Weight Watchers - week 2

Totally got another "Bravo!" sticker today folks. I lost 1.8 pounds this past week so I'm down 7.4 pounds since starting Weight Watchers 2 weeks ago. I must say that I'm really happy with my weight loss this past week because it is healthy. Last year when I lost 70 pounds in 7 months I was going to the gym, you guessed it... 7 days a week. On average I would lose 2.5 pounds a week, which for me then was a healthy weight loss of 2-3 pounds a week. I mentioned it in my last blog but I want to lose between 1-2 pounds a week while I'm nursing.

Weight Watchers has incentives to keep you coming back each week. Once you lose your first 5 pounds, you get a 5 pound sticker for your book. Once you loose your first 10 pounds you get a bookmark that says "I lost 10 pounds!". You can put all your stickers on that going forward. You also get a really nice silver keyring when you lose your first 10% and then after that you get adorable little charms to put on the keyring that say "25 pounds", "50 pounds" "100 pounds". My goal is to lose 40 pounds so I will only get the one charm, but who knows? maybe I will strive for the 50 pound charm too!

Last week and this week I got in 2 walks. Our mornings are never the same, but if she is happy and fed and I'm not overly tired from being up in the night then we usually head out for at least 45 minutes. Sometimes I walk around my neighborhood, 1 lap is .5 miles, and I usually walk 4 laps. IF the little gal in the stroller I'm pushing is cooperating. Other times I will walk up to Wal-Mart or Walgreens or Starbucks, all of which are less than 1 mile one way. We have to go pretty early, about 7:00 or 8:00am because anytime close to 9:00 or 10:00 and it's far too hot for the baby to be out. I'm looking forward to when it gets cooler and maybe we can walk in the evenings instead.

Also, I have tracked every single point I've put in my mouth since I started. I use an application on my phone and it works great. Of course WW doesn't have an app for the Android yet but I've emailed them and I'm using a different one that I found in the meantime. I used 10 of my "extra points" the first week because we went to a dinner party at a friends house and I only used 2 of my "extra points" this past week (you get 35 extra points per week). I find that I can pretty much eat anything I want at home and still have to cram more in as the day wears on but if I eat something away from home, the points sure do add up fast. Although, this past week, I did a bad job planning one day and I still had about 20 points to eat still and it was dinner time. So I stopped and got my husband and I Arby's. He wanted two small plain roast beef sandwiches and I got a small roast beef sandwich and CURLY FRIES!! :) I was looking up the calories on my phone in the drive through to make sure I definitely had enough points left though.

That's one thing that I love about WW, you can eat whatever you want as long as you're smart about it. No, I'm not going to eat curly fries from Arby's everyday, but this one day I had enough points left and it was a special treat. I firmly believe that if you deprive yourself then your brain will play tricks on you and you will set yourself up for failure. Everyone is entitled to eat what they want and that's where self control comes in.

To me, losing weight is 80% mental and 20% physical.