I’m finally heading in the right direction. Boy this is slow going though. On May 11 I was at 196.2 and today, 2 weeks later, I’m at 195.6. That may not seem like much progress but I’m happy when the scale is going down not up.
The first week after my last update I made some mistakes. First it was the Mother’s Day dinner at our favorite vegan Thai restaurant. I haven’t eaten there since my birthday last July, so it was high time. But I definitely blew my points there. Later in the week there was a buffet breakfast, a yummy but high fat raw meal with Matt Monarch and Angela Stokes, and then a raw potluck. You should have seen me at the potluck, though. I think I was the only person who had white space on her plate. 35 people came, and so did about 25 dishes! I took 2 nori rolls that we brought, some corn salad, fruit salad, and thai slaw. And I had a piece of raw chocolate pie. If I wasn’t watching what I was doing, I could have easily eaten 3 times that amount, but I really reigned myself in. At the end of that first week I weighed 197.2! A week later I was at 195.6, so I know I had a really good second week.
I’m very comfortable with the Weight Watcher point plan now. I’ve found a lot of things to eat that are low in points but provide high satiety. Here’s an example of a typical day for me.
Breakfast:
3 slices of veggie bacon = 1.5 points
Apple (or other piece of fruit) = 1.5 point
Mid Morning Snack:
Carrot = 0 points
Lunch:
Amy’s Tamale Verde meal (black bean tamale and Spanish rice) = 6.5 points
2 low- fat, low-calorie vegan chocolate chip cookie = 1 points
4pm Snack:
4 vegan chicken nuggets with bbq sauce = 4 points
Cherries = 1 point
Dinner:
Vegan BBQ Beef sandwich = 5 points
Corn Creole = 1.5 points
Dessert:
Fat free berry sorbet = 2 points
Total for the day: 24 points
I’ve found a wide variety of foods that work well for me. Vegan hot dogs are only 1 point each. The vegan bacon is only a half a point for one slice. Fruit works well for snacks. And I found these fantastic vegan cookies from a local café that contain fruit puree instead of fat and sugar and they are amazing and extremely low in points. I’m trying to incorporate more vegetables into the diet, and I’ve been doing more cooking, but I have quite a bit of room for improvement there.
I’m finally over my cough so I started going back to the gym. I’ve been doing the elliptical machine for 30 minutes. I have to start the weight training again. For some reason I don’t want to, even though I remember how much I was enjoying it. Maybe I feel like I’d have to start all over again after losing 4 weeks to illness.
On Weight Watchers you can get some extra food points for exercising, but I don’t take them because sometimes during the day I grab a few crackers or chips on my way back to my office, so I figure I’m using up my activity points with BLT’s (bite, lick, tastes) of random foods.
So, overall I’m happy, and I’m just going to keep right on going. I’ll update again in 2 weeks.
