PointsPlus

Well I gained 4 lbs in 2 weeks (the birthday celebratory weeks) and then lost almost a pound thanksgiving week (i made a pact with my ww buddy that we would loose SOMETHING over thanksgiving - I was so excited about my own loss, i don't know if she lost anything or not, I know I'm a bad friend)

And THEN comes the new PointsPlus plan.  I have been reading everyone's opinions like crazy, and, as I knew it would, the plan is getting extremely mixed reviews.  The two biggest complaints I don't understand

1) People are struggling trying to eat all their points.  I don't know about everyone else, but my leader emphasized that we absolutely should not eat our points if we are not hungry.  It's one of the new things about this plan.  Yesterday was the first day I actually ate all mine, and that's because I was having a sweet craving so I had a piece of cake, and probably counted way too much for it because I still don't have my head wrapped around how points are figured out, and it wasn't something that had the NI directly on it somewhere.

2) People are struggling staying within thier points.  I learned in the getting started session on monday that 29 is the least amount of points someone can have, and the way it's figured out now, everyone currently on weight watchers went up in points - most people significantly.  I went up 7 points myself (i know, i know, pointsplus, but what a mouthful that is, you know everyone is going to call it points anyway).  Not only that, but we get a whopping 14 more weekly points.  And people who just don't want to use those extra points - come on people, weight watchers didn't give us those to mercilessly taunt us.  I also feel like people who are starving after using thier 29 just aren't using them wisely.  I mean, 0 point fruit people.    I could understand when you could get down to 18 - that was sort of brutal.  But somehow I don't think the people who went from 18 to 29 are the ones complaining.

I'll admit, I'm struggling with taking of my old system hat off and putting the new one on.  0 points for a banana?  what?!  I am totally one of the people that would not reach for a banana ever because I didn't want to spend the 2-3 points.  Now they are probably the reason I am staying under my points every day. 

So far I love love love this plan - I am feeling refocused, counting everything and pulling out my calulator or complete food companion at the drop of a hat.  After doing the WW on and off for years, this was exactly what I needed.  Now, I have no idea if I will actually loose on Monday, but I'm feeling relaly good and proud on myself and in control again.  This came at the perfect time for me, and I'm sad that there are so many people who can do nothing but complain - when they haven't even tried it.  Come on people, give it a shot at least.  One of the biggest arguments for WW I've seen out there is trust them.  I may be nieve, but I don't think WW is doing this to make morte money - there are probably tons of people who left in a huff over this. 

Well, that's my rant and take on the new pointsplus system, 2 thumbs up, at least until I get on the scale!

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i just chose a banana to go with my diet dr pepper when i was in that mini mart. That's like...epic.

breaking the pattern

I just updated my weight, and looking at it, I'm a little nervous about this week.  According to recent patterns, I will gain this week.  I am going to try to keep that in mind all week as a goal to break that pattern.  Unfortunately, Sunday is my birthday.  In the past, I always just ate whatever that day, but I can't do that AND have a loss this week.  So maybe I'll push my birthday food by a day to Monday post weigh in.  I'm not talking about going nutso food crazy here, just about giving myself permission to have have something I love that normally I wouldn't choose because it's not worth it.  Usually General Tso's chicken wins out. 

This having candy in my house is not really working out for me.  My roommate has a small son who is in our house half the week, but his dads house candy is in our house all the time.  I asked his dad to hide it, but he hasn't, so I think I'm going to have to revisit that request.  I'm exhausted from tech week and when I am exhausted, I tend to make incredibly bad choices.  Plus I think I'm going to take a vacation day friday, and the thought of being in the house all day with all that candy is a little horrifying. 
This week, goal: breaking the pattern, can I do it?  Stay tuned!

at last at last

yahoo! i lost a pound yesterday, pushing me just over the 35 lost mark! its wierd because i read and hear a lot of people who have lost weight talking about going down in clothing size, but i have not shrunk out of a single piece of clothing yet. However, my clothes def fit me better, i must have been bursting at the seams before. How retroactively embarrassing.

pump it up! or not

i need to figure out a way to get some concentrated activity back into my life. I just have so much more energy and feel bettter mentally. I seem to have it in my head that i either have to go 6-7 days a week or not at all. which is totally stupid. I keep telling myself that i am going to join the brand new Y that is across the street from where i work. i love love love taking classes - doing it in my living room isnt the same, too easy not to push myself (though i think i am the only person on earth who doesn't like Zumba - i think i have taken too many real dance classes. Or i have just had really awful teachers) i just dnt have the money right now, hopefully i will get a raise this year so i can.

