After my first week I was thrilled. I really watched what I ate, and drank alot of water and lost 6 pounds.

At today's weigh in I only lost 1/2 a pound. Well it is better than nothing. At least I did not gain any weight over the past week. I really wasn't able to track my points as effectively because many things I ate I could not figure the points out for. (I mean how much is deer steak?)

I also ended up going to a pizza buffet one day at lunch, and well you know..You gotta get your money's worth once you pay for a buffet meal. I mean $6.00 for 2 little pieces of pizza is just wrong.

So this week, I plan to get back on task. More water, and I want to lose at least one more pound.

That will bring me to the 5% of my body weight being lost. (Plus if I would do some formal exercise it might help.)

I was so excited yesterday to learn I had lost 6 pounds my first week on Weight Watchers.

This is a picture of 5 pounds of fat-that I am no longer carrying around!

I have really been doing good this past week. I still eat what I want, I just eat less. So instead of 4 pieces of pizza I have 2. Instead of 4 cookies I have 2. (And I have been adding in carrots since they are free points.) So that adds one more veggie to my daily amount.

The one thing I don't like about the program is that activity points don't give much. My normal weekly cardio would only give me 2 activity points. Meaning I could realiistically have 2 extra apples during my week.  (Sigh)  And I don't know if they count gardening and household chores.

With Spark People you get credits for all those things.

It seems so ironic, that I can now look back at my "fat pictures" (these were pictures that were taken of me that I felt were not flattering and I looked fat). But now when I look at the pictures I think I looked good, compared to the way I look now.

I guess it is all in the perspective in which you see it.  

                                                                      taken September 2008.  

Taken January 2009