down down down

I hate to jinx it, but I have had a very focused few weeks.  I am loving the new plan.  And now, I'm only . away from my lowest weight this time - I hope that's not too much pressure.  It's only 1/2 a day into my new week, but I seem to be just as focused. 

stupid Aunt Flo

I find that the week before I get my period, I cannot stay away from food - esp sweets, but pretty much anything high calorie is fair game. So I am finding this week, after an awesome massive 5 lb loss last week, especially hard. I want so desperately to keep loosing, but I seem to have absolutely zero self control. And because my rehearsals for the week were cancelled - and because of a snow storm, I have no place to go to escape the food. We don't even really keep "bad" stuff in the house, but damned if I can't go over my points+ in any situation. So tonight I've made plans to get out of the house, Saturday I have rehearsals and then I am supposed to go play laser tag with some friends Sat night but I may just go anyway and bring a book to get out of the house and do something active. I am DETERMINED not to go over my points this week, but I really feel like I’m fighting a loosing battle.

still here!

Still here, still on Weight Watchers, though during the two holiday weeks that was questionable. But I love challenges and while my leader didnt talk about it, the newsletter said they are starting one, and week one is tracking, which i have been diligently doing plus I started a self imposed "work out for 30 days in a row" challenge. Today is day five and going strong! Sending this from my phone which is why it's crap!

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.