Car Trip Conundrum

I am happy to report that I lost 1.8 this week! That means that I am only .2 away from my lowest weight again (this time!) and .6 away from -35. With Halloween approaching like a speeding bullet, and me having a tremendous sweet tooth, I'm taking this weeks meeting topic to heart. My roommate's son is with us 50% of the time, so this morning I asked him to please hide any incoming candy from me. I really don't think I'll go looking for it if I don't know where it is, esp. since I'm going to be so busy with shows.


The other major issue this week is that I'm going to The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in DC this weekend. This means a 4 hour road trip. We are leaving Friday noonish and returning Saturday evening. I am worried about how much control I will have over food. Let's see, if I eat before I leave, that means I have dinner Friday, and breakfast, lunch and possibly dinner Friday. Probably continental breakfast at the hotel, so that's a problem, but they usually have like cheerios or something. Well, I'm not too terribly worried about eating out, when in doubt, there is usually a grilled chicken sandwich. The main concern in the road trip, where you are bored with nothing to do but eat. I need to figure out a couple snacks I can bring that are yummy, but not too yummy. You know, something I'll eat, but not eat all of in one sitting. Fruits and veggies won't work, because I won't eat them if there's something more tempting (neither of my friends I'm going with is attempting to loose weight as far as I know and they both looove junk food) and I can't rely on will power when bored in the car for 4 hours. When I went to Florida, homemade low cal guacamole worked really well, but my one friend loves guac, and I'm afraid she'll eat it all, so I'll need something else as well. This will take some careful consideration.
PS I just looked up the hotel we are staying in and there is a fitness center! Here's hoping I'll find the time Friday night to use it!

Why does the scale taunt me so?!?

So I haven't quit WW, cause I know that's what I would be thinking f someone didn't past for a couple weeks. But I am extremely frustrated. I had this really good week, and I gained .4, which I was just devastated about. I feel like I have to be completely PERFECT to loose anything, which honestly I shouldn't have to be, who's perfect? Anyway, I wasn't derailed until I became extremely sleep deprived (tech week) and then I just got this who cares attitude and ate and ate and ate. The good news? I only gained .4 that week too! WHAT?!? So confused, honestly I deserved a 5 pound gain the way I was eating - but I got on the scale because, for me, if I don't, it snowballs. Getting on that scale in front of someone and having my weight officially recorded is like an auto reset for me. And I am so happy it did - a point 4 gain?!?!


So this week I am back on track. Cooking, eating leftovers, bringing in my little snacks to get me through the day. yesterday I went to Dunkin Donuts because I wanted to get a copy of the City Paper (there was a fabulous review of my current running show in it) and I got a coffee (brought my own cream - I always use one creamer in the morning and count it as a point, but really two of them are a point, so adding another creamer really added no points) and instead of getting a whole donut that I really wanted and would have been 5 points, I got 2 munchkins at 1 point each. I made fiber one banana nut muffins last night because when I come home from rehearsal late at night I often crave a little sweet snack. Normally prepared they are 3 pts each, but I substituted the oil with apple sauce, and I think that made them 2 points each - I tried to figure it out the best I could.

I am seriously considering changing my weigh in day to sat morning. I am not willing to give up my leader who only does my current meeting at that particular center, but Monday nights are hard, man. I have to be super careful over the weekend, and I always end up starving myself on Mondays to get a better weight. That can't be healthy.

Salad quest!

Well I lost a little over half a pound yesterday, which I am actually pretty happy about - even though I am stil a little over a pound above my this time lowest.  I had a profound blog topic thought yesterday, but between then and now, I completely lost it.  That's what being sleep deprived does to you I guess.  I went to happy hour/drinking all night with a close friend of mine Friday night, which we do every couple months, and so I know know know that i went well over my allotted pointage, but I mucst have made up for it somewhere, because I lost weight!  Onward to next week.  I cna't wait forthis rehearsal every freaking day shit to be over.  I am so exhausted.  But that's not stopping me from making smart choices.  Go me.  I am still focused.  I do think all of this running around is helping me though.  I'm not bored at home grazing.  WHen I'm out, I am generally not around food, and though it does result in me going for fast food a lot, I always try to am myself in the general direction of Subway.  I would like to eat more salads though, but the ww app doens't seem to be terribly up to date with what salads the local fast food joints are selling.  While I want to get my fruits and veggies in, I want to stay within my points range as well.  I know from experience that salads can be higher points than say a turkey sub or a grilled chicken sandwich.  I just can't survive without dressing and I am not a fan of the ff ranch or ff italian, which is generally what's offered as the lighter option.  I'll have to research that, I suppose - when I find the time to breathe.

