Weight Loss FAIL.

In my first week off of the crazy 700 calorie diet, I made a lot of what we would call "poor choices".  Don't get me wrong, I stayed within my points (my daily 26 + the 35 flex points) BUT, if I learned anything from the last 5 months, it's not how much you eat, it's WHAT you eat.  Apparently, once I stop paying someone to tell me what to do, I act like a Catholic schoolgirl in Cancun on Spring Break.  In other words, I had zero self-control.

The week started off pretty good.  My first major slip up involved my number one favorite thing to eat: Almonds.  I had absolutely no idea how little the serving size was, but when all was said and done, I had eaten 22 points worth of almonds in one sitting!  The rest of the day was filled with Salad and Salsa for the dressing.  Right after that, I had a major slip up.  My coworker brought in pumpkin donuts.  There are very few things in this world that I like more than anything pumpkin.  It was more than I could resist.  I ate 20 points worth of pumpkin donut.  I stayed within my points that day too.  I ate a lot of WW soup.  The following day was my friend MG's bachelorette party.  It seems like I ate my body weight in gyro meat but I thought I'd be fine because I had flex points left.

Today, I had my first WW weigh in.  I gained .6 lbs.  Yeah, that's not terrible.  It's not good either.  I know I need to make better choices and I think I've committed to doing that from this point on.  I had a long talk with my friend SG about it during our walk home at 4am from Power and Light.  She reminded me of all the things that I used to do that I guess I need to get into the habit of doing again.  Substitutions, in particular.

So, here's to re-committing and making better choices.  I sure hope I have a bit of success this week.  I was pretty sad about the gain.