3/30/11 303

Gained 2lbs...but as planned, and as promised, I am still blogging. I am not going to let a little hiccup get in my way.

Well I knew that the time would come when I would "plateau" I tend to do it a little quicker than other people do, I don't know why. There are certain weeks in my cycle that if I am not absolutely perfect in my dieting I will gain weight, this is that week. The good news is that there are also certain weeks in my cycle that I can eat almost anything I want and lose weight. And during those weeks if I really pay attention and stick to the plan I lose a whole bunch. So I won't give up, promise.

Even though I've been losing all along I was feeling like I should be counting or tracking somehow. I kinda had it in my head that the first time I gained weight I would start counting calories. So what I did was join the Weight Watchers online program. I can put my "plan" that I'm going to email to my therapist into their little database (massive database actually) and see that I am within good guidelines. I was kind of impressed to find out that WW doesn't use calories to calculate points anymore, they use carbs/protein/fat/fiber. They've revamped how they calculate points and how many points we get since the last time I did WW. I get 44 points, plus the "bonus" points which works out to about 6 per day! That's a lot of effen points! Although I put my whole plan for tomorrow in there without calculating how many points are in my daily cup of coffee, and it came to 44. Hmmmm, should I dump the Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwich or the cup of coffee? Choices, choices.

So my blood work wasn't horrible. The cholesterol and glucose were "kind of" high, but nothing I need to take medication for, thank god. We'll check those again in a few months and see if there are any improvements. My thyroid hormone is up, which apparently means that my thyroid is slow. My Mother should feel vindicated, she's been blaming my weight on my thyroid my whole life. I had to have more tests done, but I think the doc's going to put me on some thyroid medication. The doc says that thyroid meds will help me lose weight, whoo hoo bring it on.