Okay Madame Martinez

Hey y'all!

You don't know how much I long to hear someone say that to me out here.  Coloradans aren't Yankees, but they don't speak Southern either.  Several times I've said something and got a blank stare...awkward...for them.  I know perfectly well how to communicate!

One of my friends, Madame Martinez, begged me to start blogging again.  So here I am.  You should check out her blog:  martinezmayhem12.blogspot.com

Since moving to Colorado I've started doing Weight Watchers.  I bought a scale after my husband and I moved into the rent house.  I almost passed out when I saw the number on the dial 176! Don't tell anyone!  I thought about doing SBD again, but it was too easy for me to cheat and too hard to keep track of for me.  The food was yummy, but it was hard to hold myself accountable.  One of my cousins recommended Weight Watchers to me over Thanksgiving.  She lost 20 lbs doing it and she said that I could do the plan entirely on my I Phone!  This caught my interest!

So on Tuesday, January 1, 2013, I signed up.  Sister needs to be down to 145 by August so she doesn't look like a beached whale in her cousin's wedding!  So far I have lost 8 lbs in 3 weeks!  For those of you not familiar with Weight Watchers let me tell you a little bit about the program.

• Every day you get a certain number of points to eat.  Currently my number is 27.  Every food has a point value.  As soon as I sit down to eat, I get on my I Phone and record what I'm eating.  The app automatically calculates the point values!  Points do not roll over so its eat em or lose em.
• You also get a set number of extra points for the week.  Mine is 49.  Weight Watchers realizes that you're not going to eat perfect everyday and they account for it with these extra points.  After you go through your daily points, you start to use these.  
• Exercise can earn you activity points.  You get to use these points after you've used all the extra points you started the week with.

I am really liking the program so far.  I am eating the same foods, with a few differences, as I did when I was doing SBD, but its easier to stay on track and be accountable to myself.  There's no excuse for not putting down the food I eat as I eat it because I can do it easily on my phone.  I also like that nothing is off limits, you just have to make sure that its all with moderation.  I typically try to stay within my daily point values so that on the weekends I can splurge when I go out with my hubby!

I am really getting into a habit with my meals.  For breakfast I have oatmeal.  For lunch I was eating either a salad with lunch meat and baby bel cheese, or just lunch meat and fruit.  Yesterday I made an awesome discovery, Progresso Light Soups.  Each can is only 5 points!  Yesterday I tried the potato, it was divine for diet soup!  Then for dinner I make a big salad and I've been experimenting with different Weight Watcher recipes.  The serving sizes are small, but both the hubs and I feel full after eating the salad with our meal.

Weight Watchers has a great app online that lets you enter your own recipes into the computer and see how many points they are.  Chicken soup came out real well at 4 points a bowl.  Spaghetti Squash toss, not so much at 5 points a serving.  So for now, I'm trying to stick with their recipes.

For exercise I either do yoga for 30+ minutes a day, or I go for a walk at Target.  I have a route, and 60 minutes earns me 5 activity points!  I can earn even more if I'm pushing a cart full of groceries.

I'm glad to be back and look forward to blogging again soon!