24th April 2014
Being yourself is the new black!
Yesterday was a ridiculously busy day, in addition to my
own morning and night meetings, I covered a lunchtime meeting for a leader who
was poorly, which meant I never stopped all day really until I got home at gone
8pm.
I’d planned on cooking a chicken curry, I just didn’t get
round to it, I did manage to get a chicken casserole in the oven in 8 minutes
though, mom chopped the onions so it’d been ten I guess has I done it all
myself, that should satisfy me at lunch today.
Knowing I wasn’t going to have time I used it as an
excuse to have a KFC on my way back from the 2nd meeting of the day,
I was good though I only had 2 pieces, it’s more expensive to buy a one person
meal which is why so many buy huge bargain buckets!
Large fries 13pp
Corn cobette 4pp
2 portions chicken 13pp
Sauce 2pp
OUCH, 31pp
for one meal, that wasn’t as delicious as I’d hoped! The reason I ended up in that KFC was it was
the one we’d gone to after our sponsored walk last September and I said it was
the best I’d ever had, turns out that was a one off, probably because we were
so ravenous after a 15 mile walk. Hey
ho, it’s out of my system; at least I waited 7 months before having it and I’ve
realised it wasn’t worth 31pp!
I’ve mentioned we’re talking routines this week, I’m sat
here sipping my pint of water, I had the corn with my KFC to count as my
portion of veg with my meal - ridiculous I know when I’d just consumed 31pp but
at least I tried! The other routine I’m
going to do this week is to ask myself if what I’m about to eat is worth the
ProPoints values – I can think of at least 2 occasions this week where the
answer would most definitely have been no, the cake at the café on Saturday –
not only wasn’t that work the ProPoints, it wasn’t worth the price, I’m still
smarting at spending £9.80 on 2 slices of cake and 2 lattes in a garden centre café!
Why is this a good question to ask yourself? Because it makes you more mindful of the
choices you make. When you’re face with tempting
food that’s high in ProPoints, not only do we choose to ‘forget’ to track them
but we don’t even enjoy them to much if we’re honest.
Asking this question isn’t just a good thing to do before
you eat, it’s a good question to ask whilst eating and after you’ve eaten. Because the cake Saturday for example LOOKED
like it was going to be worth every ProPoint, when I started eating it, once I
stopped long enough to actually taste it, once I got passed the bit where my
brain was still just focusing on how ‘nice’ it looked and when I stopped
chatting to my bestie long enough to actually acknowledge let the taste of the
cake, I realised if it wasn’t for the cream on it, the cake was pretty much
boring as! Then after when I felt sick, despite having left some, I most
certainly realised it wasn’t worth the ProPoints and I wouldn’t be making that
choice again in the future.
It may be that it is worth the ProPoints in which case
maybe have a smaller slice or share with a friend, even my bestie left some and
she’s a real cake head.
So they are my three routines for the week, drink more
water / fruit & veg with every meal / ask myself if what I’m eating is
worth the ProPoints.
It’s also good to work out the ProPoints before eating it
to ask yourself ‘is it worth that much?” Before you start eating, put a number
on it, or if you can’t find it have a good guess, don’t make up a silly low
number to justify eating it!
If you have a Monthly Pass and have access to the online
esource you can read more about routines at http://www.weightwatchers.co.uk/Plan/ResourceCenter/Routines/index.aspx
Enjoy your day and think about what you’re eating before
you eat it!
Eat Gorgeous BeYOUtiful.
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