Just needed to share..............

Well after having achieved my nice 3 stone target on Saturday, I found myself celebrating with lots of thick white (nutritionally derelict)bread - toasted. And then just for laughs I set about a hunk of Cadburys chocolate. How smart and non self destructive am I? In all I went 16 points over my allowance at the weekend and have spent all this week so far clawing them back in points saved and activity points earned. I have 6 more to save/earn before Saturday.

I have to say I am only mildly annoyed with myself. I don't blow out often - I think I needed to indulge those 2 food groups and now I have it out of my system, its back on the straight and narrow for me.

Remind me of this if I am bemoaning a gain or sts this weekend.

Encouraging news on the holiday front though. My good friend and fellow WW buddy has just returned from a lavish 2 week Med cruise with Royal Carribbean. OOOOh the strategising that we had done in advance of her going to minimise the expected gain upon return:
1. Weigh yourself at home before you go so you will know your "home scales weight" if not the ww ones
2. Make use of the on board gym
3. Join in all the pool activities
4. Try to exercise restraint with the food - at the very worst have a good day after a bad day.
5. Have a really good week in the lead up to going on holiday - you won't be weighed in that week so you will hopefully have a couple of pounds lost that WW won't really know about.
6. The promenade deck is a mile long - walk the circuit at least once after dinner.
7. You will have a full week to be a WW angel before you have to face the music and officially weigh in again.

Well all good intentions went to pot on day 2 (having been only 6 points over on day 1). The upshot is her home scales were showing a 9.5lb gain as at Saturday night, and she reckons she has lost 5.5lbs just by behaving herself since then. Of course, this is all semantics and the real results can only be revealed this Saturday at class. But good to know that a rapid gain can be followed by a fairly rapid loss.

All the same, I do not want a gain that big when I get my own holiday in November.

Caught part of an episode of Biggest Loser US on Sky last night - looked like the 1st weigh in. Have to say I'm hooked already - even if I can't quite condone the methods, you'd have to be a rock or something not to feel the joy and despair of these individuals as they battle the bulge.