Day 4

I was finally able to get the Weight Watchers app loaded on my phone.  Played around with it today. It is pretty slick.

One of the features is a bar code reader that, if the item is in the system, will tell me how many points a serving is. How cool is that?

I made few things from the new cookbook and have left overs for lunch tomorrow. The chicken salad with cucumber yogurt sauce is AMAZING!!  Two points a serving and one serving with a bowl of fruit more then filled me up!

Lunch was the left over chili's chicken fajita's but I did top it with real sour cream. Just counted the points.

Now that the outside challenges are out of the way, I can focus on the daily and weekly goals.

Other than following the food plans and tracking I haven't really set a 'weekly' goal. I want that to be other than food focused but still related- if you know what I mean. So for this week I am working on tracking ALL food- not just the food that has points. All food has calories.

What I'm hoping, by tracking all food, is that, when I reach a plateau or not loosing weight after a bit, I can look back and see where I may need to make more changes to my habits.

This week is of course the 4th of July week. The 4th happens to land on my regular meeting day so I am looking for other meetings to attend this week.  I don't want to stop the momentum that I have going now.

Some of the things I have done for this coming week to help me stay on track: clean and prepared all the fresh berries so they are ready to eat: meals planned for the week: No outside challenges this week to plan for.

This week's mantra: I got this.

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