Where do I go from here?

Ever since the Dominican, I've had a very hard time keeping on track with my points. And I could say it's because I was on a navy contract but I think that'd be a lie. Because if I had been going to the Dominican after my contracts, I definitely would be watching my points. Basically what I'm trying to say is that I don't have a specific goal. "I want to look better" or "I want to be healthier" are just not going to cut it. I just don't have anything very specific in mind. Bathing suit season isn't specific enough either. Basically, I think I'm just going to have to exercise my willpower. Friday will be my first "week" back, but I'm starting today. I can do it!

Potlucks

...I hate them. :(

Friday Weigh-In

I weighed in on Friday and I'm down to 123 pounds! That's 2.5lbs gone from 125.5 or 4 pounds gone from 127 (what I was when I got back from Victoria)!

Then I went shopping because I needed smaller jeans! I got size 26 in my jeans and I bought knee length shorts at size 3!

Getting Back To It!

Well, I'm finally back home again and I have lots to say weight-wise!

First of all, there was the Dominican trip which was wonderful and awesome! I didn't end up counting points. There was lots of drinking, though not as much as I thought there'd be, and lots of eating, though I didn't go crazy. My last official weigh in came to 125.5 pounds and when I weighed myself the morning after the trip I was 127. A pound and a half. Not bad at all! So then that morning I flew off to Victoria, B.C. for my navy contract.

It didn't start well. With the 4.5 hour time difference, my stomach did not understand that it may have been time to eat at home, but not in B.C. Then of course there was my first meal in the mess hall. I walked in, took one look at the menu and headed to the salad bar. There was NOTHING low in points. NOTHING. It was terrible. Or so I thought. I sailed on Monday on my ship and there the food was no better but there were only two options and no salad bar. It was take it or leave it. I basically lived on porridge with some other food thrown in there. There were attempts to count points, but it just wasn't possible. On top of it all, the fact that I ate the same things all the time made avoiding the bad stuff very hard. When you spend the last 5 days eating almost nothing but cereal and porridge, you have no idea how good brownies look. One day I actually, after supper, at about 6 or 7 brownies and 4 slices of banana bread. When we got back ashore a week later, I did better. On Friday I went out to eat and went for ice cream but I'm pretty sure it fit into my points. On Saturday I just threw my points into the wind since it was the last day in Victoria for me. I had more ice cream, two strawberry daquiries with supper and copious amounts of Malibu rum (with Coke Zero though!) that evening.

In the end though, all was well. I stepped on the scale Monday morning after I got home and was 127. Never gained a pound somehow. I think it might actually be that my body has adjusted itself to my new weight and that bad eating now and then doesn't affect it like it used to. What was even crazier is that before I went to bed, I weighed myself and I was 125.5. I went down during the day! It was like one day back to eating normally and BAM! My body just got rid of the pounds. So basically I'm back to where I left off before the Dominican! I can't wait to see if there's any change on Friday!

Fly away!

I'm leaving today for the Dominican! I've got my tupperware container packed with lots of low calorie snacks, and the mindset to go to the gym every morning! It's the alcohol thing that's going to be hard. I enjoy drinking, and it's free, and I'm going to be lying in the sun and swimming in a pool. It's hard to resist. But I'll try my best. So what if I go over a bit, it's vacation. I know eveyone has been saying you can't take a vacation from WW and all that, and I'm not really, I just may have a few more drinks or whatever. Plus, half the reason I'm told that is because once you do that it's hard to get back into it. For me it's not though. I didn't count over Christmas, and although I gained 5 pounds, I said "I'm starting back on WW the day I go back to school in January" (the 7th I think) and I did, perfectly counting my points and lost 3 pounds my first week back (which was only 4 days because I weight Fridays).

