Reflections on the first week

The first week of being on the Weight Watchers plan is now complete and I officially had a great first week. The cool thing was, I felt great about my week before I jumped on the scale this morning, and here's why:

This weight loss attempt feels really different, and I have a sense of confidence that this time its going to stick over the long haul. Its a strange, but very welcome new feeling. I truly think that just starting this blog and being more open about things with people I trust (even if only a few people actually read it) was an extremely important step for me and may just end up being the difference that makes the difference for me.

With regards to the actual plan, I am finding that I am satisfied with smaller portions, which is similar to what happened with me last time I did WW. I remember feeling last time that I sort of "re-set" my expectations about food and what would fill me up. One of the main problems for me is that even though I eat quite healthy most of the time, I can easily eat twice or three times as much food as I need to be satisfied, without realizing I'm full. Like, hey guess what, grilled cheese and avocado sandwiches on wheat bread are healthy buuuuut I probably do not truly need 3, even though I can eat that much without really being stuffed. Over the past week I ate moderate portions of lots of fruits and veggies and other filling and good foods and was able to fit in a few desserts, Chinese food one day at lunch, and a few glasses of wine thrown into the mix. I never went to bed hungry, but also never felt stuffed.

Overall, I'm finding the tracking process pretty easy and have found some really good options for snacks. My favorite is plain greek yogurt (stay with me, I know it tastes like sour cream) with frozen blueberries and granola. The blueberries add a nice amount of sweetness so I find I really don't need the added sugar of sweetened yogurt!

Since fruits are now zero points on the WW plan (I heart this so much), its easy to feel satisfied as long as I keep a stock of fruits around. This week the staples were bananas, frozen blueberries, and fresh cherries. 

Speaking of cherries, I swallowed a cherry pit by accident (snacking of them while making my "breakfast for dinner" last night). I figured it was fine but just to double check I googled "what happens if you swallow a cherry pit?" and got all of these sites saying how it was poisonous! Quite alarming until I read enough down that you really have to chew on like a massive amount of cherry pits to release enough cyanide toxic crap to hurt ya, but it did cause a mini panic for a second there.

Aaaand I'm definitely still obsessed with avocadoes. Below is a picture of my spinach, feta, avocado and red pepper salad. Yes folks, I've become that person who takes pictures of her food...