If you take a look at the "Current Weight" to the left - you'll see that in just five days I lost five pounds! I was shocked and thrilled when I got on the scales this morning and saw that number on the scales. Now I'm not naive...I've been dieting for most of my adult life, so I know that the first week of weight loss is usually dramatic and then it'll slow down. I should consider even one pound a week a success. With past diets an average weight loss for me is 3 pounds a week, but that was also with some heart rate revving activity on a regular basis. I haven't initiated the activity yet - still trying to figure out my schedule to determine what makes the most sense. But hopefully once I introduce that element my weight loss will hang around the three pounds a week mark.
Still - seeing that five pound drop in just a matter of days is great for the ego and is a motivation to stay the course.
A Step Back
However....there's always a however isn't there? Today was one of those days, where it was difficult to keep track of my points (the Weight Watchers plan allots you so many points per day and assigns point values to food items). My son, daughter-in-law and grandson spent the weekend with me and today after our Sunday morning Baha'i school, we went to a fabulous Chinese buffet for lunch. I was pretty good at watching what I ate, staying away from fried or oily foods, and I didn't eat nearly as much as I ordinarily would - yet I felt pretty full and happy after this lunch! I decided not to try to calculate the points and just opted for not eating dinner.
That was the problem! I had an evening event to attend and a crisis with a friend who was locked out of her home that took until 10 p.m. to resolve and by the time I got home I was ravenous. The mini-bag of popcorn that is only one point didn't do - if nothing - it just helped me realize just how hungry I was! There was a "to go" box from our family dinner yesterday full of pita bread wedges and real butter. Uh oh - I know better than this. But of course, the justifications jumped in - I hadn't eaten dinner, I probably had available points to spend, although how could I know since I didn't record them earlier? A couple of wedges and a little butter wouldn't hurt. And it wouldn't have - except that the two wedges triggered a need for a couple of more wedges, which in turn led to two more! Maybe not so much from the pita bread, but the thick butter slathered on the wedges most definitely led me past the allowable points. But it was soooo good going down!
I learned my lesson however - and know I have to be more careful about planning my meals in advance, keeping a good eye on my points, and remembering how good it felt to see that first five pounds disappear.
As Scarlett O'Hara would say, "Tomorrow is another day."
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