Weigh in Saturday, July 14th

Yep, it's weigh-in Saturday!  If you didn't hear that with the booming echo in the background, read it again and hear the echo please.:)  You know, like those great commercials:)  Sorry, I am way too tired and the day has been way to long.

Moving on..........

On weigh-in Saturday I want to share with you and I hope you are wanting to read my results.  I went to my WW meeting this morning.  My friend Pattie couldn't make it.  Bryan and I went to the earlier meeting.  We met a couple of friends there that started coming last week.  They are a married couple that we are very good friends with.  We spend a lot of time with them so it's really cool to have all 4 of us counting our WW PointsPlus Values these days.  We had a very busy day ahead of us so going to the earlier meeting was a good idea too.

I am pleased to tell you that I lost 1.8 pounds this week.  I honestly didn't expect to lose so much.  It's not that I didn't do well, it's just that I didn't feel any weight fall off this week.  I felt like my body looked just like it did last week so I thought I would see a very small loss or stay the same.  I also felt quiet satisfied most of the week. I was rarely hungry.  After years of following WW I am still getting used to the idea that I don't have to be hungry to lose weight.  The PointsPlus Plan has made that more feasible than ever. I was so excited to see that much of a loss on the scale.

This has given me some things to think about.  First of all, how exciting is it that I can lose weight without feeling hungry all week!?  Very exciting.  I love that I don't have to feel deprived.  In fact, to spill the beans a bit, last week we brought some leftover, homemade ice cream sandwiches home from a lunch at church.  They were delicious, they were homemade and they were in my freezer.  Ice cream is my most favorite treat.  The cookies were homemade.  I think the ice cream was purchased but when they were put together in a sandwich, they were yummy.  I didn't know the recipe so I couldn't know the exact points but since I use etools I looked up ice cream sandwich and found one for 13 PointsPlus Values that I decided would probably be a good fit.  I ate one every day last week!  They were delicious and worth every point.  They were my treat each day.  I never felt deprived.  I just counted my points, tracked my food, stayed to my points target and lost weight.  Wahoo!

The second thing to think about is what I should do with my Daily PointsPlus Target.  I have been taking one point away from my daily target each week for the past several weeks.  I have been doing this because I am no longer nursing but still using some of my nursing points.  I had come to a bit of a standstill with my weight loss so I needed to shake things up by lowering my target.  Apparently it worked.  I had decided before going today that I should take away another point this week, but now that I lost 1.8 pounds it would appear that my daily target worked just fine as is.  Even though it worked well I am going to experiment further.  I am going to take away another point from my daily target.  If I lose more than 2 pounds this week then I know that I need to stop taking points away.  If I lose less than 2 pounds I will either leave it the same or take another one away.  My fear is that I wont take away a point and then wont see a loss next week.  I have been working too hard lately and I know that I would be disappointed if I didn't see a loss next week. I hope this all makes sense to you.


It was a very long and tiring day.  I had a hard time with my eating today.  You would think that with such a great loss that I would be motivated to keep things together but I ate a bit too much.  It's nothing to worry over. It's nothing that I cannot get control of.  I didn't use all of my Weekly Points but I used too many of them.  As I explained to you a few weeks ago, I like to split them up evenly throughout the week instead of using them all at one time.


I am planning on blogging every day this week.  After my day today I have decided that I need the accountability this week.  So check back each day to see what my mind is thinking about.  Boy that could be scary!!  If I miss a day, it's solely due to craziness of life but I am truly going to try my best to blog every day this week.


Have a great day and I'll see you tomorrow,
Corinna


"I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is our spiritual worship.  Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God - what is good and acceptable and perfect." -Romans 12:1-2