The weekly weigh in, week 21

iwas determined to make my Weight Watchers meeting tonight. I missed last week because of the snow, and then one little thing after another interfered in getting to another meeting. That made two weeks in a row, and that was enough to get me scared. I've done great, but I've lost more weight than this before on diets. It's terribly easy to let the discipline slip and not pick it back up again immediately.

In my two weeks away, I had one week of poor eating habits, and in the second, I made another big mistake. Last Wednesday, I left my folder with my food tracker, my points counter and my weekly materials in the office. Weather closed us down Thursday. My knee kept me away on Friday, and well, I just didn't want to go in on the weekend. That was four days without the careful monitoring of portion size and writing down every bite. I did watch my portion sizes. One of the things I enjoy about Weight Watchers are the common sense measurements, comparing sizes as opposed to measuring every ounce. True, some people weigh everything. One of my WW friends even takes her scales to restaurants, but getting that obsessive just wouldn't be right for me. On Monday, I was very relieved to find it and have made a conscious effort to walk the straight and narrow since then.

With two sketchy weeks of food management and one week of virtually no exercise, I was just hoping that I hadn't gained weight. At lunch today, I was looking at my materials, including the graph chart of my weight loss. I thought that in the time I'd been away from meetings that I really should have lost 5 pounds but knew that wouldn't happen. I realized that I'd be happy with just a one pound loss, and when I weighed in, that was exactly what I had lost. It's good enough for me. That brings my total weight loss to 46.2 pounds, an average of 2.2 pounds a week.

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