Weight Watchers Week 2

Week 2 has been a great week from a food and nutrition stand point. I tracked my points, planned ahead and was able to eat out and enjoy my life. I vowed to get on the elliptical three times this week and I got on it ZERO times! This week I will pledge three times again and try harder. I stepped on the scale today and much to my surprise I lost 7.5 pounds!! Needless to say I was ecstatic! That makes a grand total of 10 pounds in two weeks. Yea for me!!

Weight Watchers and eating out

Not sure if this is of interest or not but I am following the Weight Watchers points systems. I am doing it on line. Eating out is a big part of my social life and hectic life with children (probably why I am so big!). This weekend I was very proud of myself. Friday we ate dinner before we met some couples for drinks near the house, so I was full when we got there. We were there quite a long time so I ended up drinking many diet cokes and had the shrimp cocktail. I had saved some points so I had six cooked plain shrimp with just a bit of cocktail sauce. Normally I would have eaten so much more. Saturday involved lunch and dinner out. Saturday for lunch we ate at Jason's Deli. I found the WW points in the Weight Watchers Eating Out book. I had 1/2 of the Turkey Reuben (5.5 points) and a cup of French Onion Soup (5 points). Sunday we ate at McAllister's Deli. I found WW points for this restaurant at Dotti's Weight Loss Zone. I had the Deli Ham Sandwich on Wheat (7 points) and the French Onion Soup (1/5 points). Now I am a really big girls so I get a lot of points. This may be too much for you smaller girls. Mr. PE and I had a date night Saturday night and we went to a movie and dinner. We saw Gran Torino which was a really good movie. I brought a package of WW Cheddar Twists (2 points) in my purse and I purchased a super duper extra large diet coke. Mr. PE had popcorn and I did not have one bite! After the movies we went to TGI Fridays. I had a diet coke of course and the dragon fire chicken. It is really yummy. It consists of a marinated chicken breast topped with Kung Pow sauce, mandarin oranges and pineapple pico de gallo, and served with stir-fried brown rice and cilantro lime seasoned broccoli. I found the nutrition information for this at The Daily Plate and then I calculated the points to be 9. If you are following Weight Watchers, I hope this helps. Official weigh in day is Wednesday so we will see how things went. A peak at the scales yesterday looked good! My resolution for this week is to drink more water.