Lose a little, Gain a little

So I thought that I would at least still have lost for the week and according to my home scale I did lose 2 pounds. I went to Weight Watchers (with the same clothes on) and I weighed in and here are the results:

Last week: 279.4
This week: 280.2
+/- : +0.8 lbs
Total: now +6.8 from start of Weight Watchers

So that is really not that bad. I decided to go through my food journal and see what happened with my week and see where I can change things this week. First of all, Friday was not my first cupcake day. I forgot that I had 2 cupcakes last Saturday. So for this week I am committing to NO CAKE! I also ended up eating out a lot last week. I really need to make sure that I do not have to do that. I do sooooooo much better when I make my food. I also end up eating food that is really filling. So, I went to the grocery store today and stocked up on all kinds of goodies for the week. I bought fresh fruit for the first time in probably at least 2 months. I am going to make sure that I keep tracking because I kind of trailed off at the end of last week. I do think that tracking my food is helping a lot so that I can see where I did not succeed in the previous week. I am proud of myself for going to weigh in even though I knew it was a bad week and I did not let that bad week push me further off course. I was back on plan on Saturday and I think that this will be a good week.

The other problem I have been having is that I am not eating enough during the day. The bulk of my points are being consumed at dinnertime and late night snacks. I need to make sure that I am snacking during the day because I notice that if I don't, I kind of go overboard with dinner. Kind of like tonight. I also need to stop eating so late. All of these things though fall under free time during the day and leaving at a reasonable hour. I am working on making my schedule more reasonable so that I do not go insane by spring break. When I finally take time off work for spring break I will have gone 35 days without a day off. There were a few days scattered amongst weekends where I only needed to go in for 2-3 hours but still. I will be going on a road trip with my friend Lindsey who does not work in my lab or next door to my lab so I will have a beautiful 6 days with no work and no work related talk. Yipee!!

So I will not reach my goal by Spring Break and it would be rather unhealthy for me to try to get to 269 lbs by next Saturday. I want to try and get as close as possible though by the time Lindsey and I leave Dallas (next Tuesday). I am going to try and weigh in Tuesday morning before we get on the road and I will not weigh in again until that Saturday after spring break :)
I am going to be skiing and we will probably be pretty active but I am not sure how several days in a car driving are going to treat me.

So, finally, goals for this week: Try and get that total change from start of weight watchers to be a negative number (or 0) by the time I leave next Tuesday. I am committing to not having any cake this week unless it is one of those 100 calorie packs which do actually satisfy my craving for cake most of the time. Lastly, I want to try and get 28 activity points again this week. I do not think it should be too difficult considering I reached that goal with only doing activity 4 days of the week. So, here's to a good week!