Joined Weight Watchers, Again!!

[Marilyn]

I couldn't believe it, but I didn't eat all my 18 points yesterday. I ate plenty of foods to stay satisfied, but did not reach my points. Today will not be so easy. I have a trade show and dinner will be bar-b-que with all the trimmings. I'll just have to stick to a small portion of meat, a few pinto beans, and some green beans or something. Will have to pass on the dirty rice, potatoe salad, cole slaw, hot potatoe salad, macarroni salad, sausage, all the good stuff. I love really good bar-b-qued brisket. It will be tough to hold back and of course, it's served buffet style. I'll be weighing in on Thursday evening. Will let you know if progress is being made. Next Friday, the 24th, I'll be seeing some of the bigger bosses in our company. Hope to be a little slimmer by then.

[judy]

Good luck with the WW! I think it's the best way to lose weight.

I'm 5'1'' and it does become annoying. I'm allowed 18 points too, but, to be honest, I don't want to be that limited. I've been bad about dinner and chips.
When I stop doing that, I'll go back onto my own WW.

Keep us posted.

[Marilyn]

I was really good last night with the bar-b-que. I had about 3 oz of brisket and tried to pick very lean pieces. About a 1/4 cup of cole slaw, and about 1/2 cup of pinto beans. People were asking if that was all I was going to eat. I could have had more cole slaw if I had realized that cabbage is zero points, and this slaw had a watery dressing, so there was not much mayonnaise on the amount of slaw that I had. 1 tsp real Mayo=1 pt. When I got home I had one 2 pt. WW ice cream bar. So all in all had 19 points yesterday, one over my 18, but on the Flex Plan there are 35 descressionary points to use throughout the week, so I used one of those. If I can find time to exercise, that will give me some points credit, but this week is just too busy. I'm anxious to weigh in on Thursday and see if anything is happening.

[jrsygal37]

I'm doing Weight Watchers, well most of the time. I really do need to be more dilagent with watching my points. I'm 41 (ouch) and finding it very hard to not eat junk. My avatar is what I was (taken about a year and a half - 2 yrs ago)but for a variety of reasons I've gained about 30 lbs. I just went back to work. I was a stay at home mom for the past 15 years. Before that a legal secretary/paralegal. I could not stand the thought of sitting behind a desk again and quite honestly wanted a job where I'd be on the move - just so I would lose weight. I ended up taking a part time job at the Shop Rite Deli. It's non stop so the time goes by quickly and I'm also getting a load of excersice running back and forth, lifting the meats etc. I've been working about a month now - absolutely love it. I work nights usually 3-10 and I'm down 8 lbs. I should have done this a long time ago. I feel so good getting out again. Elaine

[Marilyn]

Elaine, so glad this is working for you. My job is mostly sitting behind a desk with a computer and phone or driving here and there to meet with people. Not much exercise to it. Sometimes if a customer needs something and I can deliver it while I'm out, I'll make a delivery, but even then it's lifting a box from my truck and carrying it a short distance to put is on t a counter. Not much exercise there.

Tonight was my first weigh-in after joining, and I was pleasantly surprised that I had lost 6 lbs!!!! Got a star my first week. Not sure the next will be so easy. I'm trying to lose about 26 lbs, so we'll see how it goes.

Tomorrow I'm playing in a golf tournament, but we ride in carts, don't walk the course, so all I do is get in and out of a cart and swing a club. Not a whole lot to doing that, but it's surprising how tiring it can be. Of course, I'll be entertaining customers, and I think some of the getting tired is the stress of trying to be pleasant and fun to be around for 5 to 6 hours.

[judy]

It's 6 points/hour for entertaining clients!

[Marilyn]

Originally Posted by judy

It's 6 points/hour for entertaining clients!

LOL, Judy, I wish. We did have an amazing day!!! Got up this morning at 5:15 a.m. which is very early for me. I was at the Country Club by 7 a.m., right around daybreak, and we tee'd off just after 8 a.m. It was a little overcast and cool this morning. So I was wishing I had a light jacket. It was a truly beautiful day. The guys on my team were all very nice and everyone got along very well. We did okay, 9 under par. No prizes for us, but we had a great time. Finished the game around 1:15 p.m. and had burgers for lunch. I was good just meat, bun and vegetables with a little mustard (10 pts total).

When I was leaving the house, I was wondering what I was thinking when I decided to golf so early. Usually I pick the early afternoon tee-off times. AFter lunch I went home for a while and ran an errand with hubby then took a shower and went back to the Country Club. I sat around the rest of the afternoon visiting with customers who had stayed around, too. At around 6:15 p.m. the folks who played the afternoon flight began to return to the clubhouse, so..... I had a nice round of golf, a relaxing afternoon and early evening, and got to spend some quality time getting to know some of my very important customers better in a relaxing environment and I didn't blow my diet. I'm ending the day with 19 pts. That's one over my allowance, but I just took one point from the pool of 35 discressionary for the week.

Not to shabby, if I do say so myself.