Christy

Hello brand new week! I’m so happy to see you. Seriously. After last week’s Flex Points debacle, I’m ready for a clean slate and a fresh set of Points. I will never, ever act like that again! Promise!

So on to the good stuff!

Last week’s weight: 140
This week’s weight: 138
Change: -2 POUNDS <—--Did you see that? OMFG! I haven’t lost 2 pounds in a month, muchless ONE week, in I don’t even know how long!

THIS is why we sing the praises of Weight Watchers. This very reason. If you do it, and  you are honest with yourself in tracking your points, it works. Simple. Yes, it’s a little cumbersome when you first start out, but isn’t anything new? If you are on the fence about Weight Watchers, please get off and give it a try.

What did I learn this week? I learned that I need to plan a little better for my splurges. There is nothing wrong with splurging. As a matter of fact, I think you HAVE to splurge every now and then, or else you’ll go completely insane and the paddy wagon will pull up in your driveway.

I also learned that my indulgences are not what they used to be. One night this past week, I was starving to death (because I blew all my Flex Points) and wanted something, anything to eat. I grabbed the nearest thing and plunged it into Cool Whip. The nearest thing was a Z-bar, okay TWO Z-bars, and the Cool Whip was light. While I totally used Points I didn’t have, it could have been so much worse. The old me would have grabbed a 1/2 gallon of ice cream out of the freezer and polished most of it off. In one sitting. With chocolate sauce and probably nuts, too. Yeah, that was me.

So I am victorious this week, because I finally realized that I’ve been successful! I have changed my LIFESTYLE, and that is a huge win for me.

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It’s Monday and I have a lot to confess. So much. While I tried, and mostly succeeded, to make good choices over the holiday weekend, it didn’t always work out.

1. We had friends in town, and that meant going out to eat ALOT.
2. I suck at eating healthy when dining out.  SUCK.
3. I ordered 1/2 & 1/2 soup and sandwich on Friday. I really wanted a burger, but I resisted. I had a couple of fried pickles.
4. Instead of the steak I wanted to order on Saturday night, I had a grilled chicken breast. But I did indulge in mashed potatoes! Fair trade off, I think.
5. We made s’mores. I ate alot of them. The end.
6. I really wanted pancakes on Sunday morning, but I ordered a Western omlette instead. Unfortunately, it was drowning in cheese
7. It was all over on Sunday afternoon. I skipped lunch because breakfast was kinda more like lunch, and then I had 2/3 of a cheeseburger, a hot dog (reduced fat at least!), baked beans, artichoke dip, beer, banana pudding (made with FF pudding and reduced fat Nilla wafers, but at this point, did it really matter?), beer, and not much water.
8. I’m pretty much a swollen mess right now. It sucks and I wish I could rewind the entire day yesterday. I would have eaten dry toast and coffee for breakfast and stuck with just hot dogs for dinner. Ugh.
9. What’s done is done. I can only hope that the number on the scale goes down today and tomorrow. If not, then I’ll be reporting a gain on Wednesday, and I really, really, really don’t want to report a gain.
10. That would suck my ass.

I am sitting in a hotel room in San Antonio, Texas. Home of world famous Mexican food. Tex Mex. The REAL deal, y’all. I’m wondering if I’ll be able to maintain control or if I’ll be sayin’ buh-bye the 140s as quickly as I said HELLO.

I’m so torn. I mean I want to be good and eat right, but I so very rarely get the opportunity to eat really good Mexican food and drink really good margaritas and have really good flan for dessert. What is a girl to do?

I sorta have a plan that involve drinking alot of water and only have one “bad” meal a day! Like last night, we ate at Jason’s Deli and I had a turkey wrap and fresh fruit! Not bad at all. Today, we’ll probably eat Mexican for lunch (get it over early in the day) and then a sandwich or something light for dinner. And the hotel has a gym, so later on you might find me in there. Hopefully.

So wish me luck! And if you’re ever in Texas, look me up so I can show you the really good Mexican food restaurants. That stuff you’re eating in North Dakota, Indiana, and Virginia isn’t really Mexican food.

This past weekend, I ate my way through went to Houston for an early Christmas with my parents. Oh yes, I ate. And ate, and ate. I’m actually a little ashamed of myself right now. Okay, ALOT ashamed of myself. I’m afraid to even go within 10 feet of my scale because it might start yelling at me!

You see, it’s been awhile since I ate in visited Houston. Houston is so many things – my former home, the place where my family lives, where my husband works, and the mecca of all meccas for dining out. Oh yes it is. At one point, Houston had more restaurants per capita, than any other city in the U.S. So you see what I was up against here, right?

In case you didn’t know, I live in the middle of nowhere, with very few options for dining out. So that kinda makes it easier to diet. A little. Let me just tell you, I have NO intention of going to Houston again anytime soon. At least not until I get a better handle on my willpower!

I’m not even going to go into all the wonderfully, delicious crap I ate. I will tell you, today I had a granola bar and a cup of coffee for breakfast and for lunch I had a 2 point grilled cheese sandwich and LOTS of water. And with that, I’m back on track. And I promise to try harder.