The weekly weigh in, week 16

I knew this wasn't going to be a good week. For the first time in a long time, I really did some emotional eating. It's a good thing that I'm not buying a lot of junk food, because that is what limited my overindulgence. In another diet program, one of the slogans was HALT. Don't let yourself get too Hungry, too Angry, too Lonely or too Tired before you eat. I got sick of slogans and left that group, but this piece of good advice stuck. I just didn't follow it.

The good part of the week is that I did keep up tracking my food, and I was honest about the points value of what I was eating. I can look and see exactly when and how I blew it, instead of just pretending that I followed the plan and my weight gain had to have another reason. I can honestly say that every week I've had a loss of over five pounds in one week, I've followed the next week with a small gain. This week, I gained 1.8 pounds, bringing my total loss to 37 pounds. I'm still under my big milestone mark, and I still have two points left for the day.

Tonight's meeting was standing room only as a lot of people kicked off their New Year's resolutions by joining Weight Watchers. It will be interesting to see just how long the meetings stay so crowded. All in all, I can't say that I'm thrilled with this week, but it's just a little setback, not a terminal failure. So my weight loss chart won't be a straight line, but it is still going to continue.

diet, weight loss, Weight Watchers