Another thing is when I go on my navy contract. Normally I gain weight but now that I have a plan to follow that I have been following since November, I know I won't. Because I know it won't be like before where I'd walk by the plate of cookies and say "One won't hurt!" because now I know one WILL hurt! Navy contracts always come with plenty of drinking, but this will work out well this time around. I have to save as much money as possible so there'll be less money for partying anyway and going out. Plus I need the money for scootering!

I weighed myself today to see my weight before I left to compare to when I get back. I'm 125, which is cool since it means I lost half a pound even after my crazy binge! Go me! See, this is what I mean, even with that I'm still doing good! So my goal is to not gain. I'm not going to hope for any weight loss, but I don't want to gain. Anyway, it's going to be a little messed up anyway, because I weigh Fridays, today is Wednesday and I get back on a Wednesday. And I won't be able to weigh myself on contract, so I won't have an "official" weigh in (as in, a Friday) until May 30th.

Well, I think that's long enough! Later!

Friday's weigh in, Saturday's binge

I forgot to report in on Friday! Anyway, I didn't lose anything, which I am taking as an accomplishment considering the low amount of exercise I did and the two pieces of cake and ice cream cake I went ahead and ate. And honestly, not losing off of 125.5 one week is NOT a big deal!

Ah, but Saturday. I was doing good with my points, like usual and then BAM! I couldn't stop eating! And with me it weird. I overeat things that aren't bad for me, like I had crackers and a bowl of high fibre cereal that I love! Anyway, I was pretty upset about it and at the point I just couldn't get myself to go to the gym and even my mom could tell. But I really wanted to go do something so me and her went for a walk. That was around 6pm and I didn't eat the rest of the day, or was hungry and when I went to bed I was 128lbs. So I thought, ok, nothing major. I'll probably go down a pound over night, then I'll have to work extra hard from now. I was 126.5 this morning so I went down 1.5, so I'm only 1 pound over, so this is good. I can get back.

In your face plateau!

After 5 frustrating weeks of being stuck at 130lbs, I have beaten the plateau! I LOST 4.5lbs!!!!!! Is that not insane? I can't believe it! My body was catching up on all these weeks it wasn't losing any weight!

PARTY!!! (at 5pm when I'm done my last exam!)

It's just not worth it anymore...

Nope, this isn't so post about me being discouraged about my weight or anything. I mean to say that all those unhealthy things I loved don't matter so much anymore. After you consider the alternative which tastes just as great, you realize that that sundae, hamburger, bag of chips, chocolate bar, etc., is just not worth the points. You could have an Egg McMuffin from McDonald's for some obscene amount of calories, fat and points (around 10 I think), or you could stay home and have the same thing (better in my opinion) for 4 or 5 points.

When I started Weight Watchers, I loved all those 100 calorie packs of snacks the Singles chocolate bars, Baked Lays, etc. Now, don't get me wrong, I still like to eat them but now I find that I'd rather have two cups of cantaloupe for two points than a little pack of Doritos for the same, or I'd rather mix a yogurt with a half cup of All-Bran for two points and skip the 100 calorie Cadbury bar. I'll have those things more so now when I end up with some extra points in the day or just for a treat now and then. And the thing is, that's all I need for a treat now. I never crave an entire chocolate bar anymore. 100 calories is just fine!

Watch out gym!

I'm really excited to get started back to the gym tomorrow. My exam is over at 11, and hopefully it won't take me till then anyway, and then I'm heading to the gym! I plan to double the time I normally spend in there, about an hour, so go for two hours and to go every day, especially with my Dominican trip coming so soon.

Everyone has been saying in the last few days how good I look and I love it. Everyone is either impressed or proud of me and it feels good. I still want to lose a few more though, mostly because of the trip. What I really need to do is tone and I posted about this in my Bluekaffee.com journal and someone I know from high school commented and said that he's a certified personal trainer if I need any tips. So I PMed him and said I'm really trying to work on my abs and arms but am not sure on the best way to do it, so we're meeting Monday at the gym and he's going to help me out. So hopefully this plus every day in the gym will get me to where I want to be for April 30th!

