Weight Watchers Goal #1

Today I reached a Weight Watcher’s goal of having lost 5% of my starting weight. No, you don’t need to do the math on that. 🙂

How did I do it? Apparently by eating more this week than I’ve been eating the last several weeks. You see this week I ate all my daily points allowance plus all my weekly points allowance then I ate some more.

Weight Watcher’s let’s you do that by giving you credit for your activity as well as your food. So when I went over my weekly points, I did enough exercise to bring my balance from negative 2 points back to zero. And I lost 1 1/2 pounds!

Does that make sense? Maybe. You see, if you don’t eat enough food, your body thinks you are living in a famine so it stores calories more efficiently. By increasing what I ate my body may have said the famine is over so it can go back to sloughing off those extra calories.

So, I need to keep eating those fruits and veggies that are zero points because those calories count even if the points don’t. Apparently, I can’t get enough calories while staying within my points allowance by being a carnivore. 🙂

Yes, the exercise might have had something to do with it as well. But, I have to be careful there. I know from reading WW blogs that there are people who justify terrible eating by doing lots of exercise. I don’t want to become one of them. But, there’s probably no danger of me exercising too much, right? 🙂

TTYL,

Linda

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