Leaving Daily Points Behind

It feels foreign to me to not eat all my daily points.  When the new WW Freestyle program rolled out, one of the changes included not having to eat all your daily points.  I believe this to be because prior programs created a large calorie deficit and thus, you needed to eat all the points offered to you to maintain a healthy caloric intake.  With Freestyle, there is so many 0 SPV foods that it is assumed you will be eating more of them than other foods and thus meeting your caloric intake without having to eat all your points. 

Obviously, this isn’t an actual science and each person needs to find what works for them.  Typically, I need to eat all my points to encourage weight loss so I really don’t know what will happen this week.  I want to think that less food/points will help me get a jump on weight loss again but I really have no idea.  I’ll just keep plugging away and see what Tuesday WI brings.

Since I stopped drinking my afternoon ice coffee from home, I’ve saved myself 3 SPV a day.  And, if I don’t have any other coffee throughout the day, I can save up to 6 SPV.  I haven’t replaced this with other foods so I’m hoping this will be the deficit I’ve been missing.  I’ve also made some other food decisions this week and watched my points closer.  Last night, I made an all 0 SPV dinner by grilling chicken on the BBQ and then warming up some green beans and frozen corn.  Dessert was a large amount of watermelon. 

I had 11 DSPV left so I added real butter to my corn.  I ended my day with 10 points leftover.  I’ve also earned a blue dot each day this week. 

 

Building on my success each day feels really good.  I am working a 12-hour shift today and Kenyon and I are meeting at Sizzler for dinner.  I’ll do some pre-tracking and am planning to have the steak and salad bar deal.  I was going to use today as a rest day from activity but I ended up on the side of the room with the treadmill so I might as well make good use of it and get my 30 minutes of activity done for the day. 

Seize the day!

A Good Week Of Activity...So Far

Good Friday Morning!  With my new days off being during the weekday, it is your Friday but my Monday.  Whomp! Whomp!  However, I used the extra hours during the weekday to get to the gym.  Yeah!  So, even though I am a bit tired today, it has been a good week so far.

Here is a peek at what my return to the gym looked like:

 

Tuesday I met Kelsey at the gym for the Looped In class.  Wednesday I walked on the treadmill at work during my overtime shift.  Thursday I met up with Phoenix at the gym for a double dose of classes, Kickboxing and Chisel (weights).

 

I also drug my niece Hailey along with me to the gym on Thursday as she spent the night after taking in some fireworks.  She didn’t want to do the kickboxing class but as a whole, we were able to get her to do some of the weights class.  She lasted about 10 minuets then we joked the rest of the day about her bulging muscles.  Ha!  Teenangers.

I had some meals out planned this week, which was causing me some anxiety.  There is nothing worse than a renewed focus on your WW plan only to remember that you have all these temptations ahead of you.  I took it one day at a time and tried my best to balance it throughout the rest of my day.  I had some rollover points from both Monday and Tuesday, which also helped add to my Weekly Smart Points Allowance.  I ended up using 4 WSPA on both Wednesday and Thursday.  Since I had the rollover weekly points, I have 40 WSPA left for the week.

I don’t foresee anything between now and WI so I am hoping for a loss this week.  You never know what your body will do though.  I have to work some extra hours today and tomorrow but I am going to also plan on getting in some activity either at work (console treadmill) or after work.

Since I have been thinking a lot about what isn’t working and have been making some changes, I’ve scaled back some areas I was using points (coffee creamer as I drink an abundance of coffee) and I think that is what is also helping off set the rest of the day’s points.

My meals have not been particularly glamorous this week, but I am enjoying the turkey sausage crumbles I picked up at Fred Meyer.  They make my morning omelet taste so good.

Keep On Keeping On

Celebrate

Happy 4^th Of July!!!!

 

Good Morning from behind the radio.

 

Sadly, we started our day with a fatality crash.  If you are traveling this holiday season, please be safe.  And, if you are playing with fireworks later tonight, well, please be safe with those too.

 

I’m going to meet up with Kenyon for dinner at Tucanos and then go watch fireworks somewhere in town with Phoenix and her kids.  We are still debating where to go and how much traffic we want to deal with.  After all, I did wake up at 4:15am this morning.

I found out yesterday was Idaho’s Statehood, July 3, 1980.  That is exciting.  And, I’m not a very good Idahoan because I didn’t even know that. 

 

I’ll leave with you with a photo of my sweet 4^th of July Jamberry nails.