Today, I was once again reminded of the importance of planning ahead, as well as making sure you have information available. Lunch made me think back to a couple of weeks into my journey when I unknowingly ate a 32 point baked potato for dinner.
Today, after a mid-morning doctor appointment, my husband and I decided to go to Pei Wei for lunch. For those of you who haven't heard of Pei Wei, it's PF Chang's fast food restaurant. My mom and I had gone a few weeks ago for lunch, so I thought I had saved the nutritional information in my WW app on my phone. Well, we got to the restaurant and I found out that I did not have it saved. I didn't feel like searching all the way back to try to find the date we went, so I ordered what I thought wouldn't be too bad. I normally get the mongolian shrimp, but I didn't want all of the sodium from the sauce since I have to weigh-in tomorrow morning. I got a cup of hot and sour soup and 4 crab wontons. I knew the soup was higher there than other restaurants, but I couldn't remember the points exactly. I know on the old program the crab wontons weren't that horrible either, and I knew I could keep my sodium down as well.
After we got done eating, my husband found an app on his phone that has Pei Wei's nutritional information. The soup was 5 points. That's not a huge deal, I had 17 available for lunch. Then I looked at the crab wontons. Well, come to find out, 4 of them are 9 points. Ouch! I mean, in the grand scheme of things it wasn't a big deal. That still left me with 3 points, and I had already entered my dinner, so I didn't have to count that. It actually did fill me up, so I wasn't left hungry. But it just goes to show that you can't guess on points.
I have been doing Weight Watchers for 15 weeks now. There are days when I feel like I'm completely new at it, and I'm really careful about tracking every morsel that goes into my mouth, and making sure I make good, healthy decisions. Then there are days when I'm overly confident, feel like I know it all, and those are usually the days when I eat something without checking the points first, and it burns me.
Tomorrow morning is weigh-in. I know I'm going to be down, which is awesome! I don't want to speculate as to how much because I don't want to be disappointed if I retain water overnight. I stayed completely with-in my points the last couple of days and it's been a pretty good week. I didn't get in as much activity as I would have liked, but that all changes on Sunday. I'll let you know how I do!
so "been there done that"... I had only been on WW for a couple weeks and I was out with a church group. We had Chick-Fil-A and I was doing REALLY well with my points so I splurged on a brownie... without checking the points of course... that stinkin little brownie was 10 points! That was a huge wake-up for me..... Can't wait to hear how it goes in the morning!!!
ReplyDeleteI did that the first morning I was on WW. I stopped and got 2 sausage cheese and jalapeño kolaches for breakfast on the way to clinical and for lunch had a turkey and provolone sandwich from the cafeteria at the hospital. I don't remember the exact points, but dinner that night was a little tricky with the few points I had left!
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