avoiding the binge monster

Well I am down this week, but just what I gained last week. I hate to be a negative nancy, but I feel like that weight was just TOM weight. Which sucks, because I was pretty good last week. But I am going to be better this week. I am still not getting any activity - honestly with my schedule, I can't- but that's ok for now. I am focusing on my food intake. And I have done a few things already this week that I am proud of. I was STARVING on the way home from rehearsal, but I talked myself out of going through some drive through somewhere, and instead waited until I got home and popped a bag of Healthy Choice popcorn. I was off work yesterday (random vacation day) and instead of getting Chinese for lunch like I normally do on my days off, I had leftover chili (about an 11 point difference!).


And my most proud moment - how I dealt with crisis last night. I got a flat tire on my way to rehearsal. I immediately called my director to let him know that I probably wouldn't make it out. He was very understanding, probably because I was on the verge of tears (I don't handle minor crisis very well at first). So I call triple A, because really I was on one of those roads with a million lights and a million shopping centers and while technically, I know how to change a tire, I have AAA, so why get all gross and sweaty and look stupid when AAA has fancy gadgets that will take them 5 minutes to do something that might possibly take me an hour? Plus, I felt I should get my moneys worth out of that, since I would be paying so much for two stupid tires later. Then I start calling around to see who can get me a new tire now, otherwise I would have to wait two days and that was not a good amount of time to be driving around on a spare. I found a place after a couple of failed phone calls (it was 7:30 at this place, most were closed or busy), and the AAA guy was the fastest I have EVER seen AAA be (5-10 minutes, I was seriously impressed). He was cute too. Anyway, I go up there, they are super nice, I get 2 tires (on the economical side, as the Sears guy put it, whatever) and while I was waiting I did a little retail therapy (the clothes depressed me but the seriously marked down purse made me feel better - and I always think lately when I go into the dressing room and get mad at my body and depressed about the size of my arms and thighs "at least I am doing something about it") Anyway, when all that was over, I could have gone home, I had a pass from the director, and I wrestled with what I should do. If I went to rehearsal, I would only be there for the last hour, but if I went home there was a really good chance I would eat a cake (because really, that's my true coping mechanism when dealing with crisis - food) And while I did have 10 points left, good luck finding a cake for 10 points, and lets be honest, there is a good chance I wouldn't have stopped with the cake. So I went to rehearsal, and everyone was really excited to see me, and my mind got past the need to stuff myself to make myself feel better. I did have a glass of wine and a cup cake (ok, 2). But I know know know that it would have been a million times worse had I gone home earlier. I counted for everything (went a couple points over, but I have quite a bit of my weeklies left.

So now I just have to get through this weekend - and my goal is to WRITE EVERY BITE DOWN. Which will be hard since I am going out drinking tonight with a friend, but I have the rest of my weeklies and after planning out my breakfast and lunch so far, I should be ok as long as I stick with light beer. Wish me luck!

still struggling

Well I was up 1.6 this week. I almost cried. I mean, I wasn't perfect, but I don't think I was a pound and a half bad! I have decided not to track any steps or excersize I do for a couple of weeks. I think those activity points make me cocky - like I have PLENTY Of points, I can afford to eat that! I am also going to pull back on activity period - just not make it a priority, just for a couple weeks. This is a great time to do that since I have rehearsal pretty much every day for a month. I also didn't start for the meeting Monday because I had to go meet with one of my directors. But I am going to the 5:30 meeting tonight and I knew that so I wasn't concerned.


This week I am also not eating points at the end of the night just because I have them. That's stupid. I have, however, been drinking a glass of wine every night, so a bunch of my extra points will be used anyway.

I am totally focused this week so far. I am writing everything down, and I am determined to write everything down over the weekend too. That was my downfall the last couple weeks I think. I know it's not even halfway over yet, but I am feeling good. I have about three and a half pounds to loose to get back down to my lowest weight, and that's frustrating, but I can't let it get to me. Food binges will only make things worse. I have to keep telling myself that.

