Weight: 230
Yesterday was very busy, but I did really good. I am trying to increase the amount of fruits and veggies I eat, and also start cooking more of my own food now that I am adjusted to a healthier portion size. We bought some 8 inch plates which I highly recommend. The bigger the plate, the more food you tend to want to put on it.
Oh - some other good news. I got an email from Continental yesterday and I have been upgraded to First Class for my 2 1/2 hour flight to Detroit on Sunday. Woohoo! I did a HUGE amount of flying last year, so I got bumped up from Silver Elite to Gold. Since then I have been upgraded on all of my 3 flights this year. This will be the 4th time I've flown 1st class, but the other 3 times the flights were only 45 minutes. So this will be my first time where they actually serve food. I noticed that my original booking said 'SNACK' and now my new one says 'MEAL'. So I guess only the first class section gets actual food? Don't know. Anyway, my friend tells me that it is normally a choice of a salad with either grilled shrimp or chicken and maybe a soup. I hope that's what it is. That will be easy on the points. I'm even going to look into points for a few different alcoholic beverages since I will have the points and don't have to drive. Depending on what the food is, I can probably still swing 2 drinks of some sort. Silly, but I'm really excited.
Anyway, here is my food journal for yesterday...
Week 3, Day 3 Points allowed: 28
Breakfast:
1 - 2 WW toast
2 - 2 Kraft FF singles
4 - 2 scrambled eggs
Lunch:
6 - WW dinner
1 - small orange
1 - WW yogurt
Dinner:
4 - chicken strips
3 - small white corn tortillas
1 - 2T FF Ranch
0 - salad
Snacks:
2 - 15 tiny twist pretzels
4 - yogurt parfait (WW yogurt, 1/2 cup canteloupe, 12 lite vanilla wafers crumbs)
Total Points: 29 (I realized that I lost count b/c I forgot to write down my dressing last night)
Water: 64+oz
Activity: 45 minute brisk walk in park - very hilly
Mini Goal - One-derland
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Friday, February 15, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Week 3, Day 2 Guess the 230 is gonna stick!
Weight this morning: 230 again. Guess it's going to stick. If I have that a few more days, I will mark that off of my mini goal list.
Things still going well. Work has been really busy. Oh yeah, they brought in breakfast tacos yesterday and came and handed me one. Again, my first reaction was to decline (I'm on a diet right?). Then I thought about it. It was about 9:00 AM and I was a little hungry and I had a low point lunch and a lot of points to use up. So I looked it up and found it was 5 points. So I took it and enjoyed every bite. Later when there were still some in the bag in the kitchen, I had no urge to grab another one and scarf it down like I would have in the past. Eating the taco took the power away from the other ones. I think I'm getting this!
Here's my menu from yesterday:
Breakfast:
4 - 2 eggs scrambles
1 - 1 lite Laughing Cow cheese wedge
1 - 2 WW toast
Lunch:
5 - WW dinner
0 - green beans
Dinner:
6 - chicken strips
0 - salad
1 - 2 T ff Ranch
2 - low fat burrito tortilla
Snacks:
5 - small potato and egg taco
1 - WW yogurt
2 - 1 cup sugarfree/fat free ice cream
Total: 28 points
Water: 64 oz usually I go over by more - was really busy, but I'll do better today
Activity: 30+ minute brisk walk in park while it was getting really dark!
Things still going well. Work has been really busy. Oh yeah, they brought in breakfast tacos yesterday and came and handed me one. Again, my first reaction was to decline (I'm on a diet right?). Then I thought about it. It was about 9:00 AM and I was a little hungry and I had a low point lunch and a lot of points to use up. So I looked it up and found it was 5 points. So I took it and enjoyed every bite. Later when there were still some in the bag in the kitchen, I had no urge to grab another one and scarf it down like I would have in the past. Eating the taco took the power away from the other ones. I think I'm getting this!
Here's my menu from yesterday:
Breakfast:
4 - 2 eggs scrambles
1 - 1 lite Laughing Cow cheese wedge
1 - 2 WW toast
Lunch:
5 - WW dinner
0 - green beans
Dinner:
6 - chicken strips
0 - salad
1 - 2 T ff Ranch
2 - low fat burrito tortilla
Snacks:
5 - small potato and egg taco
1 - WW yogurt
2 - 1 cup sugarfree/fat free ice cream
Total: 28 points
Water: 64 oz usually I go over by more - was really busy, but I'll do better today
Activity: 30+ minute brisk walk in park while it was getting really dark!
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
28 points is a lot of food
Weight: 230 (Where was that yesterday during my 'official' weigh in!)
This morning I'm back down to 230. That's what was so frustrating about yesterday. I KNOW that I really weighed 230 yesterday, but I'm only logging my weight on Tuesday mornings. Oh well. As long as I start going down from there, who cares really?
