I joined Weight Watchers online today. I lost the first 20 lbs of my pregnancy weight the first 10 days after I had the baby, but I haven’t lost one pound since then, and it’s been three weeks. I’ve been walking a lot—between two and four miles a day—but I’ve been eating a lot, too. It seems I’m always hungry. My idea of a diet is to do the elliptical three or four times a week and stop eating sweets, but I’ve never really tracked the calories, or points, of everything I eat. Holy moly. I was allotted 33 daily points because I’m breast feeding (normally I’d get 23), and I ate 56.5 points today! Not off to a great start. It’s good to know, though, which foods have a lot of points and which don’t. Salad and other vegetables have 0 while that evil Trader Joe’s quiche I ate this morning has 11! And my 2.5 mile walk only gave me three extra points. In other words, one mini quiche = nearly 10 miles walking! Ohmygod!
In other news, Shea has been pretty fussy lately. If I’m not feeding him or walking him (and he’s not sleeping), he’s usually crying. I’m trying to get out of the house earlier to take my walks so that he’ll sleep through the afternoon. Otherwise I go crazy trying to entertain him. Today I wore the Baby Bjorn in the house, so I could make lunch, but as soon as he was asleep I put him down and he started screaming again.
I’m reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, and it’s great. I watched Hairspray (the remake) last night and was a little bored by it. I liked the original better. I’m trying to read more and watch less TV.
5 Comments
January 15, 2008 at 4:13 pm
May be Shea is going through a “phase” like we all do – except that only you have to deal with it – we can go and oooh and aaah over him!
January 15, 2008 at 4:14 pm
You have almost convinced me to join weight watchers.
January 16, 2008 at 1:34 am
Me too–but I won’t, because as soon as I’m on a diet, I start eating more. Leave it to me to be rebellious.
January 18, 2008 at 12:13 am
I am always terrified of counting those points when I realize that I regularly consume 50-75 of them per day.
January 18, 2008 at 2:38 am
I think it’s going to be difficult to keep up with the points tracker once I’m back at work, but right now it helps me to be conscious of what I’m eating. So when I ate that almond croissant today, at least I KNEW I was putting 5+ points in my mouth!