Tag: weight watchers

Fish

I mentioned last week that I had some salmon and it didn’t kill me. Well the fish experiments continue.

Last night we had haddock. Much to my surprise, it was pretty good. Not my favorite thing ever, but pretty good. Today we had swordfish. Now I had always heard that swordfish was a good choice for people who don’t like fish because it doesn’t taste fishy.

How was it?

It was really fishy. Of the three fish we’ve had in the last eight days, it was by far my least favorite. Of course the kids loved it like crazy.

Tofu

I was a good boy today. I managed to go the whole working at home day without splurging on junk food. I followed the weight watchers rules to the letter. Then for dinner I did something…

Insane!

Well, not really but… really.

Jen made a really delicious veggie stir fry for dinner tonight, along with some quinoa. You might think the quinoa was the insane thing, but we’ve been eating that since just after New Year and I really like it. No, the craziness was in the stir fry, right along with the spectacular broccoli.

Tofu.

Not only did she make it… but I…

(wait for it)…

ATE SOME!

The world’s pickiest eater had fish over the weekend and now he’s had tofu. Un-be-freakin’-lieveable!

The first bite of tofu was okay. The taste was sort of non-existent but the texture was a little creepy. The second bite… not so much. The texture just got to me. I didn’t like it.

That’s not the point of this post though.

The point is THE WORLD’S PICKIEST EATER IS TRYING CRAZY NEW THINGS! Quinoa, fish, tofu! What the hell has happened to me? They are going to kick me out of the picky eater’s club!

(and I am okay with that)

Working from Home on a Diet

Today is my first day working from home since restarting weight watchers and getting back on the diet and exercise bandwagon.  When I am in the office there is a soda machine and a candy machine and a cafeteria full of good stuff.  It’s pretty easy to avoid it because it involves money.  If I don’t take any to work with me then I can’t be tempted.

At home things are different.  Our decision to do this happened quickly and at the time there was still a fair amount of junk food in the house.  There is a box of cookies and a bag of chips literally three feet away from me as I type this. 

The temptation is there, but I will rise above it.  I can beat this!

Three Whole Days

I know that every time I get the weight loss bug I post something exactly like this.  It’s repetitive, I know.  I’m sorry.  It’s just that if you see the kind of diet I subject myself to you will understand how epic a change this is…

Here goes…

I haven’t had any caffeine since Saturday morning.  Three.  Days.  Ago. 

I literally have not ingested caffeine into my body since last month.

And somehow, I have not died.  I can’t believe it.  Normally if you took a sample of my blood you would find that it is carbonated and caffeinated.  That’s how much soda I drink.  Lakes worth of coca~cola.  Seas of it.  Oceans of it.  Whole great big bunches of coca~cola.  And somehow I have gone for three days, more than 72 hours, without even a taste of it.

I don’t know how I’ve managed to survive this long, but I can say that last night I went to sleep at a decent hour.  Hopefully the caffeine ban is having positive results.

Why I Need to Go to a Weight Watchers Meeting ASAP

My beloved wife and I joined Weight Watchers just after the new year.  We went to meetings consistently for five or six week and then started to miss them.  It’s been about a month since we’ve checked in.  I haven’t been 100% faithful to the program.  There have been a few nights recently where whoopie pies were substituted for dinner.  I am still off of coca~cola, which is a miracle for me, but I find myself drinking caffeinated sodas more than I should (there is a coke zero on my desk as we speak).  I’m not really counting points anymore, but I have gotten into a set routine for most meals.  Breakfast, lunch, and snacking in between are pretty much the same each day.  Dinners vary, but with the exception of the junk food meals they are still under my available points for each day.  We haven’t started going to the gym, although March was sort of our target for that.  We need to get back into regular meetings first, I think.

Here is the real reason why I need to start going to meetings as soon as possible.  I stepped on our bathroom scale this morning.  Back in January, at our first weigh in, my weight was recorded as X. At our last meeting my weight was recorded as X-16.  (You didn’t know you’d be getting an Algebra lesson here, did you?)  When I stepped on the scale this morning my weight was X-24.  Fantastic!  Of course, our scale is notoriously inaccurate.  I stepped on again and it gave me X-17.  I stepped on a third time and it gave me X-10.  I stepped on once more and it gave me X-27. 

That’s it.  I’m done.  From this day forth the only scales that exist on Earth are the ones at Weight Watchers offices. 

 

PS: The irony of this post being written during my lunch break is not lost on me.  Mmmm, chicken sandwich.

Change of Plans

For the first time we are skipping Weight Watchers. It has nothing to do with fear of the scale. Nothing to do with the fact that we threw a birthday party for an 11 year old last Sunday, and that the cake was gigantic and absolutely magical in It’s deliciousness, and therefore is gone.

No. We are skipping the weigh in and the meeting because the USA vs Russia hockey game starts in 13 minutes. You can take the Cold War out of the international political climate, but you can’t take the Cold War out of the Olympic Ice Hockey fan.

USA! USA! USA!

Weight Watchers Weigh In

We went to weight watchers today for our weekly weigh in. We didn’t stay for the meeting though. I’m down another 3.6 pounds, for a total of 16.8 pounds. I’m still very pleased, but at the same time I am waiting for the other shoe to drop. It’s fun while it lasts, but I am pretty sure one of these days I’m going to step on that scale and they are going to say, you’re up 60. Urgh. Stress on top of stress.