This week’s WW meeting was about the importance, and power, of tracking. I know tracking works so I decided in that meeting that I was going to track all week. Then I resisted for the next 3 days. Huh? I know it works. I resolved to do it. And yet I held off. What’s that about?
Not sure but I think part of it is that I didn’t have a great day on Saturday from a program standpoint. My “dinner” Saturday night was three glasses of wine and half a flatbread appetizer (think small thin crust mushroom, onion, and feta pizza). Oy. I also didn’t plan very well so I was sure it wouldn’t look good.
But tonight I decided to do what I would tell any member who asked me to do - track it anyway. If I want the pants I was wearing today to fit right again, I need to do it. So I bit the bullet.
I’ll be honest that I don’t recall 100% of what I ate since Saturday but I’ve got 95% of it. Things weren’t great but thanks to my 15 AP spin class on Sunday and a switch to using my APs on a weekly basis instead of daily I had the final damage report. I’ve used all the APs I’ve earned so far this week and used 11 of my WPAs. Not great, but not terrible. And at least now I know. I’m hoping that knowledge will give me the motivaiton to plan and track better for the rest of the week.
It’s also inspiring me to work out and earn some more APs. I had planned/hoped to do it tonight but couldn’t quite motivate myself. So I’m going to get up tomorrow morning and use my awesome new playlist before an early meeting.
All in all a good day because I treated today like a fresh start for good behavior instead of writing off the whole week. Here’s hoping it pays off the next time I go to put those pants on!
Thanks to my snazzy new iPhone, I have successfully tracked my PTS+ for an entire week! Surprisingly, I stayed withing my PTS+ despite going out to eat at Macaroni Grill twice, having the bread there, having ice cream as a treat several times during the week, and snacking more than I should. And when I weighed myself this morning (which I can also track in my iPhone) I was down o.7 lbs!
I’m very excited about this development, and looking forward to another week of journaling. It’s going to be a tougher week because I have alot going on at work what will keep me busy morning til night, but I’m really going to make it a point to track using the app so that I can continue the positive momentum.
How’d you do with tracking this week? Did it show on the scale?
Alot. Take these numbers, for example:
41…42…39…34
What are those? The amount of PTS+ I’ve eaten each of the 4 days since I’ve been journaling using the WW app on my new iPhone. Well no wonder I’ve been gaining weight! My target is 29! I’ve been way, way, way over every single day.
Now, on some of those days I did exercise to earn APs. But still, if I want to lose this weight I’ve gained I need to get my eating in check. I knew that, but seeing it staring me in the face from that little screen is sobering.
Luckily, there’s no such thing as failure, only feedback. And I’m going to parlay this feedback into a great week. My goal is to have at least 1 WPA left over come Friday night. It’s Monday night and I have 31 left. I think that’s totally doable. (And the good news is that after Friday and Saturday things have gotten better. I haven’t been over as much).
Then next week I’ll aim to use even fewer of them, until hopefully I’m not using anything other than the APs. I earn. Speaking of which…it’s time to hit the gym!
