It has been five days now since I joined Weight Watchers, and I have to say I am LOVING IT!!!!! I can not believe I am actually FULL on this, and have not gone over or used my extra weekly points yet! I celebrated my Birthday on Monday, and I had all the intentions of using my "extra points" to splurge on something sweet for dessert (since it's MY celebration as mentioned in my previous post). I ended up enjoying lunch AND dinner out. Since I knew we were going to be eating out I decided to choose a low point breakfast. I enjoyed my favourite fish and chips at our local Scottish Pub and savoured EVERY bite of it without feeling ANY guilt what so ever! When I got home I pre planned my dinner meal/restaurant. I chose Swiss Chalet and went on the website to calculate different meal options. I COULD have used my "extra points" but decided I would save it for dessert. I used the advice from the amazing Souls at our meeting and planned my meal ahead of time, so I didn't need to open the menu and be tempted when I got there (and I wasn't tempted at all - likely because I felt yucky from all the grease at lunch so the thought of fries didn't even enter my mind). I was SO PROUD of myself for doing this, as in the past I would celebrate my birthday for SEVERAL days when on a "lifestyle change". I also calculated all the dessert options, but was so disgusted at how many points they were (one of my favourites that I would get is 52 points :O !!!!!! That's MORE than my DAYS TOTAL that I am allowed!) that I decided I did not want to use my extra points and "splurge". To be honest I think I "passed" on the desserts as I WAS allowed them, so they no longer tempted my taste buds like they would have in the past. I didn't feel deprived at all (other than the veggies were not cooked right and so I missed out on part of my meal - I know - how on earth can you mess up veggies?). The rest of the week went just as good. I am LOVING finding out the point value on things - most SHOCK me (could not believe ONE of my favourite cookies we get every holiday season that are decorated according to the holiday are NINE points EACH ..... do you know how many of these I would have in one day (heck one hour!) - sure made me not even want to have a taste of one!). The best part is, I always mention to my family how much points are, and now my one son even asks me the odd time how much points are for certain things, so it's making him more aware. I am so curious to see at this weeks meeting how I have been doing on the scale, as to me it feels like I am eating MORE than before (it's almost like "too good to be true" feeling). I haven't been able to add in my 30 mins of exercise YET as I have been battling some kind of bug or something since we returned from holidays and feel totally off, so once I start that I am sure I will get even better results. But for now I still just take it "one day at a time" and don't stress over the small things that I have yet to do. I KNOW this journey is still about the whole BODY/MIND/SPIRIT and I have other things I have to "Work on" besides my food, and I look forward to incorporating all that in as well in due time. But for now I just enjoy this and allow "onion layers" to continue to "peel and heal" as I walk this journey.