Ok don't everyone go hating me for this, but sometimes I actually have a hard time eating all my points in a day.
I have never been a person to sit around and eat all day or eat outrageous portions. But I started weight watchers a week and a half ago at a hefty 306 pounds. So I have a LOT of points...36 to be exact.
My problem has actually been eating all of my points. My question is, does it matter if I have to go to a fast food joint to use up all of my points? More than once in my first week I got to the end of the day with over 20 points, and had to go get something really unhealthy to get up to my points for the day. Someone at work told me she thought that was the wrong approach and that I should make sure to just eat more throughout the day. But I feel like I'm constantly eating, and still ending up with lots of points at the end of the day. The other day I had to actually go to a gas station and buy a candy bar, and still went to bed with 3 points uneaten.
I think that my first grocery shopping trip was a bit overzealous because I hear so many people complain that they don't have enough points so I only bought stuff that was SUPER low like 1 or zero points to snack on. This week when I go shopping I'm going to get more fruit and rice and stuff like that, which I know will help me get my points in. But is it actually harmful to use up points by eating greasy nasty food?
I lost one pound at my first meeting. I was hoping for more, but I was coming off a low carb diet and adding carbs back after a low carb has always caused immediate gain for me, so I'm thinking that one pound was good for my situation. I guess I will see next week how I do. I also joined a gym and have worked out more in the past week than I have in my whole life, and someone told me you can put on weight for a week or two after starting a workout routine. So I'm not upset about only losing a pound, I just want to make sure I didn't sabotage myself by eating most of my points at Taco Bell and Wendy's last week.