Desperation
Yes, desperation led me to Weight Watchers. I mean, what the hell else do you get your husband last minute for his 45th birthday?
So we both need to loose weight. Short of the miracle stomach bug I got in '06 that lost me 20+ pounds and got me a nice look at what depression is (thanks to a total chemical imbalance that went along with it) I would like to once again loose that weight, and har har, keep it off. Ryther also needs to loose at least 20lbs. So why not? For what we spend eating out once a week, we can pay for a the monthly fee for both of us. Yea, thats one of the huge problems we have, we eat out WAY too much. Total waste of money, but of course we both love food and I don't like to cook. Well, not much anyway.
So I have 27 points to play with each day, Ryther has 40something... Somehow I just don't see that as being fair.. Its been a bit annoying trying to figure out how much in points we are eating. Not that it's too hard because they give you a handy dandy calculator thing to take the info from boxes and such and it figures it for you, but trying to make a meal and determine all the points that are going into it, and figuring out what a 'cup' of meat is. Last night's supper was salad with leftover steak tips which was very good (you can eat all the fruits and veggies (except a few like peas) that you want without using your points, but the dressing, the crutons, the feta, the steak and the crasins all have points. Well, whatever... My MIL swears this worked for her and it did. Of course the bowel obstruction worked even better! I don't know how long we'll be on this, but we both need some motivation.
The only thing now is that all I can thing about is food! Seems like I am always thinking about points and what I can eat and can't... Where as before I hardly thought about food. lol
So we both need to loose weight. Short of the miracle stomach bug I got in '06 that lost me 20+ pounds and got me a nice look at what depression is (thanks to a total chemical imbalance that went along with it) I would like to once again loose that weight, and har har, keep it off. Ryther also needs to loose at least 20lbs. So why not? For what we spend eating out once a week, we can pay for a the monthly fee for both of us. Yea, thats one of the huge problems we have, we eat out WAY too much. Total waste of money, but of course we both love food and I don't like to cook. Well, not much anyway.
So I have 27 points to play with each day, Ryther has 40something... Somehow I just don't see that as being fair.. Its been a bit annoying trying to figure out how much in points we are eating. Not that it's too hard because they give you a handy dandy calculator thing to take the info from boxes and such and it figures it for you, but trying to make a meal and determine all the points that are going into it, and figuring out what a 'cup' of meat is. Last night's supper was salad with leftover steak tips which was very good (you can eat all the fruits and veggies (except a few like peas) that you want without using your points, but the dressing, the crutons, the feta, the steak and the crasins all have points. Well, whatever... My MIL swears this worked for her and it did. Of course the bowel obstruction worked even better! I don't know how long we'll be on this, but we both need some motivation.
The only thing now is that all I can thing about is food! Seems like I am always thinking about points and what I can eat and can't... Where as before I hardly thought about food. lol