The Blonde Diaries

Weight Watchers: End of Week 3 update

I just completed week 3 of my new Weight Watchers life style. I like to think that I did pretty well with my eating out choices. You see I went home for Easter and my family loves to eat out on the weekends. So I decided instead of fighting to eat at home I would just start learning to make smarter choices while eating out because it is something I must tackle at some point in my journey so why not now?

So Friday afternoon (got off of work early)- went to the local favorite spot here in Houston: Berryhill’s which is known for its fish and shrimp tacos. I went with a seafood enchilada, a grilled fish taco, queso, chips, and just one margarita. (Note: the enchilada was tiny and the grilled fish taco actually makes 2 tacos so I ate just one). Notes: Good choice on the grilled fish taco and on just one margarita as well as 1/2 the rice and no beans. Need to work on the queso/chips thing. Not too bad.

Friday night: Well by the time I finished my 4 hour drive and met up with my family I was starving. Tried to hold out till I went to bed but that wasn’t working so I stopped in at McDonald’s. Under normal circumstances I would just go with a burger or cheeseburger (5/6 points) but since it was 11:30 they had neither -shocker- so I had to go with the quarter pounder with cheese. Well Friday quickly went downhill.

I decided not to let Saturday do me in. So I woke up and had some cereal with berries and skim milk like normal. Went out a bit with my mom then hit up walmart and got a lean cuisine and yogurt to hold me till dinner. I knew dinner out would be coming so I didn’t suggest eating out for lunch as well. We went to a fabulous little Italian restaurant that is known for their calzones but since I was trying to retrain myself I went with grilled chicken ceasar salad with dressing on the side. Score for me!

Sunday was another challenge as it was Easter Sunday and the day before my brother’s birthday. So that meant lunch out before I left to go home. This time it was Cheesecake Bistro (a knockoff of Cheesecake Factory). Once again I decided to stop at the salad and soup section of the menu instead of going on and settled for some awesome chicken and sausage gumbo and a ceasar salad. Score for me again!

So I’m happy to say that my training is going well for eating out and making smart choices. I also did pretty darn good at staying within my points during the week and saving flex points for Thursday night and Friday afternoon. What I did slack up on was exercising which is not good. So this week I’ll be heading back to the gym and making it a habit to go daily.

Final results for the week: -2 pounds!! So I’m officially -4 pounds in 3 weeks.