Monday was my first day on the 28 points that I just found out I should be eating based on my current weight. I never would have thought that I would say 28 points is a lot of food, but I ate, I snacked, and I still ended up shoving down 2 Kashi oatmeal & chocolate cookies at 9PM just to make the 28 points. I was too full to try and eat 4 points worth of fruit. I'm going to have to plan better. I spend my points rather frugally - trying to get the most for the least, so having 28 it's hard to eat that much. It feels like all I'm doing is eating. I guess I need to start cooking my lunch and having a good sized chicken breast or something. Anyway, here's my journal for Monday.
Week 3, Day 1 Points Allowed: 28
Breakfast:
1 - 2 slices of WW bread
1 - lite Laughing Cow wedge
4 - 2 eggs scrambled in ff cooking spray
Lunch:
4 - Healthy Choice chicken w/roasted potatoes, veggies, AND cherry crisp
1 - salad with 2 T lite Ranch dressing
Dinner:
5 - chicken tenders cooked in ff cooking spray
3 - green beans with potatoes
2- low fat burrito tortilla
0 - lettuce
Snacks:
1 - WW yogurt
1 - banana
1 - WW snack cake
4 - 2 Kashi oatmeal & chocolate chip chewy cookies
Total points: 28
Water: 64+ oz
Activity: Brisk walk in park, about 30-40 minutes
See - isn't that just a ton of food? Fat girl in my head kept screaming at me that I shouldn't be eating all that because I'll gain. Funny how she used to always tell me to eat, eat, eat. Or not to bother because there's no way I could possibly hang in long enough to lose 100 pounds. Now I think I've got her running (waddling) scared because she's changed her tactics. Instead of trying to make me eat high point foods, she's trying to get me to cut my points down to about 20 to 'make sure I lose, and make it happen faster because we can't wait all year to lose this weight'. I guess she's resorting to that because WW takes all the power away from her old tactic by not making you deprive yourself. No food is taboo. First of all, there are healthier alternatives readily available if you want. But, if what you want is something from taco bell, cake, a hamburger, etc... that's perfectly ok. You just have to account for it. I'm sure there will come a day when I'm dying for taco bell. When that day comes, I'll go to the Taco Bell nutrition information and calculate the points for the things I want. As long as I stay at 28 points, I can have it. That's what makes this work so well for me. The power has been taken away from all of those things because they're no longer 'forbidden'.
Feeling more confident every day. Onward!
This morning I'm back down to 230. That's what was so frustrating about yesterday. I KNOW that I really weighed 230 yesterday, but I'm only logging my weight on Tuesday mornings. Oh well. As long as I start going down from there, who cares really?
Monday was my first day on the 28 points that I just found out I should be eating based on my current weight. I never would have thought that I would say 28 points is a lot of food, but I ate, I snacked, and I still ended up shoving down 2 Kashi oatmeal & chocolate cookies at 9PM just to make the 28 points. I was too full to try and eat 4 points worth of fruit. I'm going to have to plan better. I spend my points rather frugally - trying to get the most for the least, so having 28 it's hard to eat that much. It feels like all I'm doing is eating. I guess I need to start cooking my lunch and having a good sized chicken breast or something. Anyway, here's my journal for Monday.
Week 3, Day 1 Points Allowed: 28
Breakfast:
1 - 2 slices of WW bread
1 - lite Laughing Cow wedge
4 - 2 eggs scrambled in ff cooking spray
Lunch:
4 - Healthy Choice chicken w/roasted potatoes, veggies, AND cherry crisp
1 - salad with 2 T lite Ranch dressing
Dinner:
5 - chicken tenders cooked in ff cooking spray
3 - green beans with potatoes
2- low fat burrito tortilla
0 - lettuce
Snacks:
1 - WW yogurt
1 - banana
1 - WW snack cake
4 - 2 Kashi oatmeal & chocolate chip chewy cookies
Total points: 28
Water: 64+ oz
Activity: Brisk walk in park, about 30-40 minutes
See - isn't that just a ton of food? Fat girl in my head kept screaming at me that I shouldn't be eating all that because I'll gain. Funny how she used to always tell me to eat, eat, eat. Or not to bother because there's no way I could possibly hang in long enough to lose 100 pounds. Now I think I've got her running (waddling) scared because she's changed her tactics. Instead of trying to make me eat high point foods, she's trying to get me to cut my points down to about 20 to 'make sure I lose, and make it happen faster because we can't wait all year to lose this weight'. I guess she's resorting to that because WW takes all the power away from her old tactic by not making you deprive yourself. No food is taboo. First of all, there are healthier alternatives readily available if you want. But, if what you want is something from taco bell, cake, a hamburger, etc... that's perfectly ok. You just have to account for it. I'm sure there will come a day when I'm dying for taco bell. When that day comes, I'll go to the Taco Bell nutrition information and calculate the points for the things I want. As long as I stay at 28 points, I can have it. That's what makes this work so well for me. The power has been taken away from all of those things because they're no longer 'forbidden'.
Feeling more confident every day. Onward!
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