WAY over my points this weekend - we had a birthday dinner for my dad at my parents' house. I knew that I would be going over, but figured it wouldn't be too bad. WW gives you a certain amount of "extra" points that you can use however you want - either spread them out over the week, or use them for a big splurge.


Uhh... FYI - Village Inn french silk pie has 22+ points...................... in case anyone was wondering.


I totally should have known better than to even take one single bite! Because once I did - there was no turning back.


I really need to work on this will power thing....