Friday morning introspection + NSV

So I have been going to 2 meeting a week. I don't know if I've talked about this before, but it's only been going on for a few weeks. My old leader - the one I had when I lost the 100 the first time - came back to my center Thursday nights. And I love her! We actually became friends on my last journey, facebook friends and everything! Which I know leaders aren't supposed to do, but there you go. She is only there for a 6 week stint, and my reg meeting is on Mondays so it's a really nice mid week boost. Her take on the meeting topic is so different than my normal leader, so I really get something out of both meetings. I won't switch though, not because of the only six week thing, but because I feel like since my current leader didn't know me my last go round, she is less judgy about how I look now. Which I know is in my head that my old leader is judgmental about my current weight, but I do have those thoughts.


Anyway, at last nights meeting there was this woman who I guess lost a significant amount of weight (it was never said exactly how much, but from the way she talked, it seemed like a lot) And the leader asked her how she kept the motivation or something along those long lines. And this woman just went on this whole thing about how she would never ever ever, couldn't possibly go back to her old habits and gain in back, because well, she just couldn't go back to being that way and there wasn't a question in her mind blah blah blah. And I hate to be a shit about it, but I was like that too last time - there wasn't a doubt in my mind that I would keep it off. And I heard myself, last time in this woman, that extreme cockiness about the whole thing, and I cringed. Now maybe this lady will stick to her guns and keep it all off and I honestly hope that she does. I wish I had. And because I didn't, I am bitter and negative when people say things like that. For me, the weight came off sooooooo easily the first time, it just melted off, I swear to god. This time it's like I have to rip every ounce off. And it's hard and it sucks and I really really really regret being so cocky, because I think in the back of my head, somewhere, I thought "I could loose it again easily whenever I want!" HAH. I am praying that it being so difficult is going to change my attitude, that I'll be so friggin desperate not to let this happen again, that I really truly am in this for the long haul. But I suppose you never know.

Ok, on a much happier note, but also relating to last nights meeting, something awesome happened to me this morning. Even though I've lost 30+ pounds, I don't feel like I've gone down in size. It's more like I was bulging at the seams of my clothes before (mostly because it was getting harder and harder to find clothes that fit me, especially in my fav place, good will) and now it's more like I actually fit the clothes I was wearing before. So Last nights meeting was about setting a goal before Halloween. I hate setting scale time goals because I almost never reach them in the allotted time and then I just get depressed and pissed off. So someone suggested a clothing goal - fit into a piece of clothes. Now I did give a lot of my fav stuff to my best friend and I grew out of it (and I know she's getting/gotten rid of a lot of that because she is growing out of stuff, which pisses me off, but whatever) but I do have some things in the back of my closet that I refused to get rid of, or bought but they were a little too small, but I loved them enough and it was in the beginning of my current journey so I bought them anyway - I ended up choosing one of those. But I digress. I tried on this one pair of pants I used to love and holy crap, they fit! They are actually a little loose around my waist, but I have such an hourglass figure that it's hard to find stuff that it's big around my waist (and I hate low rides, I always want to pull them up - a sign that I am getting old and unfashionable.



And wow this is a long blog post, but I had a lot to say!

I heart danishes! :(

Today I am feeling incredibly weak. I am hormonal or something and just feeling really lonely and depressed. This happened last month and it totally got the best of me and I gave in and ate and ate and ate. Right now I am fighting the urge to go to the food court downstairs and get a pastry. Mmmm...pastries....
But I won't. I'm also worried about dinner, I was depressed, so my roommate convinced me that I didn't have to cook (he didn't have to work very hard). And we are completely out of leftovers in my house, making me extremely vulnerable to the lure of fatty fast food. Last night I made decent fast food choices and miracurasly managed to stay in my points for the day - And I did the fitness track! Plus got to my 10,000 step daily goal.

The only thing I have going for me is that I am now in the midst of crazy rehearsal schedule (i do community theatre in addition to my day job - stage managing, usually) so unlike last month I won't be sitting at home wanting to eat everything in sight, with plenty of options of what to eat. I will be at rehearsal, and tonight is vocals for Trial by jury, which means I will spend 2 hours walking the halls, raking up the steps, so at least I will get activity and won't have any food within grasp. I can get through this week, I have to!

Gain...of course.

