Better points yesterday AND the gym today! Getting the hang of this...maybe.

Well, I've finished a full half week in this thing. That must be worth something. I had an inkling to weigh myself today ("I wonder if any thing is working?") but I'm really going to try to stick to the once-a-week weigh in. It's too easy to go up or down one day to the next, and that's not a great way to measure progress.

Let's start with yesterday's ww points:

Breakfast: 2% cottage cheese and pineapple tidbits
Lunch: sandwich thins, deli select honey roasted turkey, sargento reduced fat colby-jack (1 slice), stonyfield fat-free black cherry yogurt
Dinner: Healthy Choice Pumpkin Ravioli meal (i enjoyed it)
Snacks/Desserts: 100 cal pack Emeralds Cocoa Roast Almonds, 1 cup cut watermelon, 24 Special K Crackers (Italian Herb and Tomato), Skinny Cow low fat fudge bar

Total Points: 19 (better, but still not 20)

Today all in all was pretty good. I brought my own breakfast in, even though I had a meeting this morning with breakfast provided. Decided I didn't want to tempt myself with a chocolate filled croissant (always available in this twice-a-month meeting).

I had a good e-mail chat with a friend also on WW, and we were lamenting about the challenge of trying to get protein into our diets. I figured that, without a real meat-based (chicken) entree, I was probably getting a max or 25 or so grams of protein a day. I know this is not enough. I decided to get a little better prepared to face that. Tonight, despite it being a thousand degrees, I decided to bake chicken tenders (that's paprika you see), and separate out into 3 ounce serving bags, so I have them to grab and either eat as is or throw in with something else. I was able to make 9 of those bags. I also made a dozen hard boiled eggs. So, that should help me out the next few weeks.

In other news, I went back to the gym again tonight, another 30 minutes of cardio. This time, did the regular (not recumbent) bike, and the elliptical. I don't like the elliptical. I feel a little bit out of control on it. I probably am either doing it wrong, or have it on the wrong setting or something. I suppose there's an opportunity for improvement for me.

My next planned exercise is Saturday. Robert and I will take the bicycles out and go for a ride on the Minuteman bike path. I'll shoot for 10 miles. We'll see how it goes! If the weather turns bad, I'll end up at the gym, but I'm really hoping to get out and enjoy the bike!

Thanks for reading!