Jedi Mind Tricks

I've been going up and down on the scale :-/. I bought a new scale yesterday, since I stopped going to Weight Watchers meetings. Last Tuesday, I weighed in (at my mom's house) at 199, which was somewhat a shock since I think I went over my points allowance the week before. This morning, I weighed myself on my new scale and clocked in at 196.5. So technically, that would make a loss of eight pounds. While I would like to rejoice in this loss, I'm not sure where its coming from. I like the fact that I can fall off and get back on without completely destroying all of my hard work. It also makes me wonder how much I would have loss if I hadn't had those weeks where I know my flex points value was more like...oh...55 as opposed to 35. I think the key is portion control...DUH! But most of the time, when I go over, its not like..."I've already had too much so I'm going to go all out and have everything in life". Normally, its like...I'll have one drink. Okay, maybe three...but now I'm done. Or..I had a crescent roll (my nemesis)...okay, two...okay three. This may not seem like control. But for me it is something close. Because normally, I would have eaten the remaining rolls. This time I left one...once I realized what I was doing. You can't lose weight doing this.

The other things that have helped are water and exercise. I started working out this week...striving for 30-45 minutes of cardio everyday and toning. Plus, I drink TONS of water. I have water at almost every meal and strive to have two full water bottles every day (32 oz each). Water helps keep me from snacking on things too. I have some light popcorn with me now, also to keep me away from the Hershey's kisses that are everywhere in the office. Snap: last week, I had like...10 hershey's kisses. I knew they were some points but I didn't know how many. I looked it up in the planner. I saw that a Hershey's kiss was five points. I was like WHAT?!? And I had 10 of these??? Damn. I looked again on Monday, only to realize that a SERVING of hershey's kisses were five points. Which is 9 kisses. While I don't fear them anymore, I normally have one a day. They're small but bery difficult to walk past. I think that's it for now.

Goal: Exercise 5 days/ week. Stick to the plan and don't just try to wash everything from the previous week away with a flush.