Day 4 on Weight Watchers
Thanks for the kind words guys!
One of the big issues for me in the past was I was very secretive about what I ate. I'd eat things in the kitchen while making tea for the rest of the people in the house, or I'd eat chocolate in my bedroom when I lived with my mum. Now I wanna be honest about what I eat. It's hard to be, especially last weekend when I did so badly, I was back to scoffing grapes from the fridge, and last Sunday I ate a biscuit while I was cooking the dinner, and while I was eating it I was listening to hear was anyone gonna see.
It's also hard to post here what you ate, because you're opening yourself up to the judgement of other people, and if someone left a really cruel message like "You're such a pig, you're going to be fat forever, and get diabetes, and a heart attack, and never have babies, and get left for a slimmer woman.." it'd be devastating. Even tho I know Mini'd kick them off the site, I'm still a bit scared of that happening.
Yesterday was another good day, which I was especially pleased about because it was a day that could easily have gone badly.
Breakfast: Maintenance bar and tea with skimmed milk (4 Points)
Lunch: Hummus, pitta, crudites, WW Yoghurt (3.5 Points)
I was having the boyfriend's parents over for dinner. But I was doing a root canal on a molar in my afternoon clinic so the evening was a bit rushed.
But then it turned out they were going to be late...an hour late...and I was starving! So I had a WW jelly, a M&S Count on us...raspberry mousse, and a WW vanilla yoghurt (2 points)
When they finally showed up, the father was drunk, and the mother so busy giving him filthy looks that she was not the best company...I nearly lost it, but I just figured that I didn't need to worry about the quality of the food I served them, as they weren't going to notice. I talked to my bf, and his brother for most of the night, just talking to his parents when his father made a drunken comment that everyone else ignored, and to the mother when she remembered that she was supposed to be talking.
I served roast chicken, boiled potatoes, roast parsnips, peas with onion, lettuce and mint, steamed asparagus, and gravy.
Everything I used was organic which means I there was less fat in the chicken, I followed Nigella Lawson's roast chicken recipe and only used the smallest amount of oil. Potatoes were boiled and not roasted. I used the smallest amount of oil on the parsnips, and only a little butter in the peas to stop burning.
I removed all the skin from the chicken before serving, I took my portion of gravy from the dish before adding the chicken jus to it, so all I was having was bisto and water. I ate mainly asparagus, and just had a little of the roasted parsnip and peas.
For desert I served them all homemade Rhubarb Crumble, with custard or ice-cream. I had some Rhubarb stewed with Splenda, and some low fat custard.
I also had a small glass of white wine, and stopped after one. (Dinner = 8.5 Points)
I had biscuits to serve with the tea, but I had a packet of my Weight Watchers Cookies (1.5 Points)
Then, when they eventually left I had a cup of tea and a WW Caramel Bar with Paul, half comiserating, half laughing. (1.5 Points)
So I ate a total of 21.5 Points, 0.5 Points over my basic allowance, and I had 2.5 activity points yesterday. So I still managed to bank 2 and my bank is up to 10 Points today. Which is good because I'm going out for dinner tonight (don't worry, I have a plan), and there's a family lunch on tomorrow (I'm still lacking a plan for that, but will have one by tomorrow).
I feel very proud of myself for doing well yesterday. I really feel like I can do this (hopefully I'll still be saying that on Sunday night!)
I got on the scales this morning, and it's down again to 157.7, so that's down 4.5lbs since my last official WI, but I won't update my signature until Monday...probably safer that way...also I'm not going back to the pharmacy until Monday...
Have a great weekend everyone, and stay strong!
Love Guen
