Day Five...

As I stated in my first post...I have done WeightWatchers MANY times.  I know it works!  I've lost literally HUNDREDS of pounds doing WeightWatchers.  I can tell you the points of many things in my head.  I will always know that an egg is two points.  I will always know that four ounces of deli turkey is two points. I will always know that one ounce of most any cheese is three points.  I kinda have this down.

I also have made many observations about the process, or should I say MY process.  I know that after a gain my first week back on program is usually above the average of 0.5-2 pounds you should be losing a week.  I know that if I eat my weekly points that WW allows, I will not lose.  I know that drinking alcohol typically makes me not lose that week.  I know that I can earn activity points (yup...you get to eat more if you exercise...it's still not really worth the trade off to me yet...) BUT I cannot use those activity points.  I know that certain medications make me gain.  I know that salt is bad.  But the title of this post is day five.  The fifth day that I have been on track.  It is around this fifth day that my body says, "What the hell are you doing?  We had a deal!  You feed me burgers and chips and fudge and cookies and I keep you happy."  and I kind of go into a "starvation" mode of sorts.  My body kicks into high gear and all I think about ALL DAY LONG is food.  Sweet, salty, whatever!  It doesn't matter!  It just wants to eat!  So all day long at work (again!) all I could think about was food.  I was starving from the minute I walked in the doors at school to sitting down just now to write this post.  BUT, I think this is the first time I've realized that this is what is happening!  So, I texted a friend.  She and I talked about this little dilemma and I threatened to eat my arm off (I was that hungry, and thought it would help out my scale number tomorrow!!).  She talked me down off the ledge by telling me not to blow it before my weigh in tomorrow and I moved on with my day.  At the end of the day, I stayed within my points, and I learned that I have a good resource for helping me when these things come up.  So double win!  The other thing that helped?  Knowing I would have to report to this blog tonight and share with the world (because I actually think the whole world is reading this...HA!) that I had binged, or eaten my arm was also enough the give me pause.  So, thank you blog-readers!

Typing my post was just interrupted by the sound of silence.  When you have a two year old in the house silence can be even more frightening than screams of bloody murder.  So, I fearfully got up out of my chair and walked around the house...not in the playroom...not in the living room.  Amelia was..."Um...La, do you know where Em is?" "I think she's in the kitchen."  The kitchen that I had just finished cleaning.  I slowly turned and heard her start humming softly to herself.  I came around the corner to find Emerson on her hands and knees with about eight towels, mopping the floor.   Investigating further, she had gotten into the fridge, got a bowl, put blackberries in the bowl, and managed to pour the entire quart of 1/2 and 1/2 over the berries in the bowl...something she and I have shared many times. 

"Emerson Jane!  What did you do?"

"Bowy (sorry) Mommy...I healthy like you."

As mad as I wanted to be, I also took a moment to be proud.  Proud of Em, but also proud of myself because not only am I losing weight and doing WW to be healthier for myself, but I'm also laying the groundwork to help my kids be healthy too.  Another double win!

Tomorrow is weigh-in and I am looking forward to the number that might appear on that scale!  And I'm looking forward to being able to share that (hopeful) success with you all in tomorrow night's blog.  I hope it's a good number!  BUT, since this is a marathon and not a sprint, any number down will be a step in the right direction!

FOOD FOR THE DAY:
Breakfast: Pineapple Chobani Greek Yogurt and Open Nature Honey Dream Granola

Lunch: Green Chili and Cheddar Turkey Burger (last one - see?  Leftovers are GREAT!), 3 mandarin oranges, and 1 piece of See's chocolate

Dinner: Pulled pork sandwiches, brussel sprouts (This is one of my favorite meals EVER!  And super easy.  I do it in my crock pot so it's ready when I get home from work, and maybe to also taunt my poor babysitters all day long because YUM!  I've had brussel sprouts before and I just steam them and I usually love them...but YUCK!  This time I don't know if they weren't good or what, but they were mushy.  I'm a HUGE texture person so most of these went to the chickens...eew!)

Dessert: 5 mini all butter chocolate chip shortbread cookies