Day 4…
I’m feeling good today and determined to get through the next 146 days! Last night was tricky for me because it was my weekly date night with my boyfriend but we stayed in and I decided to spend my remaining daily POINTS on Merlot. I even banked 2 Activity POINTS which was nice. The gym kicked my ass yesterday and I felt super lightheaded afterward. I guess it’s just an adjustment period.
Tonight will be challenging for me because I’m going to a friend’s birthday dinner at a new Greek restaurant and the menu looks fab. I know cheese and wine will be covering the table and olive oil and bread and I know I’m at a point where I can no longer instantly gratify myself. I didn’t weigh myself this morning because I wasn’t at home but know if I even look too long at Saganaki, I will gain weight. So, tonight will be my first REAL challenge in a social environment and I just need to think about how I made excuses in the past to eat all of that food and am now dealing with the repercussions of my poor choices. I’m determined to resist temptation…at least solid temptation. I am forecasting some wine in tonight’s future and at 2:20, I have 15 points left for the day, am skipping out on the gym today because I’m in desperate need for a pedicure so I won’t have any Activity POINTS to use and not really sure I want to dip into my FLEX POINTS. The only thing on the menu I can eat is Greek salad and I’m positive its laden with olive oil and fattening feta. I guess I’ll ask for the dressing on the side and enjoy some wine.
I’ve realized with proper planning, diet sabotage is completely unexcusable. PLUS…I’m totally sick of being fat. Food isn’t worth feeling disgusting all day long.
OMG Greek food is my favorite next to Italian. I’m also doing WW. Good luck to you!
Dinners out are probably the worst thing. It seems like whenever I’m on a diet, no one else is. I just watch everyone else eat everything up without really giving though to how much fat they are actually ingesting.
BUT… nothing feels better than knowing that you behaved yourself in an otherwise high risk situation. We have tons of greek places around here and I love greek food. I was faced with a similar problem a couple of weeks back and I ordered a chicken brochet without rice or potatoes, asked for a double salad with dressing on the side. It worked out okay I guess. I always overestimate my points on night where I eat out a places where I have NO way to know the real point count.
But, you are absolutely right, PLANNING is the only way for WW to work. Because, in real life situations - we eat out, we snack we pick up things to eat on the spur of the moment, so it’s becomes really hard to keep track.
PLAN PLAN PLAN!!!!
Hey Laurie,
I couldn’t agree more. We had fleets of appetizers last night and I had a few olives, 1 calamari ring, 1 super thin slice of fried eggplant and about a tablespoon of hummus, and a small piece of feta which ended up being more POINTS than my dinner. I ordered an appetizer as my entree of four grilled jumbo shrimp in lemon juice and herbs so I felt like I could “taste” a couple of the appetizers. I ended up dipping into my FLEX points (using 12 of the 32 I had remaining for the week) but didn’t feel that bad about using them. It is really difficult to estimate how many calories are in one ring of calamari (about an inch and half in diameter) so I’m just rounding everything up and counted it as a point. I was going to order a greek salad but think the feta and olive oil would have been more than I ate with the very plain shrimp and the “tastings”. The good news is I’ve lost 4 lbs this week and this is only Day 5.
I know the loss won’t continue at this rate but it’s still nice to see the number on the scale going in the right direction!
Yep, PLANNING. I just keep reminding myself of that!!!