Momma's on a Diet: Week 2 Weigh-In

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12 Feb 2007 04:19 AM

Following the huge 8 lb loss last week, I was a little concerned this week that despite sticking to my Weight Watchers program and not going over my allocated points at all, I wouldn't have lost any weight. I didn't expect to have gained weight, but the most I figured to have lost was about 1 lb. My logic on this is that I lost so much in week 1 that my body would need to adjust to this before losing anything more.

It was with some relief that when I stood on the scales, (and found the courage to open my eyes and looked at the numbers) I discovered that I hadn't just lost the 1 lb I anticipated, but that I'd actually lost 5lb. I double checked the numbers just to make sure that it wasn't just a faulty weight because I was holding my breath or something like that, but the numbers held. Week 2 weight loss - 5 more unwanted pounds gone!

The Weight Watchers points system is really working for me. Sometimes it gets a little difficult because I live in a country where they only give the combined fat totals on the nutrition labels rather than breaking it down so that you can see what the saturated fat value is - WW points are calculated using calories and saturated fat totals. What I tend to do is to either take 10% of the fat value of something if it isn't something apparently high in fat, or I'll calculate 50% of the given fat value if it's something that looks as if it holds a high fat content. I know it's a guessing game and that I could get it wrong, but usually that error would go in favour of the weight loss as I tend to guess over the amount of points required rather than under. This means that I probably eat a couple of points below my daily allocation - and that's a good thing! Besides, it's obviously working, so I'm not going to complain.

Here's to another successful week of pound dropping next week!

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Check out my other blog entries here at families.com - you'll find me in the Disney Blog! and my weight loss progress is being blogged here at families.com in Momma's on a Diet!

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Hi,I'm a work at home mom of 2 preschoolers, Jake and Connor, and wife to Mikael.

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