Starting Over

I joined WW yesterday. I did it. I committed to spending $40 a month on losing weight and learning how to eat. I weighed 196.8 pounds! It was quite a shock but I guess I needed that slap in the face.

Being at home with the girls, I have access to any food I want whenever I want. This is good and it is bad. I tend to eat when I'm lonely, bored, and upset. I know that but it doesn't change it.

However, now I feel equipped with a plan! Yesterday I did great. I stayed within my 25 points and ate more healthy things like a spinach salad with chicken and tons of veggies for dinner and a quesadilla with less cheese and fat free refried beans. I found both meals to be very filling and satisfying.

I still ate right up to bedtime because I had enough points to do that. I had some Special K with 1% milk and then later a small bowl of leftover salad to use up 3 more points. I even had chocolate - four hershey kisses and one fudgsicle. I didn't feel like I was sacrificing and it was good.

This morning I fixed oatmeal with strawberries and blackberries. I had this instant kind but when I checked the points on that it was 4 and the regular old-fashioned was only 2 so that's what I chose. I think I'm learning about choices and options.

I didn't tell Billy because I know he'd think $40 a month is a lot and he'd tell me we can't afford that. Well, whatever. It's no more than I'd been spending on weekly visits to Chick Fil A.

I feel like I'm off to a great start and really plan to stick to this! Watch the pounds fall!