‘This Is Everything I Ate During A Week Of Weight Watchers’
6:30 a.m. I wake up to my first alarm and feel more rested than I have in a while, and yet, it is still dark out and I just don’t want to get up. I take my synthroid medication with some water and get right back in bed ‘cause it’s damn cozy.
7:15 a.m. I get up and dressed into my yoga clothes and make poor man’s shakshuka with a 1/2 cup of tomato sauce (I try to only buy brands that have three grams of sugar or less) and an egg baked in the middle with some red pepper flakes for two points. I add a link of Trader Joe’s chicken apple sausage for four points.
8:30 a.m. On my way to work, I walk by City Bakery, which has insane hot chocolate, and it sounds especially good since it’s a bit chillier than I expected. I get a four-ounce shot of hot chocolate and track seven points for it.
9:00 a.m. Grab my free banana at the office and immediately eat it as I start going through emails. I need to stop doing this, there is no way I was hungry for it yet. I sometimes get this need to finish whatever is in front of me. I fill up a large black coffee. I start out standing but feel I need to sit to go over a project.
12:20 p.m. Get up to grab my salad from yesterday’s leftovers. It’s a salad full of veggies like beets, cucumber, tomatoes, spinach, and celery and just three ounces grilled chicken and 1/8 of an avocado—so it’s a three-point lunch. Get my second tumbler refill of water.
1:15 p.m. Get up for my third water refill and grab hot water for green tea.
1:20 p.m. Someone left out Turkish pistachio sweets portioned in teeny, tiny bites—so I take two and assign them two points each because that’s what I guesstimate for every bite, lick, or taste. I also grab another banana, plus two to bring home for the weekend. I know that eating too many bananas is not what made me gain weight, but I also know having too many in a day isn’t helping me lose. I feel torn about this.
2:30 p.m. Ugh, FINE, I took two more morsels of deliciousness and wasn’t going to write about it. That’s another four points down the tube—specifically, my esophagus.
3:05 p.m. There was some of the Tappo pizza upstairs, but it was only meat-lover’s and I didn’t want to fall down that rabbit hole. I took a plate of the salad with mixed greens, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, and a couple olives instead. Who am I?
5:00 p.m. I get home, put away my groceries and laundry, and decide to make a light dinner. I snack on a hard-boiled egg while making it— two points.
6:00 p.m. Dinner is a spaghetti squash boat with two tablespoons of Trader Joe’s pub cheese, a chopped grilled chicken breast, and melted shredded almond cheese. This totals four points.
7:00 p.m. I go to my hot yoga class. It’s candlelit, dark, and I love to sweat out the week for an hour. Plus, it’s a community class so it’s donation-based.
9:00 p.m. I go to a friend’s comedy sketch show and get two Texas Honey ciders. Feeling a little socially awkward. There goes 12 points.
10:30 p.m. Head to the bar after and get a hot toddy “for my health” ‘cause lots of people have been getting sick at the office. Another four points.
12:30 p.m. After a lonely subway ride home, I start workin’ on my night cheese like Liz Lemon. But seriously, I go to town on what’s left of that bag of shredded almond cheese. It’s just as addictive as the real sh—t. I already had a 40-point day (better than yesterday, but still), so I track it for the following day so I have less to start out with. Technically, it is a new day. I really want to stay within 37 tomorrow.