Weight Watchers Is Making My Brain Hurt...And It's Only Day 1...

So I joined Weight Watchers yesterday and ate like a crazy person last night just so I could get it out of my system...today, I spent too much time at two different grocery stores buying stuff so I could make various recipes from my 20 minute meals Weight Watcher cookbook...do you know how long it takes to calculate points for a meal? Like FOREVER. Turns out, like everything uses up my very limited amount of points (22)...my beloved ranch dressing...yeah, that's a whopping 4 points for only 2 Tablespoons...(I probably use like 3-4 tablespoons!)...Pepsi (3 points)...Then I had to do some major math just to eat my lunch...noodles, crushed tomatoes, Parmesan cheese, salad, dressing...since my sauce that I made was a packet of Tastefully Simple combined with a can of tomatoes, I had to do all of the servings (since you know, it's like 3.5 servings per can or whatever), 455/3 = ??? + 180 for 2/3 cup noodles...Accckkk! It's like school revisited...I also ended up with a super bad headache towards the end of the day...which was either a result of the enormous strain on my brain from all that math OR the fact that I didn't have my normal caffeine (pop and/or frappachino)...and speaking of the frappachino, I have decided that Weight Watchers works really well for crazy people such as myself because on my drive to Rainbow today, normally I would be driving my little self through the Starbucks window but instead, I'm thinking, "Yeah right, that drink is going to cost me 7 whole points and that's like 1/3 of my daily points!!"....SUCKS!!! From now on if I want that drink, it's going to have to serve as an actual meal =(

LUCKILY, I have 35 EXTRA points I can use each week...thank goodness for that because I will not be giving up my weekly TON-O-BUTTER/SALT popcorn that I have to get at the movie theater...it'll probably require all 35 points but whatever...I've figured out that each point is worth about 50 calories...so 1750 calories (Chris did this math because my brain is completely worthless at this point so if it's wrong...its on him)...I would imagine that would cover a kiddie popcorn and a small coke...the problem with this week is I went over by 6 points already today (Day 1) AND we have Asher's birthday party this weekend so I might go over that day too...because the only reason I order cakes from the bakery instead of making them is so I can have my yearly (or at this point, 3 times yearly) serving of buttercream frosting!

MAN, I hate keeping track of this...I even refrained from Asher's rolos and Ayris peanut M&M's today...do you know how much willpower that took? Way too much people. Oh what I wouldn't give to be pregnant right now...so I could be cute fat, driving through Starbucks and getting to park in the Soon To Be Mother parking at rainbow. Unfortunately, I gotta lose this stupid weight before I'm gonna get pregnant again...that's the ONLY reason I joined WW...well that, and so I could do it with my friend Michelle...but my eye is on the prize...weight loss = 4th baby. Of course, thinking of even having a 4th baby makes me tired right now! So it's good that I have some weight to lose I guess...because that'll give me a few good months before I tack on pregnancy tired to just normal tired.

As this is already the most boring post ever, I figured I post some statistics below...I'm a part of the MN/DOT community (they give you $10 in Amazon a month to answer a few questions each week) and this was info from today's questionnaire...

~There were 33,808 reported traffic deaths in the US in 2009. That’s down 9.7% from 2008 and is the lowest since 1950.

Okay, that's great and all that it's down 9.7% but, super sucky to think that almost 34K people die each year in cars. Just another reason to stay indoors and never leave your house (which is quite frankly what myself and the three littles will be doing once the snow flies).

~To date, around 85% of Americans wear their seat belts.

This is good news...

K, that's all for now...I know...super boring but that's all that's going on right now...and if I keep having to use my brain like I did today...it might be slow going in the blog world for a bit...