*screaming* Weigh In

Why am I screaming? Because I'm 130! AGAIN! WTF! Week 4 at 130! This cannot be happening! ARGH! Well, Saturday when I'm done all but one exam, the gym better watch out, cause I'm going to be hitting it hard!

Goals and the scale

My scale and water goals are going really well, but my gym goal not so much. Papers and exams just cast a great big shadow over your life and you feel bad doing anything but studying and writing. On Tuesday I didn't do much in the way of exercise. I walked to the grocery store and that was probably about 20 minutes in total. Today was pretty good: I walked to and from Queen's College (20 mins), walked to and from my mom's work (about 30 mins), and went for a 30 minute walk with mom. I think that this Saturday after my exam I'm going to try and restart my goal. I think it's more realistic then. I have one more exam, but not till the 18th and it's really easy. So I'm not worried. I really want to tighten up a bit before Dominican!!!!

Andrea took our scale out of the bathroom. We both think it's not working right and it's better that we're (or me really) not getting on it all the time seeing messed up numbers. I'm staying at my own house Thursday night so I'll be able to use our scale Friday morning. Hoping to see some good numbers!

Weekly goals update and today

So here were the goals:
1. Don't go near the scale until next Friday
2. Drink tons of water
3. Go to the gym daily

And here are the results so far:
1. Got on the scale only once! (I also think our scale is messed up. My friend thinks it is too. I was 132.2 this morning and that's just not possible after Friday, I know it's not. I'd feel it. I'll be at my own house Friday morning so I'll weigh there).
2. I have drank soooo much water! And it's helping with hunger too!
3. I went on Saturday, but not Sunday. However, I did everything I do at the gym at home. I did all my mat work on my Yoga mat and went for a run. I don't think I'll get there today and if I don't, I'll do what I did yesterday.

So far, so good I think.

It's 2:18pm today and I have 4 points left! I had 6 before lunch and then met mom for lunch at around 12:45. Lunch was great and healthy, but at the same time it was about 10 points. I'm not too worried though, I'm still full and I have lots of low point and filling things I can eat. For supper I'm thinking beans and salad for two points and some grapes and 2 slices of WW bread for a point each later on in the evening.

Weigh in and Hungry Girl

Well, another Friday has come and gone with no loss. Still 130. I guess I should count myself lucky for not gaining, but it still sucks. I have a feeling this week will be different though. 3 presentation and 2 final papers are out of the way and classes have ended for the semester. This leaves me with 2 papers and 3 exams, but with much more room to breathe. I have a few goals to make for this week:

-Don't go near the scale until next Friday
-Drink tons of water
-Go to the gym daily

I just really started these today and already I can feel the difference. On Thursday I went to the gym and left with a headache and felt like I was going to throw up. I think it was dehydration. So today, before I went to the gym at 12, I had 4 glasses of water and I was able to stay for longer and never felt sick. Another side effect? Less hunger! I'd heard that drink more water works for that, and that sometimes when you're hungry it's just your body telling you your dehydrated. Silly me, I thought there's no way that when I'm hungry that drinking water will help! Well, of course not! Overall the water helps! 6:45 and I'm just getting hungry now and have 11 points left! When my hair is dry I'm going to the grocery store to buy some stuff to make an omelette because I've been craving one for days. In the meantime, I'll have a granola bar.

I discovered Hungry-Girl.com a few days ago and what an amazing site! I signed up for the newsletter right away! So many low point food options, and a lot of alternatives for normally insanely point high foods. Definitely check it out!

Oooh, one more thing. I'm going to Montana's for a friend's birthday on the 25th, right before I go to the Dominican on the 30th, and I thought, oh no, how am I going to do this! But, I found Montana's nutritional info and did up the points for everything! I could get the chicken tenders, fries and just a taste dessert for 26! Very much within my 35! Woohoo!

Not good, not good.

