Weigh-In Wednesday: So Close

First let me thank all of you who commented on my last post! I truly loved hearing from each of you and will be checking out the blogs of those I haven't visited before. I appreciate all of my readers, and I am glad you took the time to comment. It's not to late to comment, so if you're a lurker who's being shy, come out from hiding! :)

Today marks the beginning of my 3rd week on Weight Watchers. Y'all, week 2 was TOUGH stuff. I went over my daily points allowance every day but one. Fortunately, the plan also gives me 49 "extra" points to use throughout the week, and supposedly I can still lose weight even if I use those points. I ended up using 23 of those extra points this past week, whereas the week before that I only used 15. I was concerned about how this would affect the scale, but one thing made me feel better: activity points. Every time I exercise, I get points for that activity. The points are determined by what kind of exercise it is (walking or running, etc.) and how long I exercise for. For example, I get 2 activity points if I walk for 30 minutes, but I get 6 activity points if I run for 30 minutes. I can then choose to "eat" those extra points if I want. Obviously, this motivates me to exercise more and more specifically, it motivates me to run more since I get so many more points for that. I ended up with 30 points for the week, enough to make up for the extra points I ate and then some.

Now, the moment you've all been waiting for: my weigh-in.

Last week's weight: 172.6

This week's weight: 170.8

Total lost: 1.8 lbs

Definitely not as amazing as last week's weight loss, but I am still very happy with how I did. I think the exercise really helped. With that loss, I've now lost 5 pounds in the last two weeks, which is a great loss for me! Yippee!

The only downside? With this weight loss, Weight Watchers changed my daily points target to 27 from 28, which means I am going to have to be even more careful with what I eat. To be honest, I have been hungry a LOT these past 2 weeks. I need to work on using fruits and veggies as snacks so I don't feel so hungry all the time. I certainly don't think it's a bad thing to be hungry every now and then, but I don't want to feel that way all the time because that just means I'll eventually get frustrated and eat two Big Macs and a large order of fries (not really, but you know what I mean). 

Week 3 will be a challenge for me since we're going out of town to visit Stephen's parents, so tracking will be harder. I am going to work at being diligent with tracking what I can and make wise decisions. I am so close to the 160s, so I don't want to blow it this week.

I hope you all have a great week!