Take THAT You Stalled-Out Scales!!

Yes. Yes, I did!!

I determined on Sunday, August 29 to eat ONLY my daily POINTS® for the week and to only eat out at two places where I could get items that were very easy to know the exact POINTS value.

You see, when I started my journey on December 12, 2009, I only ate my daily POINTS and ate out very sparingly. For the first 5 or so months, I only touched my weekly POINTS ever other week when I went to visit my Mom (My favorite BBQ restaurant--see picture--is located in the town where she lives. Now that's probably all my weekly POINTS and then some right there.) and, thus, pretty much never touched my activity POINTS. Well about mid-June that seemed to change. And once mid-July rolled around, I realized recently when looking back over my trackers, I had started eating most of my available POINTS each day/week.

What was happening on those scales each week? Well, on June 12th, I lost 6.6 pounds but between June 12th and August 28th, I only lost 4.4 pounds. A loss is a loss and I'm grateful for every ounce lost; however, I still have a long journey to be choosing to take the "scenic route" down the scale.

Something had to change.

Did I want to continue my "scenic route" down the scales? Was I happy with my progress? Was I willing to push the POINTS limit and take this journey nice and slow.

No, I was not.

So, I had a choice to make.

Thus, the choice to pull back the POINTS-reigns and eat only my dailies and limit the places and times each week when I eat out of other people's pots. You see, for me to have control over the goes into my mouth and to know for sure the POINTS value, I must choose control over the preparation of it. Simple as that. I must CHOOSE to take back the control of the pots I eat from.

And, change it did.

I made the choice.

So, the scales had to give it up and honor my hard work. I lost 5.8 pounds at weigh-in on September 4th.

Now, on to week two of holding on to the POINTS-reigns. Will I lose another 5+ pounds this week? Probably not. But, I will know that I did what I needed to do to move on down the scales.

Yes, I choose to remain diligent about my POINTS guarding and limiting the number of times I eat out of other people's pots. I choose close control again over my POINTS.