My First Spinning Class Part 1

First, some great Weight Watchers news.  I lost friggen 5.6 pounds in my first week!!!!!!  And I stepped on the scale at least three times to make sure it wasn't playing a mind trick on me.  Color me motivated to keep going.  I know it's likely because I have a long ways to go and the first few pounds just sort of melt off once you stop eating crap (or in my case drinking lots of wine AND eating crap) but I'm still pretty excited.

Anyway, at the gym last night I got a copy of the workout schedules.  Unfortunately there's not much in the way of classes on the weekends.  This prompted me to ask Jess if I could be a Stay at Home Wife in order to lose weight.  The answer, sadly, no.  But they did have three spinning classes - one at 8:10, 9:10 and 10:10.  To me, an intelligent person, it looked like the class at 10:10 (the only one we have a realistic chance of waking up on a Sunday to attend) was only twenty minutes, not fifty minutes like the others.  I have credible evidence to back up this assumption.  The earlier classes all stated "50 minutes" under the class title, whereas the 10:10 class did not.  Most importantly, the box was only shaded to 10:30 in the weekly schedule grid.

Thus, I suggested to Jess we head to the gym today and try spinning.  He loves loves to bike and I figured I could do just about anything for twenty minutes, right?  Oh, how I would learn...

My First Bento and Joining Weight Watchers

For my birthday yesterday I was excited to receive my Mr. Bento.  So excited that I ran out and got fresh tahini to make hummus.  I used this recipe and added some paprika but I'm on the lookout for recipes with a little more zest.  Any tips?  Do I have any readers yet?  Please comment if so!

My birthday also coincided with the day I decided to get off my butt and join Weight Watchers Online.  I've tried and liked Spark People in the past but never followed through with it.  I hope that actually paying for something motivates me to use it more.  Also I've heard so many glowing reviews from WW members so we'll see how it goes during my free trial week.  The system wants me to lose ten pounds as a starting out point but I don't know how long I have to achieve this and it's sort of hard to navigate.  I weigh in on Sunday - wish me luck!

But now onto the food.  Today I packed:

- 1/2 cup Hummus with baby carrots = 7 WW Plus Points (the carrots were 0)
- Apple = 0 WW Plus points
- 1.5 cups tomato soup with skim milk = 5 WW Plus Points
- Grilled Cheese and tomato (small) = 7 WW Plus Points (the tomato was 0)

The Mr, Bento kept the soup and the grilled cheese nice and hot.  I, however, only lasted until 12:30 before eating them.  I had planned on going to the gym right downstairs at work but I forgot my towel.  Boo.  I will go tonight with the H when he gets home.