The difference between the impossible
and the possible lies in a person's determination. Tommy Lasorda
5 + 5 +
6 + 6 + 5 + 2 + 6 + 5 = 30
It does if you're a leader doing lunch with another leader! It's called the rounding up rule ;-)
It does if you're a leader doing lunch with another leader! It's called the rounding up rule ;-)
You
should have heard the conversation in Pizza Hut yesterday between me and my
bestie as we worked out the ProPoints in out lunch, I hadn’t got the eating out
guide in my bag, only the phone app because we had intended to go to McDonalds
and I would’ve know the ProPoints in that meal.
So we’re sat there eating the pizza above half vegetarian / half pepperoni,
large thin crust Italian. I’m scrolling
through the options on the Weight Watcher app and said the veggies 5pp, and the
pepperoni is either 5 or 7 a slice, Lynnes reply “5 then”, so we did 4 slices
of pizza in our heads as 20, I said “then the salad”, she replied “5”, I said “it
say’s the coleslaw on its own is 5 so that’s easily 10pp”, her reply, “7
altogether then”. So if you’re keeping
up that’s 27 in her head at the moment, I then said “then our bottle of bud
about 5”, her reply, “30”, we both burst out laughing, I asked how she’d got
thirty from 27 + 5, her reply, it’s the rounding up rule! When your out for lunch if its under 35 you
round it down to 30! You gotta love our
logic ;-)
The reality of the situation after looking it all up in my eating out guide (which I shall be leaving in my handbag in future) was;
2
slices of pepperoni = 12
2
slices of veggie = 10Salad station (per spoonful)
Coleslaw = 5
Potato salad ½ spoon = 2
Couscous ½ spoon = 3
Sweetcorn ½ spoon = 1
Actual Salad = 0
Bottle Budweiser 330ml = 4
Total =
37pp
But you
gotta love the leaders logic to lunch!
You may not lose weight if you follow it but hey ho! I have to say I really enjoyed the pizza,
wished I’d have gone without the salad bar - what a waste for 11pp, I could’ve
had the Starter Texan BBQ chicken wings for 9pp or I could have just had the
pizza and been totally satisfied as I was and then I would’ve only used 26pp
from my weekly allowance and it was delicious.
On the
other hand I have to say I couldn’t bring myself to reheat the steak and Guinness
pie, I just didn’t fancy it at all so mom had some and Alfie had the meat. I refuse to eat something these days that
doesn’t turn me on, I only get 3 meals a day and I’m not wasting any of them
that’s roughly 15, 530 meals if I live another 40 years! Yep I’ve done the math ;-) I likes food!
Anyway
I went to my meeting prior to the meal and it was of course about having your
essential weight loss kit with you for when you were out and about (kinda
failed on that afterwards I’m aware but it’s under control). So my leader is explaining how if you have
your eating out guide with you when you go in Asda or M&S café because you’ve
been out longer than anticipated or because you’re meeting a friend for a catch
up, you may want to enjoy a slice of cake, having your eat out guide with you
gives you the knowledge you need to make the better choice, i.e. carrot cake in
Asda 18pp, chocolate brownie 7pp,
Victoria layer cake in M&S 18pp, Iced bun 7pp. That to me made sense, if I fancy a bit of
nice I’m going to opt for the lower choice, last Saturday I actually took the
Weight Watcher fudge with me when we had coffee and saved even more
ProPoints. Well a woman at the back of
the room commented, “I have to disagree with you, I wouldn’t have found myself
in that situation, and if I had I’d have eaten a banana from my handbag. You have to have a certain degree of self
control.” Mmm I have to say that’s a wonderful
theory in an ideal world but in my world I want cake sometimes, I want to be
indulgent and enjoy this weight loss journey I’m on and have long term
success. I don’t want to eat a banana
with my coffee and the majority of people I know don’t either!
So in
my handbag for next Saturday I shall have my eat out guide and my box of Weight
Watcher bars, I can imagine eating one of those instead of cake but the banana,
nah that’s staying at home in the fruit bowl for on top of my porridge!
Enjoy
what looks like it’s going to be a super sunny Sunday!
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