Well, yesterday was weigh-in day. Not such good results this week by any means. I lost one lousy pound. On the one hand, it's not surprising, because I didn't have a very good weekend. I don't know why, but I was in a foul mood all weekend, and that translated into a complete lack of motivation to cook, plus cravings for unhealthy food. Saturday night I decided to just go ahead and eat fast food. I had 30 daily points still available, and all 49 of my weekly points. One of the things that the weekly points are supposed to be there for is so that if you have a craving or a slip, you have space to include that in your program without feeling like you've fallen off completely. I used 10 points of my weekly allowance Saturday evening, and I didn't feel too bad about it. Unfortunately, Sunday was another bad day, and not only did I have Burger King for dinner again, I also ate an entire sleeve of Ritz crackers. That took another 20 points of my weekly allowance, and made me feel pretty rotten about myself.
On the other hand, however, the single pound is a little frustrating. I still had 19 of my weekly points left, even after my terrible weekend, and I started exercising last week. I walked 10 minutes on the treadmill at 2 mph four days last week, and I was rather proud of that. I was afraid that having not exercised during the period between stopping Atkins and beginning WW might have resulted in losing all the advances I'd made in increasing my exercise time from 5 minutes to 12 minutes per session. Anyway, technically I stayed within the WW guidelines for the week and didn't get good results. I know that the technicality doesn't really count, though. I had a bad weekend and I paid for it. I'm back on track now though.
It's been several days since I posted, so I'm not going to list my entire intake...I've already mentioned the worst part. Total points for each day were:
Thursday: 44 points
Friday: 54 points
Saturday: 66 points
Sunday: 76 points
Monday: 47 points
You guys have no idea how hard it was for me to admit to you how much I screwed up this weekend...it's even more embarrassing and humiliating to write it down and see it in black and white than it was to screw up in the first place. The deal I made with myself when I started this blog back in September was that I was going to be totally honest and accountable in it - about the bad things as well as the good. That's a large part of the point of writing it in the first place. When I do well I get to bask in the sound of your cheers, when I'm struggling but sticking to it I get to lean on your encouragement, and when I screw up royally...well, I have to admit it and take the scorn.
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