Week 4 Weigh-In

I lost this battle....

+2.6
Total weight lost to date: 7.8lbs.

Ugh.

But. Not at all surprising. I did it to myself. I struggled the entire week of 9/2 to 9/8 and maintained on the scale. I continued to struggle last week. I binged on Wednesday night. Got back on track Thursday. And then binged on Friday again. I stopped tracking at that point. Saturday actually wasn't TOO bad. I'm sure I ate well more than my allotted points, but it probably wasn't all that different than a normal Saturday. It's just that I usually have all 49 of my weekly points when it comes to Saturday (or most of them at least).

Anyway, I'm fine. I'm over it. I am totally back on track today. I started my day with an 8 mile run (earning 22 activity points) and have eaten a total of 39 points today. So, I used only 7 of those 22 points. Not at all bad. I've gotten into the habit of eating ALL my activity points on the day that I earn them...so not eating all of them today was a big step in the right direction.

I have planned my dinners for Monday-Wednesday so far this week. I've already tracked them into my tracker.

My goals this week are:

- NO wine until Saturday night (to celebrate my 11 year anniversary). And that is the ONLY wine I am allowed to have all week (I am learning this is a big trigger for me with my over-eating).

- Save at least 40 of the 49 weekly points until Saturday (and don't necessarily use them all on Saturday).

- Get back to snacking on fruit in between meals and in the evenings.

- Try to end this week like the first 2.....use all activity points and use only 29 of the weekly points. This seems to give me a buffer and still lose weight. We'll see if the first 2 weeks was a fluke, or if this is the right "recipe" for my weight loss.

I think that's enough for one week. If I go back to those basics I should see a nice loss on the scale. I realize that a lot of what I gained was probably water weight, so hopefully it'll come off as fast as it came on! Oh...and I put the scale away too. It only worked positively for me last week because it was saying what I wanted/needed/thought it should say! It didn't work this week because it kept going up..hence the binge on Friday. I need to base my food decisions on what is healthy, and not on what the scale is saying! So, for now, it's away. I will only be weighed when I go to a WW meeting. If I can succeed in this, it'll be the first time I've ever done it! The closest I've ever gotten to giving up the scale would be weighing myself at home right before going to the meeting so I can know what to expect. I'm going to take that away now....go into each meeting totally blind. Should be interesting!

And with that I'll leave you all tonight. Here's to a great week!