Making it happen
I got a little bit of re-motivation when I realized how close I am to being outside of the 170's! And after that, I'm so close to no longer being obese! I have 13 pounds to lose until by BMI says I am only "slightly overweight," and that is so exciting!
I've done pretty well this past week. Wednesday was the day I got really strict about following points. No more excuses. It's just been hard with moving twice in the past month... last Friday-Sunday I was visiting family and did not eat well at all, but I ate what was given to me, so I couldn't control everything (think doughnuts, Mexican, pizza, pancakes and bacon...). Then Monday I started my new job. I was taken out to eat at a non-chain restaurant for lunch, so I got a turkey croissant sandwich and a side salad. Not too bad I guess, but there's no telling how much butter, etc. was hidden in that sandwich. And the next day I went out to a Mexican restaurant with a few girls in my department.
Luckily, I've found a couple of girls who are doing Weight Watchers off and on, so when we went out to eat for lunch Friday, we went to Panera Bread. They have some pretty healthy options, so that was good. And I met one girl at Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner Thursday night, and I was good and ordered the 6-piece naked tender appetizer. I think I counted it as 10 points, but there's really no way to tell since BWW doesn't give out nutrional info (I know it's grilled chicken, but I'm a little paranoid they use oil on the naked tenders. There's no way to tell for sure). Another girl is leaving the department, so we're going out to eat next Wednesday and she chose Applebee's b/c of the WW menu. So I'll be trying the cajun lime tilapia for 6 points, hopefully it's good!
Again, living on my own, buying my own food and remaining accountable for that is great for my diet. Gotta say, though... the tofu shirataki noodles are NOT what I expected. They were horrible. I couldn't eat it. I couldn't get it down... I made a tuna noodle casserole and didn't want to throw the whole thing out, so I figured I'd freeze it and maybe mom would eat it when she visits (she'd eat leftovers if I had nothing else) But I looked at it the next day, and apparantly you can't freeze it because all of the water was extracted from the noodles... so nasty. What a waste!
But Hungry Girl has a recipe for chicken pot pie that is AMAZING! It's so good!
On the exercise front... I have not gotten my butt to the apartment's gym yet. I think I'm too afraid of other people? I don't know. I want to go when I know no one else is in there, it's a really small room with 3 or 4 machines. So we'll see.
Good news is that the company I work for has a Zumba instructor come Tuesdays and Thursdays. A few of the girls in the department do that and they said it's really fun, so I'll probably try that out. Another great thing is that the fees for the program are reimbursed through the company's health benefits. I'm not a dancer though, so we'll see how the dancing aerobics thing works for me... gotta do something, though, right? And it's supposed to be fun...