Weight Watchers Week #5

It is here!!! Weigh in day!
     Did I mention I had a super busy week??  Planning, decorating and running the Women's Conference for our church-whew!!  If you really want to know, I can tell you what that entails, but it is pretty tiring!  HOWEVER, God has such sustaining grace to heap upon us and I truly ENJOYED the conference and rejoiced every time God showed Himself to me in the little details AND in the big ones!
     All that to say, it was a hard weekend to track my every point!  Not only that, but Friday night at the conference is DESSERT BUFFET!!  When I went to a luncheon on Friday to meet the speaker, we were served Pumpkin Cheesecake (big birthday favorite!!) but I was such a good girl and only ate 1/2!  Our in house chef (YEAH MIKE!) did such a great job with the food and it was totally WW conducive!  I had some pumpkin pie and a chocolate chip cookie, but Saturday I had yummy egg casserole and fruit, whole wheat wrap with turkey and swiss, sunchips and salad, and for dinner, a lightly breaded chicken breast, sweet potato and green beans!  I ate my piece of pumpkin roll with relish after all that good food!! It really was a pretty healthy weekend!

    Monday night I was slightly hungry later in the evening, but I had a date with the scale tonight, so  I pushed through it and didn't indulge!  I love that accountability of the SCALE!!

    SO HOW MUCH DID YOU LOSE?? You are asking.  I am just so proud I am rambling!!!
    4.4 pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I reached my first goal, too, which means I have to lose a point a day, but I am ready!  I told you last week I was determined, and I still am!  I have lost a grand total of 13.4 pounds in 5 weeks!  It is so incredibly awesome, and not incredibly hard!  I just needed to pay attention to what I was doing.  I haven't done that in the last 11 years-I've been paying attention to the kids wholeheartedly.  Certainly there are days it is still hard to eat well, but I am improving my choices a LOT!  I found out how many points are in boxed Macaroni and Cheese and prefer to avoid it now. However, I simply didn't have time to make 2 lunches today, so I had exactly 1 cup of it and was satisfied for 3 hours-along with a very tall cup of water and a banana.  I hate bananas, but I am willing to eat one if it will fill me and help me lose weight!!  I hope this is an encouragement to you if you are working on weight loss, too!  It took me 12 years to put on all this weight, but it certainly shouldn't take that long to get it off with Weight Watchers helping me out!

     Have a GREAT HARVEST WEEK!!!