Tonight concludes my second week of following the Weight Watchers POINTS program.  As I mentioned last week, I have a fair amount to lose.  Through some research, I decided that WW would be the tool I could use to find my solution.  After living with the program another week, I still think it is the right tool for me.  I am so glad that I found it, and that my friend KC is right there beside me to offer support and encouragement.

I had another pretty good week.  Not stellar, but considering some of the lessons I learned, it was pretty gosh-darn great.   I’ve learned to calculate POINTS on everything.  And I do mean everything.  Also, it would be wise to calculate them prior to eating them.  Here’s why:

Hubby and I had a date night at Pizzaria Uno’s in Fort Worth last week.  I had a salad and two slices of pizza.  Now, I know that pizza is not the healthiest food, but I also know that WW will allow a little flexibility.  So, I had two wonderful, delicious slices of the Chicago Classic Deep Dish Pizza – which is the pizza Hubby and I share whenever we go there.  (Luckily for me, we only go once or twice a year.)   Anyway, when I got home I looked up the nutritional information for the Chicago Classic.

Do you care to make any guesses about how many calories are in ONE slice of this amazingly-delicious pizza?

500?

600?

700?

Nope, its MORE!

There are 770 calories in ONE slice of this pizza.  And I had TWO!  Now the good news is that because I knew I would have to write down what I ate, I only had two slices instead of three.  And truth be told, I was feeling quite full with the two – so I’m glad I didn’t have that third one.

Although once I learned the POINT values, I nearly passed out when I went to write down on my tracker how many points I ate at dinner that night.  But, I behaved quite well the rest of the week.  And, drum roll please…

I lost 1.8 pounds this week.  Bringing my two week total to 5.6 pounds, which puts me right in line with what all doctors/experts/health gurus say about healthy weight loss (i.e. right around 2 lbs. per week).

Yay, me!

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