Well I haven't had a chance to update yesterdays weigh in, but it's not good. I gained back what I lost last week. UG. There are a couple possible reasons for such a big gain. I did have Chinese food for dinner last night, which could have bloated me...or it could have been the I-don't-care-I-am-putting-what-I-want-into-my-mouth Saturday I had - Including two(!) danishes. Well, they were yummy, but boy was it not worth it. The good news is I hadn't had one of those days in a long time, and it seems to be out of my system now. I also seem to be on the steady loose three weeks in a row, gain the 4th week groove, which I am NOT happy with! More bad news 0 next week will be my TOM. So I guess I will have to be more focused than ever this week if I am going to hope to see ANY loss. The thought is just depressing, but I am refocused and ready to go! My promise to myself is to do the fitness trail by my house this week at least 2 times, despite my crazy busy schedule. I brought sneakers and a work out shirt and they are waiting for me in my car so I will have no excuse to go home first and get lost in the TV or something. (yeah I have NO problem changing my shirt in my car, I'm weird like that).
I am also going to try to make it a habit to post every Tuesday, at least - writing all this stuff is incredibly helpful to me.

My turtle journey

Well I lost a little over a pound this week - so what I gained last week plus a wee little bit more.  I am so frustrated with my crawling pace.  For someone with my weight - who writes EVERYTHING down and works out, I shouldn't be loosing so incredibly slowly - it's extremely frustrating.  Especially since my ww buddy once again said she was incredibly lax again this week and lost 4 pounds.  How is that fair?  Her laziness is being rewarded and my diligence is being punished - that's how it feels anyway.  Well I'm not going to stop being dilligent, because every time I do, I gain a LOT - so i willl keep plugging away, and eventually I'll get there, just four years after she reaches her goals.  If I'm lucky. 
    Maybe I need to stop using all my extra points in one fell swoop - but every time I use them throughout the week i end up going way over.  I think this week I am going to use my activity points - why not?  Experiment of the week - and it's just one week.

having your period really really sucks

OK well blogspot is being a bitch and won't save my colors, but you can still clearly see that I gained a pound today.  Not really a surprise, it's actually less than I thought it would be.  Plus you have to factor in that I got my period today, so if I am super good this week, I should see a nice loss next week.  Here's hoping anyway.  This week I have a lot planned in the evenings, which are my trouble food times,  so hopefully that will stop me from eating at night, at least for this week.  I also plan to get back into daily exercising.  I felt so much better and less lazy when I was doing that.
I hate hate hate how slow this is going.  I want this stupid weight to be off already.  I hate myself for letting it all back on again - how could I be so stupid?  But what's done is done and all I can do is try try again.  This week I commit to writing every point down, no matter what.

why is food so delicious?

This week has been a rough one - and I was doing so well and being so focused! I just can't stop eating. So my routine has been go home, eat too many low point items, and leave the house and go geocaching where I work up a considerable sweat (a lot of bushwhacking is involved), come home, eat a little while I catch up on some TV and then go to bed (after showering). So I still go over my daily points every day, but at least I'm getting in quite a bit of activity. I am terrified of what Monday will bring, because I want to STAY in the 230's damnit.


I found my old cards from a couple years ago when I did weight watchers at work. They are interesting to say the least. I can watch three cards worth of progression of me going up up up - I was around 174 at my lowest at those meetings. (my all time WW lowest was 163) This was the time that I was doing ww, but it really wasn't helping at all! I am currently 2 pounds above where I was at my highest point on those cards (on 1/22/09). I guess I have a new mini goal. I'll like to use these cards to start checking off/dating when I hit each of those weights. If that makes any sense. Well it does to me!

I could be wrong, but I don't think I've gone over my weekly 35, so I think I'm still in ok shape. plus I still have activity ones. I just have to get through the next three days without making any horrifically bad decisions. I can do this. I am going to try to eat very light on Sunday as will - something that's been proving difficult the past couple of months.
 
I am going to see some friends in Disney's High School Musical tonight.  Then we are going to go out to eat after - probably Uno's.  Uno's has some good food uptions - but not a lot and I am kind of getting sick of Uno's.  But they always go there Fridays because of karaoke.   Oh well, at least I know what I can eat.  I also discovered via Hungry Girl this morning that the item I always get at Applebees (yeah, I am not a fan of the WW options, they're ok, but kind of boring) the Grilled Shrimp 'N Spinach Salad is a whopping 26 points!!!! Holy crap!  All it is is spinich, grilled shrimp, bacon (chopped, it's like a piece of bacon) and a sprinkling of almonds.  20 of those points have got to be pure dressing!  Thank you Hungry Girl for opening up my eyes once again.  Next time I am getting Spicy Shrimp Diavolo, which is an insane 10 points.  Who would have thought that pasta would be healthier than a salad!

Weighing in can be fun!

