The Lychee Martini, while a delicious accompaniment to maki rolles and seaweed salad at a friend's goodbye dinner, cost me twice the points as a glass of white wine would have. Lesson learned: I went to bed starving that night.
The spicy maki rolls are twice the points of the regular maki rolls. Noted.
I ate a "tartlette" following a professor's book reading yesterday. The tartlette was no more than three inches in diameter, two bites of creamy, silky custard bedding two single slices of strawberry and kiwi. In trying to find a "dessert" point equivalency through the WW website, I found that this may be as much as a quarter of my daily allotted point values. Used my weekly "supplemental" points so I could have a soup and cracker mini-meal before bed so I wouldn't go to bed as I had earlier in the week.
Veggies and fruits are free, of which I am suspicious. Fruit matters when you are trying to lose weight and/or when you have trouble metabolizing sugars. I am still keeping my fruit to 2-3/day. Slight distrust of system.
Shelled soybeans and avacado are not free. Avacado was not a surprise here but the soybeans were, as I discovered in putting together my sobe noodle, soybean, steamed veggie lunch.
The makeup of the WW website is such that processed, manufactured food is the easiest, quickest way to keep track of your "points". This is a problem. Individually trying to build every combination of foods I eat because I choose local restaurants and often vegetarian options is time-consuming.
I'm still playing around with the "activity tracker", which I don't understand. Limited options of activities that don't include power yoga (pretty sure the website only understands yoga as meditation) and resistance weight-training via balance ball. Many of the activities that I'm allowed to do with my hips are un-trackable.
Final reflections: I have found myself drinking less alcohol and eating more vegetables, both of which are steps toward balance. I am going to talk to my acupuncturist tomorrow about any sort of appetite moderation work but in the meantime, I'm off to finish my buddha tattoo.
Um I have problems with Yoga too on my workout schedule. My mobile fit counts it as cardio, but I don't think it should be cardio. Even though I have trouble with asthma attacks during it, but I know it isn't raising my heart rate enough to consider it cardio. I hope you get it figured out. I also had problems with the processed meals for weight watchers, because I lost more weight when I went to a no processed food diet and it was all because of the sodium in those meals. If you ever look at the sodium on those lean cuisines, you would be flabbergasted. People wonder why they don't lose weight on them. Good luck with your WW this week!
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