{"id":114,"date":"2007-01-26T11:59:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T16:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-01-04T19:37:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T23:37:31","slug":"another-week-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Another Week One"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 26, 2007
\nFriday<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Week Ones are usually good. I tend to weigh and measure more diligently than usual and be more precise in the written tracking of my food consumption. And because a rejoin or a recommitment usually follows a period of overconsumption, the first weight loss is easily shed water. Thus I was not surprised to see that I am down 1.6 pounds this week, a modest start, but a start.<\/p>\n

I did find myself falling into a pattern I’d wanted to avoid this time. Last week I’d arrived at the Weight Watchers center at about noon because that’s when the impulse to do so seized me. I stayed for the noon meeting because, even though I really like the leader who does the Thursday and Friday evening meetings, I have not the heart right now for navigating the crosstown rush hour traffic to get to that usually very crowded meeting. The Friday noon meeting is small, and a friend from church was there, so I thought I’d try that again.<\/p>\n

That means that I left the house at 9:30, without breakfast, weighed in, had an Egg McMuffin (6 points) and a small orange juice (2 points) at McDonald’s, arrived for my haircut at 10:30 back on my side of town, and then went back to WW for the meeting. That’s an inefficient use of time.<\/p>\n

And with Weight Watchers’ new method for calculating how many points one should consume to keep losing weight, I found that my initial modest weight loss had pushed me down one more point. A point is worth about 50 calories, and I’m supposed to have only 24 points a day. That’s 1200 calories a day. “Flex points,” the “extra” points a member can use all at once or spread throughout the week, adds another 5 points (250 calories) a day, still under 1500 calories. I can certainly lose weight on that restrictive an intake, but I am hungry all the time<\/em><\/strong> that way, and tend to have a bite here and an extra taste there (BLTs \u00e2\u20ac\u201d bites, licks, and tastes).<\/p>\n

But I’ve started, and feel some measure of success. I start my week on Sunday, and as it happens, I have no more “Flex points” left for this week, and we’re going out for dinner tomorrow. I’ll just do the best I can, and start another Day 1 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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