A new approach to counting Points
I am going to start thinking of my points allowance as a weekly amount. I get 196 points per week (23 points/day + 35 weekly points). That’s 28 Points/day on average. I think that is easier for me to think about than the nebulous 35 Points/week. What happens with me and those 35 Points is I don’t keep track of them, I just use them whenever I go over my daily points. It’ll be 9:00 and my daily points will be long gone and I’ll just grab a snack thinking to myself, “oh, I’ve got the 35 weekly points.” I’ve been blowing through those by the day after weigh in! I think by just allotting my 35 point allowance evenly over the 7 day week, ON AVERAGE, it will be easier for me to be aware of where those extra points are being used. I say “on average” because if I have 32 points one day, that doesn’t mean I “went over” as long as on another day of the week I have 24 points. So my inner dialogue will change from “i’ve got the 35 points so I can eat whatever I want” to “is it worth it to have extra points today if it means i have to have fewer points tomorrow?” If this is at all confusing, I’m hoping to illustrate how it will work over this week:)
Today I had:
half of low fat banana muffin and coffee: 6 Pts
low fat vegetarian chili and corn salsa: 7 Pts
chocolate: 4 Pts
mini bagel and peanut butter: 7 Pts
veggies and peanut butter: 3 Pts
South Beach pizza, ff/sf ice cream bar: 8 Pts
30 Day Shred workout: 2 APs
Total: 35 - 2 = 33 Pts
*So I’m over the average daily points allowance by 5 Points. I can make those up by having 27 Points for 5 days, or by having 23 Points tomorrow.