So I am switching my weigh in days at WW to Friday mornings. This is the meeting that is "Child Friendly" LOL! My boys can sit in the back playing on Dsi's and iPads while I get weighed in and hear the meeting. I use bribes. The playground will be their reward if they behave. If not, they've got some chores to do when we get home for mis-behaving. Usually though, they surprise me and are well behaved when I need them to be. So will keep my fingers crossed!
I'm excited for this weigh in. I've been doing very well. I've seen a big drop on my home scale. But I have no clue if my home scale is calibrated anywhere close to the WW scale. Either way, the numbers have gone down. Enough to make me smile really big.
I feel really good too. I feel proud that I've had the control to make the decision to make better choices. Normally I'd eat what I want to and then feel horrible guilt & belittle myself later. But the last week, I've made much better choices and I realized today that I haven't been beating myself up, because I've been eating right, that making those better choices have taken some stress off of me.
Even though you can eat anything you want with WW, as long as it fits within your points range, I've decided that sugar and refined carbs are a huge part of my problem. I've known this for a long time. I decided to really cut back hard on some of those things to give my body the chance to heal from all of the sugar and refined abuse. Those first few days were so hard. I kept finding myself wandering back and forth between the pantry, the fridge and the freezer. I'm so glad I found nothing there. I know that those cravings won't always be gone and that I'll be faced with them again and probably very soon. But just knowing that I feel so much better today than I did a few days ago because I cut some of these things out, really help put things into perspective for me.
I went out all day to a local water park with my boys. We ate lunch before we went. I made sure I did. Later in the afternoon, we did go get a snack. Normally I would get nacho's with lots of cheese and splurge on a soda. I ended up choosing a grilled chicken salad. My son did get the nachos. I had one. I chewed it for a long time. I really tasted it. And then I decided that it was never really as good as I thought it was. I was just shoving junk in my mouth. I enjoyed my Grilled Chicken salad today. I also forgot to bring my drink with me (Crystal light lemonade junkie here) and the only soda I really like is an ICE COLD COKE (from the can is my vice!) and I had to choose what to drink from the soda fountain. In the end, I chose Diet Pepsi, which I HATE, detest. But in the end, it was better to drink the diet pepsi than to give in to the sugar laden orange or rootbeer. I did bring bottled water with me, but it was warm. YUCK. Won't drink warm water! LOL! The Jen from last week would have easily taken the orange or rootbeer over the nasty diet pepsi. Lesson learned.... never go anywhere without MY water bottle and to go stix of Crystal light lemonade!
Anyway, my thoughts are all over the place. I'm on a dieters high right now. I'm on a roll and I feel good. I'm going to remember this feeling so that when I'm tempted to make a bad choice or something that falls out of my points range, I'm going to remember how good I feel about me and the choices I've made lately.
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