I give no excuses and have no good reasons. I went so far off track this weekend that I'm disgusted with myself. If I didn't have to stay up and work on a presentation, I'd go to bed so tomorrow would come faster and I could get back on track faster. Because I need a new day to start over.

Shed 10 by April 25th update

Well, two days after I made my goal, I think it's time for an update.

Monday:
-I stayed within my points, and used two of my four activity points. I may have earned more, but I'm never really sure about those.
-Attended an hour of Cardio Kick Boxing at MUN. And OW!

Tuesday:
-I used up and will stay within my points range for the rest of the day.
-I didn't make it to the gym today, but I made sure to walk to and from school (45 minutes each way) and later on I'm going to do my Yoga DVD and some ab exercises.

And I know I shouldn't weigh outside of Friday morning, but I was so curious this morning and couldn't help myself. I was 128.6! Here's hoping for that minus 0.6 on Friday!

Goals for the week

I'm only 2 pounds from reaching my goal and I want them gone asap, and I'm going to try for my weigh-in on Friday! So my goal is this: despite the massive amount of work to do in the next two weeks for final papers and presentation, take at least an hour every day to exercise. Monday-Friday at the gym and Saturday and Sunday to walk.

I know I said in my last post today that I would set mini-goals after I hit 128, but I think I'm setting a new goal of 120 after I get to my first goal, and I want to try and get there before the Dominican trip. I have 5 Fridays before then, so this equals out to 2 pounds per week. I think I can do it. If I keep to my exercise goal and walk to school whenever I can, I really think I can do it. Because I already lose 1-1.5lbs per week with minimal physical activity, so I think my goal is attainable! I can do it!

Late weigh in and more

Andrea finally decided to buy a scale yesterday, so I weighed this morning, even though it was two days after my normal weigh in day and on a different scale. Still, I think it was pretty accurate as it said I was 130! I lost another 1.5 then! Woohoo! I can't believe that I need to lose only 2 more pounds to get to my goal and only 1.5 to say I loast 20 pounds! Wow, I'm so proud of myself, I've been trying to lose weight for years and I've finally done it. Once I get to 128, I'm going to start making mini-goals. Even now I'm very happy with my weight, but after 128 I'm going to go with 3 pound goals I think, because I don't need to lose much more and it's hard to gauge how much. I'm trying to lose as much as possible before April 30th when I go to the Dominican because I of course won't be counting my points down there! There will be many swims to the bar and tasty trips to the buffet! Mmmm. But I don't think I can gain more than 5lbs at the most down there. That's how much I gained over Christmas, and I ate like crap then!

I'm just waiting on turkey dinner now and I have 10 daily points left and 15 extras, so I think I'm safe. And my mom thought of herself and me when she was going to make cake and then decided not to. Good for her.

Oh, and good news! Capn' Crunch is 2 points for 1 cup! I'm so excited! Most sugary cereals are 2 points per 3/4 of a cup, and even the Vanilla Almond Special K is 2 points per 3/4 of a cup! It was very exciting. Seriously.

I'm hoping to make a trip to Sobey's tomorrow to get a few things. We live close to Dominion but I don't like it much. Compliments, the Sobey's brand, has a lot of really great better-for-you foods, plus it's cheaper than that name brand stuff. They have 1 point fudgesticks, orange swiril and raspberry swirl ice cream bars, and a great line of pizzas. The pizzas are small, but for two people, a half each is 7 points! I also need to pick up more cans of beans. Two points for a half a cup and that is filling! And they're tasty! We also need some more spray butter. That stuff is a life saver!

Well I think it's almost time for some turkey! Happy Easter!

Weigh in and other issues!

I stayed at my own house last night originally so I could get to the doctor, but now since I couldn't get an appointment, I just felt like staying since I had planned it. Anyway, being home I got to weigh. I lost 1.5 pounds! Now this is spread over two weeks since I didn't weight last week, but that's great considering my shameful weekend. It really was my worst since I started Weight Watchers. But I'm actually on track to where I had planned to be because of my 2.5 loss a few weeks go which is now making up for my -1.5 in two weeks. I've now lost 17 pounds! Wow! It's hard to believe. I'm gonna have to go halves on a scale for Andrea's though. Because I'm 131.5 and once I lose 2.5 more pounds, I have to go to 29 points per day!

