Weigh-in #1

The day of reckoning, the moment of truth... Today is Monday and that means (♪ dun, dun DUN ♪) WEIGH-IN day!

Q. Did I stay within my WW points this week?
A. Yes (barely, and I used the whole weekly pool allowed, but still, yes).

Q. Did I make the best food choices possible with those points?
A. Definitely not.

Q. Did I drink enough water every day and eat all of my fruit and veggies?
A. Um, no.

Q. Did I get enough physical activity?
A. Surprisingly, I think that I did! I did a 4 mile walk on Wednesday and another walk, about 5 and half miles, on Sunday with my Avon Walk for Breast Cancer team. So, almost 10 miles for the week! I probably should have (could have, would have) squeezed in a third walk or some exercise sessions, but this is still a good first week for me activity-wise. I am pretty happy with myself on this point. I will build up the amount of activity gradually.

Q. Did I go to a social occasion on Saturday and eat high point foods and drink a lot of wine?
A. Yes.

Q. Did my 'monthly visitor' arrive less than one hour before weigh-in?
A. Of course! (Damn that 'Aunt Flo')!

So, how did I do? According to Weight Watchers, I lost a whopping 0.6 pounds this week. So, not Earth shattering, but still a loss. I was expecting 2-3 pounds and hoping for more like 4-5 pounds since this was my first week on program. However, I know my body and know that I it is very typical for me to gain a couple of pounds during lovely PMS time. WW predicts 1-2 pounds per week if you follow the program faithfully. Slow and steady wins the race, right?

I was glad to see that my home scale and the WW scale agree within a half a pound of each other. The week before I restarted WW, my home scale showed as high as 211 pounds the week and the doctor's scale clocked me at 214 on September 6th - yikes! So, I think it is safe to assume, that despite my meager WW showing today, I have actually lost somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-6 pounds over the last 2 weeks. But I don't want to be a cheater-pants, so I am going to just stick with my official WW weigh-ins for the purposes of my weight loss ticker on this blog. If my doctor shows my loss as even bigger, then, GREAT!

My goals for this week:

• Stay within WW points again, but make better food choices this week than I did last week (eat those veggies)!
• Drink more water (at least 6-8 glasses per day).
• Drink less wine - it uses up too many points!
• Walk at least 10 miles again this week.

I think that's it for now. I am not going to break any records, but I am off to a decent start, and that will do for now.