Merlin of Chaos

This week the scale says down 1 pound; I was better this week, so I feel that the reduced weight loss is carryover from my dubious behavior the prior week.

My belt is a notch looser now, and I can wear a pair of jeans I had become reluctant to wear, though by the end of the day they're still feeling a touch tighter than I would like. These are both good signs. esmerel has remarked that she can see the difference, though of course I can't actually see it. The belt being looser is the only real indication that I am able to perceive.

On Saturday I had a story I was thinking I needed to tell on this report, but of course I can't remember it now. How very typical.

RttW loss: 7 pounds. I'm now just under the 1.5 pound per week mark, so a week or two of being extra good to try and 'catch back up' may be merited -- it's only an extra .5 to be on the average, so it isn't much catching up to do. It'll be much worse when I hit a plateau. Last time I hit a plateau right around 264, so I would be unsurprised to see one hit in the next couple of weeks.

Despite having a bad week, which included getting sick and consoling myself with pizza and ice cream (and not low fat ice cream either) I appear to still be down another pound. I don't feel like I managed to really be good all week, though at least 2 or 3 days were pretty good. But there were 2 days I just didn't count points, and I know i went way over.

Still a pound is good. Hopefully I can be better this week -- another .4 lb and I cross one of the magic 2nd digit lines which always makes a big mental difference when looking at the scale.

I need to schedule actually, really truly cleaning out the garage, so I can set the weight bench back up. I need to ensure I don't lose any muscle while I do this. Some light weight lifting 3 days a week should cover that.

My first week of actively being on weight watchers again (first time in a year -- I think over a year as my last couple of attempts were pretty halting) was, I think, mostly successful.

Weight Watchers redesigned their point tracker a little bit. In so doing, two important things happened:

• The number of points I have per day went up dramatically.


• The formula for calculating these points appears to no longer be available on the site. :/

I've actually been trying to work as though I had the number of points I am more used to rather than the points it told me (it gave me 40 points, last time I was at this weight I had 35) and as such I didn't even get into flex points. Until yesterday. Then we had not one but two unexpected friends drop by (which is wonderful, by the way, not a complaint) and we ended up going to La Perla which is delicious but has a relatively unhealthy burrito. I'm not sure how many points it was, and I only ate half the burrito, but I guessed it at 25 for the half I ate, which I'm hoping is on the high side. It's really hard to say though, because burritos can have a surprisingly wide range of points depending on exactly how the ingredients in it are prepared.

And then last night, after making a nice, healthy tilapia dinner, even with the burrito lunch I still had barely touched my flex points, so we broke out the lava cakes. That ate well into my flex points, but I didn't wake up hungry last night.

Which leads me to: I've been waking up hungry at least some of the time.

In any case, my weigh in this morning indicates I've lost an even 2 pounds. Not bad considering I felt like I was overeating with 40 points per day. And I expected that since this 2 lb loss would take me back across a 25 lb barrier (where the old formula changed points) I'd drop from 40, but it still has me at 40 points per day. Well. We'll see. I did pretty well at 35 points per day last time, it was only when I got down to 30 that I started having issues, and 28 is, I think, what threw me off the plan, because I wasn't able to adjust. So maybe the new numbers are better. Still, I'm targeting 35 and if I go into that 5 point cushion I don't feel bad. If I get results doing that, I will continue to do that.

Also, weightwatchers' site is kind of slow right now. :/