Here's another issue. My dad has never liked this weight loss thing, no matter how hard I try to convince him that I really did have a few pounds to lose, that I'm not starving myself, that I actually eat far better than I did before Weight Watchers, and etc, etc. Now my mom has party jumped on the bandwagon with him. She does Weight Watchers too so she knows I'm not starving myself, but at the same time she tells me to stop losing weight and questions why I'm still weighing myself. Normally every Friday we tell each other about how we did that week but not anymore. If she doesn't want me weighing myself than too bad, I'm doing it anyway and not telling her.

Nothing to Eat

When you're conscious of what you're eating and trying to eat well and on the go, this can be really hard. I need to start bringing more food to school with me than I thought, I guess. I have to stay late today to go see one of my profs and I left my lat class 45 minutes ago starving. So off I went in search of a bag of backed chips, those being 2 points. There was not one vending machine with any in it and all the cafeterias are closed by this time. The food court is useless for finding some kind of healthy snack, where you have a range of foods ranging from pizza and burgers to french fries and cookies. The healthiest thing I could find was a measly cereal bar for 3 points, but I had to eat something. Only another 2 hours till I'm home.... *rumble rumble*

Catching up

I'm pretty much copying and pasting this from my Bootcamp Buddies forum post, because it works here too.

I didn't update last Friday because I have no scale now. I weigh at home, and on Friday mornings and so does my mom. The problem is, I temporarily moved out to my friend's house till April to keep her company because her roommate is gone. Her house if huge and she didn't want to live here by herself. I also had major computer problems lately and with the temporary move I had no internet for a while.

I can say with pretty good confidence though that I'm pretty sure I survived my weekend. I didn't end up drinking the Bailey's and instead had Light Mike's Hard Lemonade. I was very excited when I found them. Even though I couldn't weigh, I was at my house on Saturday afternoon and decided to weigh and it should 133, the same as last week. Which is good since I normally weigh in the mornings. So hopefully that means I lost something.

Oh but this weekend. Oh boy. I have to admit it, it's weighing on my conscience! Last night my friend had a dessert and snack pot luck. I was doing great. I had 30 points to work with, had a few cookies some baked chips, salsa, those things. BUT THEN! But then my friend came with Mars Bars Rice Cripsie squares which were the best things I've tasted in my life, and then another friend showed up with Drumstick ice cream cake and then I tasted the new best thing ever in my life.

This morning we went to Cora's for breakfast where I used 19/21 points and ate 2 Oreo's to cover off those last 2 points. I had 2 forkfuls of that ice cream cake, a piece of leftover angel food cake and a banana. BAD ME.

I'm staying at my house Thursday night because I have to go see the doctor Friday morning and it's just down the road from my actual house so I'll be able to weight myself then. I of course will easily be able to stay on my points for the rest of the week, but do you think lowering my points a point or two will help? Since this will be my last kick at the cat to get to my goal (5lbs by Patty's Day, Friday for me. It's a challenge on the forums), and because I really want to get back on track. I also am planning on walking to school on Monday and Wednesday morning if it's nice out. I've never done the walk before but I think it would only take an hour at the most.

Set your sights on healthy eating!

This is the military's health slogan. Sure, it sounds good, but it is extremely hypocritical. It's extremely hard to eat healthy when I'm working. When I go on contracts over the summer, usually around 4 months, I gain weight. The most I've gained is 10 pounds. In four months, that's just not healthy. And I know it's the fault of my eating over the summer because when I come home and start eating normally, I lose it all.

