Well today was the day!! I met with my new trainer and went to my first Weight Watchers meeting for my official first weigh in. My new trainer weighed me in and so did WW and the scales are basically the same. WW had me at 182.4 and the gym had me at 182.2. I met my MIL at WW and we stayed for both the regular meeting and the orientation meeting which was super full being the first meeting of January. From our orientation, I found out all the details of Beyond the Scale is basically what I thought it was going to be; lots of lean protein, fruits, veggies and complex carbs. While I can technically eat anything I want, the point value on things with sugar, besides fruits, and fat has sky rocketed. For example I spent all day after the meeting today grocery shopping and there were some WW fudgesicle bars that were valued at 1 Points Plus, the last couple years program and now on the new Smart Points program that same fudgsicle is now 4 Smart Points. This is what I was expecting so I was totally on board. My MIL however looked over at me after the meeting and said "Well I still don't know what the hell I am suppose to do" and "this is not what I was expecting." So I asked her what was she expecting and she said she didn't know but "I guess I'll give this crap a try" REALLY!?!?! She is the only reason I joined the meeting and not just online, because she didn't want to go to the meetings alone. I don't think she is a regular reader of my blog but even if she is WTH man!! It kind of irked me that she was so negative because a few weeks ago she was very scared and worried because her heart is going into a-fib more regularly. Her Dr said that losing weight and activity will help. She was terrified about the news and the test the Dr's had to run and as scared and worried but she is being negative!?!?! I've always wondered what would it take to scare me healthy, like the do on Biggest Loser, and I kind of thought this was her scare straight moment. Then the next day she called and had me check the points value of something on my app and I find out she is only paying weekly instead of a monthly pass so she has no access to the app or the website. I told hubby I feel like she isn't even trying to commit to this. Then she was telling me that she was using her old WW slide rule points thing and that was introduced in 1997. Granted it did work and I am sure it would still work, but the fact is that isn't the program we are on now. I told her the points value and she said well that isn't what my slide thing says. I reminded her that the new program thats much more into account when giving a point value and told her that had calories and grams of fat only. The new program calculator takes: Calories, fat, saturated fat, sugar, carbs, fiber & protein and she groaned. She also said she had eye balled and guess the value of her lunch.
After all this I was venting to hubby and I told him I feel like I have no choice but to kick ass this time around. I am hoping my success will motivate not only my MIL but also my Mom who is joining will continue as well. I have made a promise to myself that I am going to stick to it all for a month. After a month I feel like I will have gained the momentum to keep going with out it being such a struggle. Right now I have a birthday party next weekend and I am making the cake for it. One cupcake, only ONE cupcake is 11 points! I get 30 daily points and 35 weekly points. I can plan for it and I need to stick to just one cupcake. It takes planning but it is all workable and doable.
Slow and steady wins the race. Hoping for 5 lbs weight loss a month. My body has never don't more than that, if it wants to that would be amazing but having a nice slow loss will help me keep it off in the long run. Now that I am fully stocked with good food choices I am ready to start tomorrow.
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