Weight Watcher Meals, Part 1

I don't pretend to be an amazing cook, or even really a competent cook most days. I live with my sister, who is also doing weight watchers, and she's a pretty fab cook. She makes most of the meals, I do most of the chores. It's a nice trade off :) I was pretty proud of myself last week when I made an entire meal on the grill. People, this is unprecedented. I full on LOOKED up recipes for 2 (!!) different dishes. Yeah. Impressive. I ended up making grilled salmon, asparagus, and grilled corn. The corn was definitely not entirely in season yet, but had promise. Asparagus was perfect and the salmon was...okay. Edible. I was fine with it. This is a sample of some of my meals I've been having on WW- they've all been delicious, easy to make, and totally doable long term.

(Sorry for iphone pics)

Chicken fajita/burrito thing. Grilled chicken, 1/8 cup cheddar cheese, sauted green and red peppers
on a Mission carb balance tortilla. 

Sample snack- cucumbers and cantaloupe.
I've been adding more dairy/protein in the last week
since I've been getting full off of veggies/fruit and concerned
I'm not getting enough calories. 

My breakfast, every morning. Egg salad (2 eggs, fat free mayo) with Sarah Lee 90 cal bread
and cantaloupe. The cantaloupe have been amazing this month. 

Salmon again! With steamed broccoli, cucumber, and potato "chips".

Weight Watchers Week 4

So I started Weight Watchers last month, on the 15th. I've had 3 weigh ins so far, with my fourth fast approaching on Saturday. Deciding on a Saturday meeting was kind of the worst. No going out on  Friday night, and having a bad weigh in puts me in the frame of mind to NOT want to go out Saturday evening. At least it gets my butt out of bed on the weekends.

I've lost 10.4 pounds so far, which has been, in a word, AH-MAHZING. I've been eating fairly good and working out almost every day. I've noticed though that it can be difficult to eat all of my points while still eating healthy. I've read a bunch of the blogs and success stories on weightwatchers.com, and they all say "eat your points" even your weekly and activity points, but I'm afraid of falling back into bad habits. I've cut back on the fruit and veggie consumption and added more dairy and protein into the diet, but I'm still coming up 10 points short almost every day, and that's with what I deem indulgences, like a chocolate bar with my dinner. I feel like I have so many points right now (50) and I know that it's because of my high starting weight, but I have to say, I'm not dreading going down in points. At least until I hit the under 30 point mark. :)

Stats! SW: 326.4 CW: 316

I don't have a goal weight yet. Honestly, it's freaking me out to even be this weight, and if I start to think about how much I have to lose to be at a healthy weight...it's too much. I'm focusing on making healthy changes and taking it one week at a time. I like that WW has mini goals- right now I have my 5% goal I believe, which will be 310.4. Hoping to hit that in the next few weeks. I'll update with progress pics once I actually have some progress to show!