Hooray!

Hooray! I lost 3.2 pounds! Definitely encouraging, and I can use all the encouragement I can get right now. I can put up with looking and feeling ridiculous while flailing around with my Wii controllers, stressing out while trying to create a weekly meal plan for the first time, and even with the refrigerator breaking down again after just a week - as long as I'm losing weight.

This meal plan thing is rough, though. I did finally manage to get a week's worth of meals figured out on Saturday, and tonight will be my first try at a new recipe I found on the WW site. When I read the recipe it sounded pretty good, so I'm going to ignore the contradictory comments and just make it and hope it's edible. Making the grocery list once I got the meal plan figured out was almost harder than figuring out the meals, though. That's a lot of ingredients to write down at once, pretty overwhelming. I've got a couple of plans for different ways to do it this week so that hopefully it won't be quite so bad, because I was so overwhelmed by it by dinnertime on Saturday that I ended up going off plan.

The weekend's consumption:

Saturday
Breakfast: Oatmeal, banana - 10 points
Lunch: Salad, tomato-beef broth - 14 points
Snack: None
Dinner: 2 Burger King double cheeseburgers, large fries - 40 points
Dessert: None
Total: 64 points

Sunday
Breakfast: Oatmeal - 10 points
Lunch: Salad, tomato-beef broth - 14 points
Snack: Apple - 0 points
Dinner: Sauerkraut & sausage - 21 points
Dessert: Pudding with Cool Whip - 4 points
Total: 49 points

So obviously Saturday night wasn't so good. It wasn't horrible either, though...I hadn't had a ton of points during the day, so even with going way off program for dinner, I only ended up 9 points over my daily allotment. That was covered with quite a lot to spare by my 49 weekly flex-points, and I went right back on my program Sunday morning and didn't beat myself up about falling off too badly. Sunday I ended up 6 points short. Having my meal plan in place should hopefully mean I don't have many more days where I'm more than a couple of points off my target. We'll see how it goes!