I'm late as usual

Ok, so I realized last week that I was a week behind on my weight loss blog, and I figured I'd catch up on 2 in one week...oops.  So then I realized I was three two weeks behind and decided to combine all three weigh ins.  It literally shows: loss-loss-gain.  Roller coaster story of my weight loss life.  I'm so close to my first ten pounds down I can taste it...uh...I mean....yeah....

Here's the stats from the last few weeks:

8/21/11

Weigh in: 183 lbs

Loss: -.02 lbs

Total down: - 7.8 lbs

8/28/11

Weigh in: 181.4 lbs

Loss: -1.6 lbs

Total down: - 9.4 lbs

At this point, I was like "Whoo hoo!!!  next week I can celebrate my 1st ten down and get another cool star on WW.com!"  And then....

9/4/11

Weigh in: 182.8 lbs

Loss: + 1.4lbs lbs  DAMNIT!

Total down: -8.0 lbs

SO close!!!  Ugh!  The good news is I know exactly what the problem was.  See, WW's new points system give you so many points that it's very easy to abuse that and think you have more than you really do.  I like to keep my extra weekly points as "overdraft protection," if you will.  There's 40-some points for that purpose!  I stopped journaling my food intake around, oh say, Tuesday.  It was downhill.   I knew by Friday after I had a donut and a half that I'd blown my diet.  I hammered the last nail in the coffin with my dinner at Outwest.  Nothing more I could do at that point.  Needless to say, I was not shocked that I'd gained.  I was just mad at myself for being so close and then blowing it.  I'm hoping to do much better this week.