The Blonde Diaries

Well week 4 has just come to an end on my Weight Watchers diet. I had some pretty big ups and downs this week on my diet. I think we all remember my Crawfish Fettuccini post which represented pretty well how the rest of the week went. I ended up making chicken italian sausage on Tuesday night to finish up the pasta but it just wasn’t the same as what my heart was set on but I ate it and got over my disappointment. I did learn how to measure out my portions using a food scale so that was a point scored for me on this journey. I had found a cheap but cute scale at Crate and Barrel last year but left it on the top shelf of my kitchen cabinet (Bad Cate!). So I drug it down last week and started to use it. I found that my portions per the scale weren’t nearly as bad as what I had thought by reading the package serving size. Like 2oz of pasta is quite a lot!

But 3 days of pasta was all I could take before turning in my flex points and doing our once a week eating out dinner – again at Buffalo Wild Wings. I just wasn’t feeling it so we skipped the wings and opted for a wrap, only had a couple of beers, and said no on dessert. So again not too horrible. But then again it did continue the downward spiral of no exercise for 3 days (Wed, Thurs, Fri) and then I ate out Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon but coupled it with some exercise so it wasn’t a complete loss. Mike and I also took our monthly Zoo trip to the Houston Zoo and had a nice brisk walk Sunday morning which I counted as extra exercise.

If you are looking for a change in your exercise routine I highly recommend going to local parks or the zoo early in the morning. We went at 9 am and the weather was just perfect with a fabulous breeze, sun wasn’t too hot yet, and there were not that many people. The only bad thing was that its pollen season and Mike and I didn’t last much longer than 1.5 hours but it was still nice for a change in scenery. I think we might do it again in 2 weeks after Mike’s CPA exam.

So all in all I had a .5 pound loss last week so I was still happy even though its small in comparison with my 2 pound losses. But as I learned in weight watchers a loss is a loss no matter how big or small. I’m on the right track so that’s all I can ask.

For this week: tuna helper helped and 2 pounds of chicken to figure out how to spice up. So stay tuned for a week 5 update to see what I did.

Tags: diet, exercise, weight loss, weight watchers