So after one of the nice people commented on my blog about my WW bagel fiasco, and how they had a lot of WW stuff at Wal-mart, I was psyched to get some.  JJ and I hung out all night, being jolly and doing what we do. Close to 3am rolls around and we are still up. Didn’t you want to go get your bagels at Wal-mart he asks me? Why yes I did! So we go to Wal-mart at 3am on a mission for my bagels.

We walk towards the bread aisle and I see a good sign. WW muffins, cookies, and cakes. Wow they have a lot more WW things than I have seen at other stores. We continue down the aisle. No bagels I ask a lady if they could be anywhere else. She tells me maybe they are frozen or in dairy.

So we walk around the grocery area, giddy with our late night jaunt. I put some WW Smart Ones in the cart to try. Pizza, enchiladas, calzone, a couple of desserts… yummy We walk towards the cheese area, I see that they have WW cream cheese. Well how nice of them to have WW cream cheese to put on WW bagels.. oh wait they didn’t have any… BUT next to the cream cheeses was a display of bagels. “The Alternative Bagel.”

They are by “Western Bagel” and they have a hand full of flavors. I got the Cinnamon Spice because I was looking forward to having my low fat Strawberry Cream Cheese for breakfast in the morning and this sounded like a nice pairing. I had forgotten my stupid WW points calculator, but these bagels say 110 calories on the front of the bag, they are smaller than the average mondo bagel, but not mini, I think this may be a go. Also they have to be refrigerated. I don’t know why. I refrigerate all my breads anyway because I find that they stay fresher. So I buy the bagels and other WW items. I figure if they are high in points JJ will eat them.

I get home and the first thing I do is calculate the bagels. 1 POINT!!!! How happy I was. We went to bed and listened to the birds chirp outside as they were waking up. It was 4am after all.

When I finally got up today I was excited to try my bagels. I figured I would have a bigger breakfast this morning… well early afternoon… than I usually do. I have been having a hard time using up all my points anyway. I have my normal Light Yoplait Yogurt for 2 points, though I saw WW had 1 point flavors at Wal-mart last night. Maybe when I have to limit more of my points I will switch to that. I had a banana for 2 points and then my bagel, toasted with less than a tablespoon of cream cheese. The cream cheese is 1 point for 2 tablespoons, but I don’t really like a lot of cream cheese anyway, so I just counted it as 1 point even though I used way less. And then the bagel for 1 point.

Daily Points: 35
Breakfast: Yogurt 2 points
Banana 2 points
Bagel 1 point
Cream Cheese 1 point
Points left: 29

I am getting pretty confused about this blogging site. What is “optional excerpt?” What are “trackbacks?” “Discussion?” “Post Password?” “Post Slug?” “Post Status?” Etc?

I was trying to see if there was a way I could put a signature after my blog. I want to put a ticker to show my weight loss journey but I can’t figure out how to do it so I will just put the ticker in this post for now. I haven’t gotten to choose a goal weight yet at Weight Watchers so I am going to put my 10% as my first goal.

Pretty spiffy! haha

So yesterday was JJ’s and my 6 month anniversary which is exciting of course, but I wasn’t like wanting it to be overly special or anything like that, just another day. Our year anniversary will be a celebration. He was like we should go to dinner and I was like yeah we can go to dinner if you want no problem. Let’s go to Applebee’s because they have the points on a section of their menu. I am not a huge Applebee’s fan, but I looked at the menu online and thought maybe the only thing I would want were the Weight Watcher’s quesadilla. So I looked up some points on a web-site online thinking maybe I will just get something that I used to get at Red Robins and have a good night. The points were so much though, like 20 something! Even 30 something! I haven’t used any of my extra weekly points yet so I debated just doing it. I told him that I really wanted to go out but I wanted to just do really well on Weight Watchers. I didn’t want to get back into old habits so quick even though with weekly points it would have been fine. I chose to make something at home and I am happy that I did. A small accomplishment.

Even though I feel I chose to make a better choice for dinner last night, after dinner and later on into the night I just was feeling discouraged… I had a doctor’s appt. earlier and I tried my hardest not to look at the scale, but I did and I couldn’t tell if I weighed more or less or what, it was so quick. My weight was on my mind all day. Had I lost, had I gained? Will this work for me? I weighed myself late after I ate my dinner and it said 282.5. Gaining a 10th of a pound.. grr.. I tried not to get down on myself though. I had a lot of water that day, it was after dinner, different time in the day than my original weigh in, etc.

Well today before I got in the shower I weighed myself. It was around 2pm so only a couple hours difference than my original weigh in. 277 point something… Yay.. hehe. I hope I still show a weight loss at my meeting on Tuesday. I just feel a new wave of strength though. This is a life style change after all.