You may remember me telling you a story about when Fatass was a Pleasantly-Plump-Little-Girl of about 10 and Fatass' Mother took Fatass to a Weight Watchers meeting. Fatass thought this was the weirdest thing and told her Mother it was like a convention of fat people and all they talked about was food.
Fast-forward 40 years and here we are. Seester and FFM-Laurie have both joined WW and have each lost over 20lbs. Fatass is very jealous...but in the most supportive kind of way. Fatass is starting to think this may not be such a bad idea, even though we know what happens when you stop doing WW. That said, she joined online WW and will attend her first convention of fat people on Saturday morning.
Some of you fatties out there probably know a little bit about how WW works...it's based on a point system. You get a bunch of points based on your weight and you log the foods you eat and shouldn't go over your points per day. So, Fatass gets to eat 26 points of food/drink per day. Most fruits and veggies are zero points so you can eat as much of those as you like. The big category points come from fat and bad carbs. Now, in addition to those 26 points, you get bonus 49 points to use throughout the week. Evidently, these are referred to as "Drinking Points" but you can use them for any kind of food/drink. Oh, did I mention I'm drinking? Yeah, that whole not drinking thing was stupid and so not fun.
Anyway, there are also "Activity Points". These points are earned by exercising. So, check it out:
Hard to read, but this is what I've had for breakfast and lunch. I've used 3 points out of my 26. You'll notice the weekly points that are supposed to be 49 are 38 and that I used to have 3 activity points. Why you may ask? I will tell you...Poco-Poppy and I attended one of our exhibit openings here at work. Graphic-Poppy and Designer-RayRay worked on the exhibit. They are very talented people...artists, really. That's why they sleep late, cause they are artists and artists stay up late being artsie.
So, at the opening there was wine and cheese. The wine is 4 points for 5oz and the cheese is 3 points per 1oz. Knowing I was going to be partaking of the wine and cheese, I ate very little pointage yesterday during the day. After it was all said and done, I had to take out a withdrawal from the weekly points bank so that esplains why my 49 points went to 38 and I have no more banked activity points. The good news is those 49 points per week will reset on Saturday. Man, this is getting complicated.
But wait, there's more complication...seeing that Fatass eats primaly, her fat intake is higher than the average WW member and her carb intake is way lower than the average WW member.
Here's today's breakfast:
Seriously no different than I would normally eat for breakfast...well, there might be some cheese involved. I think the biggest challenge will be portion controlling my fats (meat, glorious, meat) and my wine but it's totally doable.
Exercise, of course, is key. I figure, what better way to get exercise than to enlist my new workout buddy, Run-Like-The-Wind-Jax. So, that's what I did.
Yesterday morning, I set the alarm for 6:30am. Since I hate waking up to an alarm, I always wake up before it goes off. I woke up at 6:15. Like Poppy-The-Artist, I wanted to go back to bed. I laid there trying to self-talk myself into getting up...and I did. I got up and turned off the alarm. This is where Run-Like-The-Wind-Jax hops out of her bed raring to go...only this time, she just turned over and went back to sleep. My immediate thought is GIFT and I reset the alarm and climbed back into bed.
Now I'm laying there thinking what kind of unsupportive workout buddy do I have?? Yeah, so, I get back out of bed, turn off the alarm and pry the little dog out of her bed. Once she figured out we were going for a very brisk walk, in the wee dark hours of the morning, she was beside herself with joy. A good workout buddy after all! That half-hour of brisk walking earned me 3 activity points...which I drank away last night.
There you have it, I'll write more after Saturday's meeting when I get weighed in and have to sit through all the other fatties talking about food.
Hey, meet the newest member of our family:
That's right, it's a freakin sock monkey! Primate-Poppy adopted him from the antique store. His name is Pistol-Pete, but I call him Sweetie-Peetie...he's a drunk and needs a sippy cup!
Later!
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