So I didn't meet my activity goals last week, but the scale was nice to me anyway - down 1.8!!! I am so excited. I mist have some something right, even though I dind't do anything right. I took my measurements and am not happy with the results, i need to get back to a better regiment. Starting today! I love how a weight loss makes me feel, I can only hope to keep it up, but so far so good!
The meeting was wierd without M there, butI went anyway and sent her an update (she sent me hers too)  The topic was all about filling foods, which sometimes I am great at, other times not so much. 
I forgot my pedometer today, which stinks, because that's what keeps me modivated to keep moving throughout the day.  I am going to put it on to go grocery shopping after work, and I would like to walk at the track today unless it's completely sweltering.  I might try to get in a couple pilates videos then too.  I relaly need to get back of a regular schedule of the wii golds gym and I need to work parts of my body that aren't my legs.  Walking is great and simple, but I want/need more of a full body work out. 

Longest week in the world

I actually went to the track and did golds gym last night and a pilates video!  Holy crap!
so I have left: pilates: 6  Track: 2 Wii: 2.

It took a whole lot of will power, but I did it.  This is urning out to be the longest week ever.  I'm also having problems getting all my points in.  We don't keep junk in our house, so when i have a few extra points at the else of the day, there aren't a lot of options.  Last night I had a tablespoon of peanut butter to get them all in.
I have discovered that I like raw zucchini.  Hey, don't knock it till you try it!

A boring update

Wii fit: 1
to go: Track: 3, Wii Fit: 3, Pilates videos: 7

I had a whole huge post written, but I accidentally deleted it.  I'm notrelaly in the mood to retype the whole thing, so I'll just leave it at this for now.

I did it, Hooray!

Well I did it!  I hit my 30 lb mark(again)!  I lost a little over a lb, though my ww buddy lost 5 lbs!  How does she do it?  She does go running a lot, but I get my exersize in.  Oh well, the important one here is me.  My next goal is to loose a food point, only about .6 to that.  I know it seems like a silly goal - who wants to haveto eat LESS?  But I am finding that when I get my GHG in, 30 points of food a day is a bit excessive (except on days I have an event of some sort going on).  Next week is my week!  I don't think it's at all unreasonable to loose half a pound in a week.  Though I do have this awful back and forth pattern going on.  I relaly need to stay forcused this week.
    I find that I live for Monday weigh ins, and TUesdays and Wednesdays sort of suck, mostly because they are so far away from Mondays!  Next week I am going to have to go to my meeting alone, because M (WW buddy) will be on vaca.  That'll be so wierd because I have yet to go to a meeting without her there since I restarted this.  
    My goals for the week are activity related.  I want to do one of my minute long pilates videos every day (If i can't find a minute a day, there's a problem), I want to get back in the habit of doing wii gold's gym (for the arms) Lets say a min of four times this week, and go to the track at least 3 times.  I want to get at least 30 activity points total.  I feel better when I exersize and I feel like I have fallen out of it.  I'll keep track here.  Well my lunch hour is almost over, so off to publish!

First post's a charm

I have been cooking a lot this weekend.  Well, a lot for me.  Yesterday I made zucchini bread for my best friend who got in a car accident last week.  She had a bunch of zucchini and squash that she gave me under the condition that i used some of it to make zucchini bread, since I guess she had a craving pre-accident.  Since it wasn't for me, I made the fat/sugar filled completely delicious kind.  Of course I ended up trying a small piece, but I'm not too worried since I didn't eat much yesterday and I went on a 4 hour geocaching expedition with my brother and his wife(and we don't do it the easy follow the path way).  This morning I made zucchini sticks with a recipe that was recommended to me weeks ago at a ww meeting.  They turned out really well and I got at least 3 servings of veggies in.  I really struggle with those stupid good health guidelines, but I am doing much better than I was.
I gained last week because I was on vacation the week before in the happiest place on earth (The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter of course) but unfortunately, I have been struggling with exercise and really honestly tracking since I've been back.  Still, I managed to get 26 activity points so far this week and I haven't gone over my points, its been a struggle but I'm doing it.  Its also, and I'm ashamed to admit this, a little frustrating that my ww buddy is loosing like 3-4 lbs a week (or so it seems, she is def loosing faster than me, even though I writing down every fracking point and before vaca was getting about 40 activity points a week and she thinks she had a bad week, didn't write anything down and will loose 3 lbs....wtf)
Well weigh in is tomorrow, so I'll be sure to post something post weigh in - whether us be a sob story or a celebration.  I am so close to 30 lbs!