Weight Watchers revamped their Points program into PointsPlus. Now you have daily points plus additional weekly points, and you can earn activity points. The week runs Sunday through Saturday, and since I started on Wednesday, I mentioned to my hubby that I was going to consider my weekly points used up. I know I hadn't been eating the best the past few days, part of it was not feeling well from the surgery and certain foods didn't sit right, the other was me using the surgery as an excuse to eat whatever I felt like. I had stepped on the scale read I weighed 314 lbs, yikes! I had put on over 4 lbs in just a few short days! Part of it could be from swelling, but I'll get realistic and say probably not that much. So I was pretty certain those weekly points were gone.
I was not going to go back and fill in what I ate the prior three days, I didn't think it was too important. I'm moving forward, not looking back. That, and I don't think I can remember exactly everything I ate, and the amount. Finally, I decided I would so that I could make the available weekly points not show they were available anymore. I'm a numbers girl, what can I say. Also, just the number showing it was available made me think about maybe using a little. Surely not ALL of my weekly points could be used up, right?
So I started filling in Tuesday. It didn't look too bad, maybe I might have some weekly points left over. Started filling in Monday, remembered some things for Tuesday, filled those in, still had almost half of my weekly points available. Started filling in Sunday, remembered some more things for Monday and Tuesday, went back and added them, now I've gone over my weekly points allotment by 2 points. Stopped filling in Sunday. I can't remember what I had for dinner that day. I've even remembered more food for Monday and Tuesday that I forgot, but I haven't entered those in. Does it matter anymore? I got my wake up call.
My goodness! I'm worse off then I thought I really was. In less than 2 days, I went through my daily allotment of points AND went over my weekly points allotment. AND I ate like that everyday! In a weeks time, I probably ate 3-4 times my weekly points allotment, if not more. What was I doing to myself? I WAS worse then I thought. It WAS really bad! I WAS eating WAY more then I was suppose to. So I had myself quite the wake up call today. I'm so glad I went back and started filling in the days prior to starting Weight Watchers =)
Oh, and I weighed myself today. I'm already down to 310 lbs! I know weight fluctuates, but I'm still excited.
Weight Watchers was an excellent program to help me learn portion control and realize exactly what I was putting in my mouth. It's important to "get real" and to understand proper portion control. I too know what it's like to have those "get real" moments.... I've had a few of my own recently too. But like you said it's not about the past, it's about the future. You can't get down on yourself for things you can't undo... you can only try and do better from now on.
ReplyDeletePS- You also EARN points from excercise... so maybe you can make up some of those overages by adding some exercise to your routine this week. =)
Sorry about that, that's what you do to earn activity points, exercise =) The problem is I can't do a whole lot yet because of the surgery. No strenuous activity for 2 weeks and no lifting over 10-15 lbs for 4 weeks. I'm going to try to do 10 minutes of slow walking. That will give me 1 point. But I have to be careful to not work my abdominal muscles until my abdominal muscles integrate the mesh that was put in place, which takes 4 weeks. Also, don't want the titanium clamps that are currently holding the mesh in place to rip out. Unfortunately, almost everything you do uses abdominal muscles, so I'm pretty sedentary for the time being =( But it's ok. Soon I'll be able to earn plenty of those exercise points =)
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