Adrienne

Current weight: 227.5
Loss: -3.5
Total Loss to Date: -3.5

Low Point of the week: Earlier this week I had a major setback when I discovered that the coffee shop I work at is now selling cheesecake. Oh yeah. Godiva freaking cheesecake, to the tune of 17 weight watcher points a slice. I know, because I totally binge ate one. I packed it up and put it in the car, and then scarfed it super fast on the way home so that my fiance wouldn't catch me. How is that for sad? "Hi, my name is Adrienne, and I am a closet cheesecake binger."

My other low point was at my teacher inservice, where lunch was provided for teachers. Oh yeah, big tubs of Pizza Hut Alfredo. Great. I brought a HUGE salad, and had to actually go into my room, away from my co-workers, to eat it... and was so stuffed I thought I couldn't move... but move I did.... all the way over to the cake table, to get myself a generous helping of cake, that wasn't even that good. Seriously.

What I Learned This Week: To help me cope with that, I decided the cheesecake is definitely a trigger food of mine, and henceforth I will have it twice a year. Once on my birthday, in November, and once on my anniversary, in May. At first that bummed me out, but then I thought about how panicky I was when I came home and entered that into the points tracker-- SEVEN HUNDRED AND TEN CALORIES. 17 points is exactly half of my points budget for a day. FOR AN ENTIRE FREAKING DAY. No thank you, man. I'd rather eat tomatoes and be full.

Other lessons---

I also learned that I need to work a TINY bit harder. There were several days when, at the end of the day, I would find myself scrambling for something, anything, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING!!!!!!, that I could eat. I realized that if I had done a better job earlier in the day of managing my points (ahem.... eating more fruits and vegetables with my meals rather than just nuking a Healthy Choice meal....) I would probably stay fuller longer.

I also learned... gasp!... that I am going to have to start cooking. The packaged food is easiest, most convenient (and probably tastes better than the food that I will be attempting to prepare!) but it also gets old really fast, and probably, in the long run, is not the healthiest thing I could have.

Goal for next week:

My goal this coming week is to meet all my good health guidelines (you know, the five servings of veggies, 40 oz of water, etc. They are weight watcher prescribed). I did VERY well on this the past week, better than I thought I would, but I need to make it an effort to be sure to get all my water in and all my veggies.

My other goal is to begin working out on my lunch break NEXT week, which means mentally preparing myself for it this week. Trust me, I am an exercise FREAK. I hate sweating. But I am also terrified of having the flabby skin when I reach goal, and everyone says that working out is the best way to tighten the skin. Also, I think that working out on my break will keep me from snacking all over the school while I lounge. Seriously, that's a little gross.