Starting again

I went to Weight Watchers this morning and stuck around for the meeting. (I think the last time I went to a meeting was in Cobleskill when I was still with the ex and living with his family.) The number on the scale did not make me happy.... 192.6. That is the same weight as my weigh in on December 4th. Definitely the wrong direction to be going in. At the same time, I know that it could have been a lot worse. I could have gained a lot more weight in this time that I was off plan.

The meeting was okay overall. The leader was an older woman who seemed pretty nice. The other people in attendance were a quiet group, but I really liked the other two ladies working. I may try to go to the earlier meeting in the future, at least to see the group dynamic of the people at that time. For the immediate future I'm going to stick with Sunday meetings. I figured out that I tend to end up with plans and conflicts on Saturdays which would give me lots of excuses for not going to weigh in or to stay for a meeting. While these Saturday plans may include high point value food choices, knowing I'm weighing in the next day will help keep me accountable with my portions on Saturday. I know that my weigh in weights will be affected if I'm continuously going out to eat on Saturdays, but on some level I feel that going to weigh in, regardless of the number on the scale, has more value to me in the long run.


In the land of poor food choices, going out to eat at the local Barbecue place and getting ribs and fries last night was definitely not the best choice for the night before weigh in, and I knew that but made the conscious decision to go anyway. My parents wanted to take me out to celebrate my "new" job. (I call it "new" because I'll have to sign a new contract, and I did have to interview, but it is doing the same job that I've been doing since January.) I'm not going to say that the food was worth it, but I'm glad we went last night, and as it was ultimately my choice of a night to go I went knowing that it would most likely affect the scale, and being willing to accept whatever number it resulted in. (I think I would have been a little happier about things overall if I wasn't going to weigh in to rejoin knowing I was up from my last WW weigh in.)

Right now I'm trying to focus on getting back on track with everything. I was good about tracking for about half of the week. It is a step in the right direction so I'm not going to beat myself up over it and just focus on this being a new week and doing my best this week.

My mom and I went to get a few groceries last night and I found out that the Weight Watchers ice cream cones do not have coconut oil in them! I'm allergic to coconut and all of its derivatives, and they use coconut oil in chocolate ice cream coatings to make them hard, so it is really hard to find ice cream bars/cones that I can have.


Plans for the rest of day include working on planning at least breakfasts, lunches, and snacks for the work week, and doing a load of laundry. I have other things I should work on too, but we'll see how the afternoon progresses.