Try setting your sights on healthy eating when you walk into the mess hall to find:
-the ever present dessert counter
-the ever present smell of deep fryer
-the menu containing items such as hot dogs and pub baskets
-the huge portions that get shovelled onto your plate (This is the worst. Sometimes (a lot) when there's not much there I want to eat, I usually just ask for the rice and head to the salad bar. But when you ask for rice, they seem to think you want your plate covered in it)

My unit in the city is terrible for the bad eating. Normally at our stand easy at 9:00pm we have soup but they sometimes like to cook other things:
-pizza
-hot dogs
-fries
-fried chicken
-taters

9:00 at night too! What are they thinking????

Being on ship is always hard. They have exercise equipment, but when you're not working, you're usually sleeping, because work is very exhausting on ship. They serve much of the same crap, the huge portions and the endless desserts. But it's worse because you're on a little ship with no time to use the exercise equipment. You can just go for a walk because it takes about 10 seconds to get from one end of the ship to the other!

[/end navy rant]

Another week, another loss!

I lost 2.5 pounds this week! I didn't do anything different though, not that I could tell anyway. Maybe it's the gym. I mean, I went the week before but that was my first time back in a while so I guess it would take a while for my body to get used to it again. I didn't go on Friday. I went shopping instead! Everything I bought was a small, except this one sweater which they didn't have any smalls in. It felt so good!

Living at home is so hard sometimes while doing Weight Watchers when nobody else is doing it (or following it properly, aka mom). I have 8 points left today and my mom has ribs out cooking for supper. Ribs! Really though. I think I could eat two and then have no points left. What is she thinking?!

I can make something else for myself, which I will do, but last night my dad seriously accused me of not eating! He said I'm going away to nothing! He made me so angry! He's always telling me not go go anorexic on him, but sort of joking, but this was just so uncalled for. I know he's my dad and with anorexia being really common and all that he can worry about me, but I think after knowing me for 21 years, he can trust that I wouldn't do that. I've always said I would never have the will power to be anorexic because if I get hungry, I eat. Except now, I eat veggies rather than a bag of chips, or a big bagel or something not so healthy. Don't get me wrong, I still eat those things, I just eat baked chips and small bagels and sometimes indulge myself in a regular bag of chips. Since I started WW in November I've only had 3 bags of Miss Vickie's salt and vinegar chips, my favourite chips!

SO THERE! Take that dad!

Doing good!

I feel like I am anyway, though I did miss pilates today. See, I'm on midterm break and normally I go to pilates on my two hour break. Since I have no car, I would have to take an hour bus ride there, do the hour long class and take an hour long bus ride home. Plus it was 72km/h winds and rain all day. I'm back in school Thursday, so I'll only miss one class. I've been doing my MWF gym though.

Check out my weight loss ticker above! Cool, no? I like it. And 8 more pounds to go! I almost don't believe it! I wonder what I'll be like at 128! If I lose 1 pound a week, then by April 11th I will be at 128 and then we'll see if I should keep going or not. I get 21 points a day, but once I go to 129 I'm supposed to go to 20 points. I don't think I will though. I'm going to try keeping at 21 points and see what happens.

I have 4 points left, after supper! Here's what I had:

Porridge: 2 points
Omlette and English Muffin: 4 points
Popcorn: 1 point
Cereal: 2 points
Spaghetti: 8 points (my mom's sauce has ground beef in it so I add two points.

I'm not sure what I'm going to use my 4 point on tonight, but I'm envisioning some baked Tostitos and salsa, and 20 cinnamon hearts, because those are 1 point for 20! haha

Another one bites the dust!

Another pound that is! New total: 12.5 lbs! I was so excited because I didn't think I'd lost any this week, but I have prevailed! :D I managed to stick to my gym schedule this week! I did my Monday-Wednesday-Friday morning workout on my own, and on Tuesday and Thursday I went to pilates class and did my morning/evening yoga. I feel really good!

I'm always glad for Fridays because I get my bonus 35 points back. I'm going to try and manage them as well as possible this week because I'm going out Sunday night (I'm on midterm break) so I'll need points there. And I'm going to a movie tonight and I can't pass up the popcorn!

