Well, imagine my surprise when I stepped on the scale at WW and found not only had I lost but I lost a significant amount for one week! OK, I had help from a week long migraine that prevented me from enjoying life, let alone food!
As the weeks pass and the weight comes off I'm finding it's getting easier to make food choices. I look at the nutritional value on labels and I know approximately how many points I'm dealing with per serving. I base my choices on a few key questions, first, how hungry am I will I be satisfied with one serving? Am I willing to sacrifice points to satisfy a craving? And if I can then will a half a serving do the trick? Nine times out of ten yes half will do, or even less I find.
Example, I love chips, all kinds, it's the salt I'm sure but they are my weakness. Yesterday there was a bag of All Dressed sitting on the kitchen table that someone in the house opened. Oh believe me I seriously considered blowing ALL my points and eating the entire bag! Then I stopped myself, thought about all the work and success I've had and took one decent sized chip put the bag down and walked away. Will power is not really something I lack apparently. That one chip however tasted great!
In my moments of weakness I find myself recalling exactly why I'm back at Weight Watchers. It took several years to put the pounds on, and in five short weeks I've dropped two sizes! Why would I risk a set back for momentary satisfaction when I know the real satisfaction will be fitting in my "skinny" clothes again? My ultimate goal once I'm where I want to be is to keep it off for good. I know it's possible I know what I did to gain it back and I know I have the will power to commit to keeping it off.
One of my co-workers just returned from a trip to Hawaii and with him he brought chocolate covered Macadamia nuts. Luckily I'm not a huge fan of chocolate and when he offered I said "no thanks" and walked right past. Even now writing about it I have no remorse for not accepting just one little chocolate, after all it would only be maybe one or two points, what I found more satisfying than the taste I passed up is the fact that I can pass it up and not have regret.
Weight Watchers Points + means you CAN eat a whole box of chocolates if you want but you have to be sure to stick to the points you have left to maintain your weight loss. I've used at most maybe three out of the five weeks two to three of my +points. I try to use up all my daily points but was finding that a challenge, now that I'm down to 28 daily points it's been a little easier to use them. If I have points left at the end of the day, I treat myself to whatever will use them up. It's not like there's a lot, maybe two or three at most. But that's enough for 3,2,1 cake and that's perfect.
So onto week 6 and maybe another two pounds? That would be nice.
Tammy.
