This weekend has been a doozie! We were pummled by about 30 inches of snow in the DC Metro area, and we are still digging out. Guess what? Another 5-10 inches are coming Tuesday/Wednesday. As much as I love snow, this is just out of control. We are 35″ above our annual average, and its only the beginning of February. This is going to be a long long winter. Fireman was out with the kids all weekend so I had a lot of alone time, which is both fabulous and not so great all at the same time.
The good news is that I’ve been racking up the activity points with shoveling. Did you know that 3 hours of shoveling when you weight approximately 275 pounds is 16 activity points? Yeah that pretty much rocks. I’ve been keeping up with Rubenesque Ladies Running and am on track to finish up Week 6 on Thursday of this week. The bad news? I’ve been making horrendous eating decisions most days. Being stuck inside has weakened my resolve, I have been tracking, but the scale is up. I am out of Flex Points and have dipped into my activity points, which I try to not to do. I havent been making smart choices, I’ve been making really bad choices. I have earned a record number of activity points this week (47!) but I don’t think thats going to make up for the bad food choices I’ve been making. I’m a bit worried that the scale is going to be up this week due to my poor choices, because that’s what happens folks. You eat poorly, you gain weight.
One of the big plusses of having this much snow and being stuck inside are the number of wedding projects that I’ve been able to work on! I’m about 75% done with our invitation assembly, I spent almost 10 hours cutting tissues paper for the tissue pomanders (ugh, it was a LOT of cutting!) All of these things were nice to work on! Puts me a little ahead of schedule, which is nice.
So what is the change? I can feel myself pulling away from Weight Watchers, which I do whenever I start to get bored and unfocused. I’ve decided to switch over to Sparkpeople.com for a while to track my calories. I’m hoping changing how I am tracking will help me to regain my focus. Between that and starting the Beck Diet book this week, I am making some smart changes. I will continue to email my journal daily to Bella to help keep me accountable, it will just be in a different format (calories instead of points.)
I’ve also started a new page, which you can link to over on the right (see the chick eating the apple), called Scale Warfare Eats where I will post my daily food journals. Feel free to check it out starting on Wednesday February 10th, since that is when I am making my switch to Sparkpeople.com I will continue tracking my Weight Watchers points until then.
Tata for now,
Scale Warfare
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