A week without the scales.

This week's post is a bit late due to my beautiful laptop being sick, infected with a trojan, but so far, as far as I can see, all is okay at the minute. Fully aware I could have emailed a post in, seeing as I use posterous as my host, but then I couldn't add in pictures, and that's no fun.

After my really positive entry last week, I went to my weigh in and depressingly put on half a pound, depressingly because I had no way of understanding how I put on weight, there was just no way I ate that much to have put on weight. Especially not for the amount of exercise I was doing too.
That meeting was also hosted by Elizabeth, a nice enough lady, but a bad motivator.
I took my gain, not really counting it in my head and figured I'll just have to work harder in the next week.
I did not stay for the meeting, and judging from others I have since talked to, no one seemed to, I did note her table set up and think the topic was on 'missing meals' and although this did intrigue me as it's something that I haven't seen covered in a meeting. It didn't tempt me to stick it out. I went home and planned the weeks shopping, meals and exercise. And I stuck to it, not going over my points once.


I also put away my scales, I wrapped them up, back in the box and gave them to the boyfriend to hide away from me, so I went an entire week without weighing myself once!



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And it paid off! That Tuesday meeting just past I went to the meeting, was (as I tend to be, probably 'cus I live so close to my meeting) first one there. I stood outside waiting for the doors to open, and I could hear Jackie, my proper leader, the one I have missed so bad. I could have died of happiness walking back into that room and seeing her there. After her two week holiday she was quite disorganised, so I still have no new membership card, this makes my purse look and feel quite sad, but I will have it by next week. She swore, also along with my certificate for 50+lbs lost.


I stood on the scale and found I was down 1.5lbs I was extremely pleased with this, mostly because I was totally petrified of the scale seeing as I had not stood on one in that entire week!


But saying that, that night I went out for dinner, back to my favourite restaurant, Murphy Browns, just up the road from me. And I had dinner there, along with wine and a 6point dessert... Bad Sazz.



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I as always went for my chicken fajitas



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And garlic potatoes



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That were so enjoyed



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More boldness ensued once home.



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Points went entirely out the window the next few days, I actually got to the point where I just thought, screw tracking. And that's a first with me, I have a total addiction to tracking, I take pictures of that which I can't point at the time to mull it over later if I eat out, and I use apps on my phone for tracking daily, not to mention the proper official tracker I keep in my weightwatchers folder. I have honestly no clue why I did it. But as soon as I realised it, and roughly, through memory calculated the damage - I think I've went over by about 15 - 20points in two days and realised that I can't make up for that in saving points or exercise this week, the anger I felt towards myself was ridiculous.


Until I realised, what can I do? There's no point in getting angry with myself. I just need to get back on track. Literally, back to pointing everything that goes near my mouth. so hopefully this weeks weigh in won't have done too much damage. I do definitely expect to put on because I haven't been saving points, I'm eating up to my 22 because I want to, I haven't been running, or any type of exercise because my right leg started to play up, a weird tingly sort of pain which everyone I've spoke to suspect is shin splints and I'm heading to the doctors this week to confirm suspicions, resting it and taking anti-inflammatory tablets until I find out for sure. Bit worried about it, but sure I can't do anything 'til I get diagnosed properly.


I've tried to be better this week, example one is what I decided to have at starbucks, I have pretty much their entire menu pointed thanks to their app they have available on the itunes store, but I didn't have the points to spare so thought ahead and brought my own cookies.


 



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and example two... is really just me wanting to show off this egg cup.


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I'm really hoping the damage isn't too much though I have completely resigned myself to expecting a gain this week.


My focus this week has been on making nice tasting low point meals and it was suggested by Jen that I try make it into a feature, so in addition to having my weekly update, I try a recipe as well, recipe of the week type thing. So we'll see how that pans out.


Expect an update soon!


Sarah xx

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