Just a quick Monday morning check-in. I weighed in this morning… 277.6! I’m now down 20 pounds since I first started all this. I should be more excited, but I’m just too tired from staying up way too late last night to really celebrate.
I was a little tentative stepping on the scale this morning. I started my period over the weekend which normally means mucho water retention for me. However, I had noticed that leading up to and during the start of my leetle monthly “friend” I had no bloating (I even have *gasp* ankles) for the first time in years. That in itself is worth everything I’m doing.
Other things I’ve noticed this past week – a few of my dress trousers are actually too big to wear at all (as in I can pull them down to go to the bathroom without unzipping them) and two pair of pants that are normally tight fit rather well. I even wore my “skinny” jeans the day before I started my period! And lastly, shoes that haven’t fit in forever fit again. I bought a pair of strappy sandals over the weekend that weren’t wide width. Woo-hoo!
My goal for last week was, “Eat no more than 10 of my extra weekly points and increase my activity points from 19 to 20.”
Extra weekly points: I used 9.5 of my extra points last week – mostly from a trip to the bar Friday night where I drank a few too many Guinnesses. But I guess that’s why you have the extra points, right? I was also able to eat one McDonalds cheeseburger, a small fry, Starbucks (non-fat), sushi and a greek salad from Pegasus without totally blowing it. I have to give kudos to this Weight Watchers thing… I’m able to eat a lot of what I always did, just in smaller (much smaller) or healthier (much healthier) portions and still lose weight.
Activity points: I increased my activity points to 22 this week. Mainly through walking the dog extra long in the morning or at night. I did the geriatric social club three times last week, including Saturday morning following my night of Guinnesses. That was a particularly proud accomplishment as all I really wanted to do was sleep, but I knew I had to get that third work out in for the week.
Goal for this week, keep steady with the extra food points – eating no more than 10 – and increase my activity to 25 points.
