Hangry

Me, yesterday

First, the good news: I weighed in on Saturday and lost 4.4 pounds!  Wow!  It’s amazing how much impact giving up regular soda has.  I was thrilled and am aiming for a 2 pound loss this week.

Yesterday was a struggle and a half.  I simply woke up with the overwhelming urge to eat, eat, eat, all day long.  Junk food, sweets, candy, and soda, that’s all I wanted!  I fought to stick to my Weight Watchers points.  During my lunch, I picked up a candy bar, hoping it would kill the cravings.  Even at 9 points, I knew I could stay under points if I stayed on track the rest of the day.

Well, that didn’t happen.  As soon as I got home, I opened the fridge and munched on some leftovers that I knew would put me over my WW points for the day, but I had been fighting the munchies all day and couldn’t hack it anymore.

It could have been much worse.  I stopped there and made myself go work out, an hour-long weight training workout, then logged my food for the evening and made myself stop eating.  I tapped into my weekly points by about 10 points, and I am still under my weekly points, but I really try not to use those. 

I was disappointed in myself for going over my daily points, but also relieved I slammed on the brakes and exercised too.  I could easily have gone off the chain, devoured all the food in the house, and sat on my butt on the couch, but I didn’t.  So that’s a step forward.  I know yesterday could have been far, far worse!

Today I’m tracking my points very carefully, and I won’t go over my daily points the rest of the week. I still want a good weigh-in on Saturday!

Quest Meal Bars…Yuck!

This morning I tried one of the Quest meal bars that someone on the Weight Watchers site recommended, and I can give you a one-word review to save you time: BLECH!  I took one bite, made a face, chewed a few times, made more faces, wondered how anyone on earth could possibly eat these things, and threw it away.  Saved me points, all right…by not being edible!   It was like chewing mixed concrete that hadn’t set yet.  The wrapper said “Cookies & Cream”, but there is no reality or universe where that remotely tasted like cookies and cream.

There you go, a professional and thoughtful product review, just one of the many services I offer to you, ha ha.

Yesterday, especially last night, I had a lot of junk food cravings.  Luckily I like sweets, and my fiance likes salty snacks, so all I could find in the house were potato chips and other things I don’t like.  I made myself leave the kitchen and ignore the ice cream in the freezer.  I was so close to being under my WW points for another day, and I didn’t want to blow it.

I’m aiming for at least a 2 pound loss this week.  I need to get consistent, stop this two steps forward, a thousand steps back dance that I’ve been doing for so long.  I want to commit to doing this right and getting the results I want.

It’s Working!

I’m so glad I joined Weight Watchers and have taken the time to learn about the points and make adjustments to what I’m eating.  I weighed in on Saturday to a 2.6 loss!  Yessssss!  I’m still re-losing weight I gained the previous weeks, but I feel much more motivated than I have in a long time.

Over the weekend, I bought fruit, Greek yogurt, and other food to keep under my WW points.  I also bought a different kind of meal bar someone suggested that has less points than the ones I always bought.  I’m determined to stick to it this week and stay under my points each day.

Even better, the kids were excited to pick out healthier snacks too.  They went to the store with us and asked for apples, celery with peanut butter, things like that.  Of course they still want chips too, but it was wonderful to see better habits rubbing off on them.

On a far less exuberant note: Friday evening, we had the dubious delight of seeing Psycho, and I was struck by terrible she looked.  She has gained weight and was dressed like she just stumbled out of a flea market bin.  She was prancing around, so proud of herself, desperate for my fiance to look at her, and I had to wonder just what psychological disorder she suffers from, because this isn’t the first time she has acted so bizarre.  The kids’ grades have been falling, and it’s clear there’s not much, if any, supervision at their other home.  I have always worried about them, but now I’m downright scared for them.

It’s hard to stay focused on my weight loss journey with so much drama and worry.  It’s like we are forced to leave the kids in the care of an untreated mental patient and just hope they survive the next two weeks before they come back home to us.

Almost Weigh In Day

Tomorrow is weigh in day!  I haven’t worked out as many days this week as I would have liked, but more than the week before, and I even conquered 30 minutes of Les Mills Combat last night (very, very sweaty!)  I am hopeful for a good weigh in this weekend.

I’ve been logging my food on the Weight Watchers app, and I definitely have to make some adjustments.  I’ve already mentioned that soda uses a  LOT of points, so I need to cut way back on that, which will be a good thing.  But some things I eat a lot of, like my meal bars for breakfast, surprised me by being so many points.  I need to find a new, quick, no-cook, take-to-work breakfast.

I surprised myself by eating more grapes, carrots, watermelon, blackberries (with Cool Whip, oh yeah!) this past week.  I never eat fruit or vegetables, but since they are zero points, I’ve already learned to pack those with my lunch or gnaw on them for snacks so I don’t rack up points.

All in all, I’m really glad I joined.  I’m still surprised that there aren’t more support features on the Weight Watchers app, like message boards or groups or challenges, but my weekly group is great.  Seeing them get rewards and applause for 5 pounds lost, or 50, is motivating because I want to be in that position someday, being recognized for my hard work and weight loss.

Thank you to everyone who is now following me on the app!  I have returned the favor and am following you too.  I don’t post much on there yet, but hopefully soon I will have milestones and weight loss and victories to brag about 🙂

Okay…Starting TODAY!

I had the best intentions of officially starting my Weight Watchers tracking on Friday, but, well…it was Friday, the weekend was right there, and isn’t there a federal law to always start diets on Mondays?

I still managed to have a 2 pound loss at Saturday’s weigh-in, but I give full credit to the manual labor I had to do in the yard.  I definitely sweat it out!  I normally don’t count yard work as my workout, but four hours and a sore back later, I decided that most certainly counted.

I’ve logged my breakfast and my lunch today on WW.  If anyone wants to follow each other on the Connect feature, my username is SuperStepMom6.  Let me know if you do, so I can follow you too!

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