Weigh-in: Year 3, Week 26
12-09-08
It’s been 2 1/2 years going to Weight-Watchers and I had hoped to be further along than I am now. I think I may be beating myself up too much, but I had thought I was doing good this week. Then I recall the dinner with family on Saturday night, lunch on Sunday at Cantina Laredo, etc. However, I don’t think that is all.
Weight-Watchers began a new program which combines the Flex plan and the Core plan into one, bringing together the best of both plans. So now I’m back to tracking points, but the emphasis is to eat more filling foods (foods that were on the core list), whole grains and lean meats. It’s been a while since I’ve tracked points, but I think I need to jumpstart this whole thing again.
And that brings me to what I was saying at first, I believe part of my problem was my activity points. You see, doing exercise allows you to “bank” additional points to be used in that day. I am almost certain I have not been using my points on those days (sometimes getting in a good run makes me want to be better in my food choices and so I don’t eat as much). Essentially, I may have been putting my body into starvation mode without realizing it.
For example, my run on Monday was 1 full hour of high-intensity (for me) running. I sweat the whole time. Based on the Activity Points slide rule, that gave me an additional 13 points to use that day. That is a LOT of points. I know I was watching what I ate on Monday for the most part and didn’t consume nearly that many points.
The other problem is that on the core plan, you are limited on the food choices and I have a difficult time sticking to just the items I should eat. Unfortunately, I was cheating a lot on the plan, because I had convinced myself that I was doing core and was just using my 35 weekly points sparingly. In some ways, I was keeping my body on a roller-coaster.
No more. Tomorrow is the beginning of the new program and I plan on sticking to it. Amy, my wife, is also looking forward to something new. We got our farmer’s co-op delivery today and have some new vegetables we have not actually purchased on our own willingly. Now that we have paid for them, we will figure out a way to use them (I’ve never cooked eggplant so that will be a challenge).
As for the Sugar Strike, I’ve been slacking a lot. It sounds like I’m contradicting my earlier statements about starving myself, but it’s only because one day is starvation and then the next is excess (“after all, I did really good the day before so I deserve a treat”). I’m going to limit my sugars to the Skinny Cow treats we bought this evening and that is it for the next week. I’m not putting back on another 7 pounds or more just like I did over a month ago. I refuse.
We now return to our regularly scheduled Sugar Strike now continuing (after a slight unintentional hiatus) for week four. Below is a list of this past week’s daily journey entries:
Starting weight: 319.0 lb
Previous weight: 268.0 lb
Current weight: 270.6 lb
Current loss/gain: +2.6 lb
Total loss/gain: -48.4 lb
Distance to 60: 11.6 lb
Distance to WW Goal: 20.6 lb
Cross-posted to WebCudgel.com