Tall, non-fat caramel macchiato, please!

Except I forgot the non-fat part, and remembered at the end of my drink. It ended up being 7 points! 7! This left me with 4 for the day, at 2:00pm, with no extra points and my weighing day tomorrow. What to do? Make some zero point soup and have a salad! I also had a fruit and yogurt parfait which used up the 4 points. Gotta remember the non-fat part! That brings it down to only 3 points!

I don't think I lost any weight this week, but I don't care because I feel a lot better and like I've gotten back on track. I started back to the gym on my Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule (yup, going tomorrow morning!), I'm doing pilates, which I love, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and doing yoga at home in the morning and evening. I absolutely love the yoga and pilates. I feel more toned already from the pilates and I'm sleeping much deeper with the yoga. It's a beginners DVD which is more for relaxation and flexibility, but I love it. I invested in new yoga clothes and a mat too!

Well, I'm off to do some yoga, I'll be back in the morning with the results of my weigh in!

Extra points

Sometimes I have to wonder about those 35 extra points you get per week with Weight Watchers. I'm thinking about cutting mine in half, now that I'm down to a relatively low weight, because I think they're starting to hinder my weight loss. Now whenever I use them, I feel like crap, like I overate way too much. Either way, my 35 points are pretty much gone. I think I have 2 left. Hopefully going back to the gym tomorrow will help me feel better!

My first post!

Even though I started losing weight back on November 4th, I still wanted to start this. Mostly as a way to just talk about what I'm doing to lose weight, whether or not anyone is reading it. I'm doing Weight Watchers points and it really works, and I still get to eat every kind of food! I know it sounds like a commercial, but it's true! I'm going to the Dominican in 11 weeks and this trip was what really got me motivated to really try and lose weight - so I'll look good in my bathing suit! haha! I've always wanted to lose the bit of extra weight I have though, but the trip is a good motivator. So far I've lost 11.5 pounds and I'm looking to lose about 8-10 more before the trip. About a pound per week, and I know I can do it!

I'm starting a gym routine - Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and Saturdays if I can. I'm doing this for a few reasons. One, I want to be in good shape, and have some tone. Two, after losing 11.5 pounds and not being overweight to begin with, my weight loss has been getting much harder and I think I need the exercise to supplement the points system. And three, I need to keep up my fitness for my job.

Yesterday I went out grocery shopping with a friend and ended up buying some of my own stuff, but stuff that was all points-wise. I bought nothing over 2 points. The most exciting thing was the Weight Watchers bagels! The bread is easy to find but this is the first time I've seen the bagels. Since I only get 21 points a day, and bagels are 6 points without the toppings, I haven't really had many since I started, and I love bagels. But these are two points! Here's what I bought, along with their points values:

-4 bags of Weight Watchers bagels (2)
-Package of Weight Watchers wraps (1)
-Strawberries (1 per 1&1/2 cups)
-A big container of vanilla yogurt (1 per 1/2 cup)
-Philly Roasted Red Pepper cream cheese (1 per tbsp - this stuff is AWESOME)
-Philly Strawberry cream cheese (1 per tbsp)
-2 of those Campbell soup on the go things (1)
-Spritzer salad dressing (0!!!)
-Quaker Apples and Cinnamon and Mixed Berries oatmeal (2 per package)
-Mini bags of popcorn (1)
-Ice cream sandwiches (2)
-2 cases (24 cans) of diet lemon iced tea ($1.99 each!) (0!!!)

Not bad, not bad! I came home and put it away, making sure to mark everything that wasn't labelled with Weight Watchers (and the cream cheese) with a note saying that it was for me and my mom ONLY (she's doing Weight Watchers too). My brother and my dad know not to eat anything with a Weight Watchers logo, but otherwise its fair game to them if I don't mark it.

Well, I think that's enough for a first entry! Bye!