Oops...

I just got home from date night, all was going well...yes WAS going well until the waiter put a basket of bread and butter down on the table....what I intended to come out of my mouth was 'I'm not going to eat that', instead what I said was 'oh screw it' and I grabbed a piece or three! when it came to ordering I stuck with my plan and ordered a margarita pizza. I ate most of it but I didnt finnish it, I was stuffed (probably because of the bread). We then headed upstairs to the cinema where i stuck with my resolution to share a large popcorn with Will and drink a diet coke,I really dont like to drink diet drinks, I think fake sugar is evil! however I wanted cola with my popcorn like I normally would and I wasn't prepared to spend pps on it, so once in a while a diet drink is ok, just not regularly. We ordered the popcorn and diet coke and the guy put two cadburys creme eggs on the counter and said 'these are free with the popcorn' - insert curse word here - what I should have done was said I didn't want them, but no, I muttered annoyance to myself and took it anyway and then I ate it...yes I did, the shame!....oh whatever it was one egg...5pps...it was worth it! there is no point in beating myself up over it, or the bread, it happened, now move on. In the grand scheme of things it wont do that much damage because i'm in this for good, it's a lifestyle change and once in a while its ok to slightly over indulge. so long as it really is once in a while.

Date night fright!

Tonight myself and my boyfriend Will are going on a date night, italian followed by a movie at the cinema and since im saving my weeklies for my easter eggs this weekend im trying to figure out how I can make this work using my daily allowance. We are only having mains, im gonna order a margarita pizza which is 18pp. then im torn between eating half a large popcorn (other half eaten by will of course) which would be 10pp or eating a 60g bag of mini choc covered rice cakes for 8pp....so torn!
so either way i have 6 or 8 points for the rest of the day, 0pp fruit for breakfast and 0pp soup and a medium ham roll 6pp for lunch. I had planned all week to go with the rice cakes thinking they would be much lower in pps than they have turned out to be, so now im thinking I may as well get the popcorn for just 2 more pps. The cinemas just not the same without popcorn!

The Easter Bunnies a comin...uh oh!

Easter, one of my favorite times of year...all that delicious chocolate, which I believe tastes even better in easter egg form! So how am I planning to tackle this one...being a chocoholic its normal for me to end up with 6+ easter eggs on easter sunday (I have a very strict rule about not eating any easter eggs before easter sunday) this year I have asked my mom and boyfriend only to buy me one each so thats two, which for me is saintly good. I plan to use my weekly pro points allowance to eat one of them on sunday which will be 23pp for the egg excluding the little eggs inside (Im getting the caramel egg one, my fav!) 33pp including the eggs. so i'll have some weeklies left over for any other temptations that come my my this weekend, which there will probably be a few as im visiting my parents for the weekend. I say create a plan and try your damnest to stick to it, no point in depriving yourself of something you love, only to crash and burn as a result. oh and track,track,track!

reasons why

I decided to join weight watchers having been unhappy with my weight for quite a while. Having tried and failed on a number of occasions to loose the weight I knew I couldn't go it alone and I decided that weight watchers could offer me the support I felt I needed in order to succeed.
My weight began to pile on about 5 years ago, probably because I am a big comfort eater and a self confessed chocoholic but I also blame my college years, they were not good to my body! I would gather up my will power and loose a few pounds here and there only to gain it all back and then some. This time round though, I am determined to loose the extra weight that makes me so miserable. I will feel good about myself, I will purchase the clothes that I gaze longingly at now, but most importantly losing the weight will really help me to maintain a minor health issue of mine, a hiatus hernia. so this is why I am here and I am hell bent on success, hopefully this blog will help to keep me on track.
so here I am on my third week having had two weigh ins and I have lost 4.5lbs which i am quite pleased with.