Epic Points Fail

On Wednesday I predicted that my weekly points would end up a 0 since I had so much going on this past week. I am currently at -92 weekly points. That is – as in “minus”… as in “negative”… as in I used up all 49 weekly points and then proceeded to use 92 more.

Yeah, totally shattered that prediction.

On the bright side, that at least means I stuck with tracking everything I ate. I also managed to save myself 4 points by actually earning some activity points! I earned them by going bowling with my mom and cousins, but still, activity points are activity points. And my arm is sore enough that I feel like I truly earned those points.

So how does one proceed to use up all 32 daily points and then eat a total of another 145 points throughout the week?

Things started off well enough on Wednesday. I was encouraged by my 5 pound weight loss. I did my normal breakfast and lunch routine and had 19 points left by dinner time. My mom drove down to visit on Wednesday so we had decided to grab dinner at one of our favorite places: Firehouse Subs. I normally get an Italian sub but this time I opted to get the Engineer sub which is a total of only 19 without mayo. I just couldn’t bring myself to forego the mayo though. I estimated the mayo to be about 6 points (this could be a drastic over-estimation but they do slather it on so it was probably a fair estimation). But all in all, not bad to dip into my weekly points for 6 points to treat myself.

Things only got worse from there.

 I enjoyed some mini cupcakes on my birthday as well as my favorite sub from Jersey Mike’s. I have a strange love affair with their Original Italian sub. It can cheer me up after a tough day and make the world seem like a brighter place. The sub itself is isn’t too bad in the points department. Only 18 without condiments. I could eat that and still have a point left over on most days. But sadly, adding the oil onto a regular sized sub adds an additional 8 points! Someone please tell me this is a miscalculation! The oil makes the sub! It’s just a sad little sandwich without it… not the great and mighty sub it is meant to be. Since it was my birthday though, I decided that I must treat myself to a PROPER Jersey Mike’s sub and there went some more weekly points.

The rest of the weekend was just a steady, downhill slide.

On Friday, I went to the Hot Stove Banquet in Charleston and enjoyed every bit of my meal. I also enjoyed 2 beers (my first beer in over a week people!) That night, after the banquet, I also had some delicious birthday cake and a bit of ice cream. Saturday included lunch at a Greek restaurant (Baklava is a gigantic points bomb, but it was oh so worth it!), Spaghetti and garlic bread for dinner and my favorite dessert- Key Lime Pie. Sunday was just one big points party. For lunch, I had one of my favorite fast food meals: Zaxby’s Wings N Things platter and I ate every last bit (OMG, so worth being fat for that). Later that night was pizza and wine for dinner while watching the Super Bowl. And of course I couldn’t just let that pizza and wine go to waste so I finished all that off for dinner last night.

Although it ended up being a terrible week for WW points, it was a great week for me. I know I will probably pay for all that by undoing my progress from last week but I think it was definitely worth it!