My Weight August 10, 2007 154.0

I am very proud of myself for two reasons, even though i was up a full pound. This is because of these 2 huge challenges i faced.

1) Thursday, i had my all time favorite chef (Chris Dewart) at our test kitchen for an important food sampling to hopefully sell him a lot of our foods at the absolutely fabulous restaurant he is opening. (La Scola Italian Grille, Airport Highway.) Anyway, the weight watchers success in all of this is that i truly limited myself to tasting only items i had never tasted before, or had only tasted a long time ago and needed a reminder of what the item tastes like. And even then, i kept my servings small. This was the least i had ever eaten at a kitchen demonstration even though the foods served were far and away my favorite. (I LOVE fancy foods, but i make it work on this program.)

2) Friday we had our sales meeting, which is all afternoon non stop food samplings. Here, they were rolling out new items so i had to try everything as part of my job. True, no one forces you to eat, i could have declined, but for one day a month of a points catastrophe to be able to speak confidently about our new items and sell them the other 29 days of the month is worth it for me. And i did the most careful tracking of what i ate and put a huge dent on my flex points and exercised on a friday nite which i do not always do.


Another first: I believe this is the first time i actually attended my weight watchers meeting immediately following this food frenzy. And i was wearing JEANS! so the fact that i was up one pound is really not so bad and i believe if i keep on tracking i will reach my goal!