Weight Watchers seems to work for me! 9/27

OK so I haven't been blogging much lately, but not because I have fallen apart. Instead, Drew and I decided to join Weight Watchers online. What they offer is a point system that helps you monitor your food intake and puts you on a limit. For me, I am allowed 24 points/day to spread out however I want. I'm also allowed 35 additional points called "Weekly Point Allowance" that I can use however I want spread throughout all days. We started on Tuesday night, 9/12. At that time, I weighed 197 naked. What started this was that with clothes on, I weighed 200!! I have never weighed that. What I am really getting out of this is more of a lesson in how to be more aware of my food intake quantities and how bad some things are compared to others.

So I began 9/12 at 197. My weigh in dates are each Saturday, but since the first Saturday was less than a week out, I wasn't allowed to weigh in that date. The next weigh in was 9/23, at which I was 188. So in 1 1/2 weeks, I lost 9 pounds. 4 days later and now I am at 186. This is a good sign. So 11 pounds lighter, I begin to feel my clothes loosen up and that motivates me more. Since I track everything I eat, anytime I feel as though I may go over in points, I force myself to exercise. I do exercise anyway, but on that specific day it is mandatory. Even if that only means running for 30 mins. Another benefit of this is that I am now eating more vegetables. Ugh. I still don't like them, but hey, I should probably try and prevent cancer anyway I can.

I am still swimming and my two current goals are doing well. The first one was to focus on more backstorke this season. I am doing that, and it is beginning to show as my times are getting faster and faster in the water. The real test will be this December at our meet. The other goal was to do the 200 fly. And that will happen THIS SUNDAY! Ugh. I have only done 1 200 fly in the past 16 years, and that was last year. And boy, that was NOT pretty. I am tossing around the idea of wearing my fastskin suit for this event to get a good time in for the year and to help me stay afloat. That last 50 is going to be scary!!! Help!!