Week 4 of WW and I'm up.
I'm up this week by 1.8 but I followed by plan and stayed within my points range so I did well. And I'm honestly a little disappointed because I was hoping for a 1lb drop so I could get my 10lb sticker. Breathe.
I've been through this before. I know that this is a pattern for me and that no matter what I've done during the week I can easily gain due to my TOM (which is all screwed up right now) or stress. I just keep drinking my water and eventually it falls off.
I also know that my old pattern is to be so very frusterated with a gain that I eat off plan and I'm commiting right now not to do that. You all are my witnesses!
Last night I pulled out the jar of tobasco flavored dill pickles - god how I love those things! I can eat the serving of 3 each and be totally satisfied. Probably because my mouth is burning and I'm distracted for awhile. Yeah - it will add to the water weight gain right now, but it felt good and I'm over it already. It was a challenging night as my housemate, who is 18 years younger than I am and taller gets more points a day than I do and she wouldn't stop talking about food last night. I wanted to strangle her! Even in our meeting last night she was talking about Taco Bell (yuck) and Burger Kind (double yuck) and how many things she could get in her points range. I finally got up and walked away to look for a recipe in the book on the back table. Darned kids! LOL She did buy my Subway for dinner though after the meeting, so she's not so bad.
Today I'm meeting old friends from my HP days at TGIFridays for lunch. Printed the points reference from Dotti's page (you all know this, right? www.dwlz.com) to bring with me so I stay on track. My goal this week is to NOT use any of my 35 weekly party points. I should be able to do this with no problem as the one gathering I'm going to this weekend is at the home of a friend who is doing Atkins so there will be no carbs around to snack on.
My new favorite thing is the Weight Watchers French Vanilla shake mix. 1 point when you mix with cold water, 2 pts if you mix with 8 oz ff milk. But my FAV thing to do is mix it with the WW 2pt chocolate mint snack bar, milk and ice to make a vanilla mint milkshake. YUM and only 4 pts!
Time to head off to lunch. Less excited about the food but very excited about seeing my friends.
Happy Thursday everyone!