Danielle's mission slimpossible

Howdy! I am finally posting  about my weight watchers journey. I haven't been doing it very long.
I started this journey to support my sister and because nothing else I had tried had worked for me. I am starting on the downhill side of my 30's and am learning that it only gets harder to loose it the older I get.  For the sake of getting to know one another, I am a soon to be 37 year old mother of 2 boys ages 8 and 5! I have never been terribly active as far as running or playing sports goes. I am more of a bookish, crochet junky who loves her geeky TV shows i.e. Dr. Who, and The Blacklist, just to name a few and to keep this blog post on the shorter side. Since having my first child 8 years ago I have only continued to gain weight. Over the last 2 years I have managed to loose 5 pounds a year according to my Dr. but hey maybe I was just having a good weight day on those days ;)
So I started on January 4th of this year. I weighed 184 pounds give or take a few ounces. My goal weight is 140. So my first week I totally rocked it out of the ballpark and lost 5lbs!!! I was so totally stoked (wait do people even use that word anymore or am I dating myself?) Excited, lets go with excited! I was totally excited.
The next week I only lost 2 pounds. Not sure why, I haven't had the time to go back and look at my tracking that week, So it could be something I was eating or perhaps I went over my points allowance that week. I am also not working out as of yet.
The next week was even worse because I gained those 2 pounds right back. Now to be fair that week I was having my friendly monthly visitor, or as my hubs and I call it Shark Week. On Shark Week I usually crave all manner of carbs, sugar, and greasy fatty foods. So yeah I bought some donuts and I yeah I had 3 of them, so there! And I bought some Doritos Taco chips too. Ugh I was totally bad on Saturday, but I am pretty sure I didn't gain those 2 pounds back in 12 hours. Mostly sure, but hey what do I know!?
This past week I lost 2.8 pounds. so who knows what that means. Shark Week could have been excess water weight, or bloating or whatever. Is this TMI?  I'll stop now.
So Super Bowl Sunday. Oy! I saved up all my splurge points for the week and didn't really eat much on Sunday morning. So I had a good store of points. I must admit for the sake of full disclosure, I didn't keep track of my points during the super bowl. I did keep track today, and yes I went over my daily allowance. I think I am at 26 points a day. We have left over super bowl food, so that didn't help. Not that I binged on junk today, but I did have some of the soft pretzels I baked, and some of the homemade mini pizzas. The one thing that will probably kill me is the soda. I had two sodas during the super bowl, and finished the last two off today. So I definitely need to go run around the block or something. On the plus side I hardly ever drink soda. Which if you know me is a small miracle. It was at one time my go to drink of choice. But after having two kids, coffee and lots of it, is my beverage of choice. So I am going to have to be really good the rest of the week to make up for Sunday and Monday.
Some observations on this current journey of mine: I enjoy this system. I like that I can eat mostly what I want. I like that it helps me control portion sizes and I like the ease of keeping track of my points on my phone. So that has been nice.
What is difficult for me is I make most of the things I eat from scratch. So I am constantly having to get on the computer after a meal and write in a recipe, and try to guess how many servings there are.
Example: I make my own bread. But when I make my bread I make 8 loaves at a time. The problem with the recipe writer is that they want to know how many servings those 8 loaves of bread contain. WHAT!? How should I know? It depends on how thick you slice the bread! So my recipe is a total guess on that score.
Oh well. I really wish I could just add the recipes from my phone but they don't let you. Probably a software thing. Also you can't add a recipe into a recipe. So when I make little mini pizzas I make my own sour dough pizza crust. But I can't add that recipe to the mini pizza recipe. Kind of frustrating.
But these are minor issues. I am really enjoying the program because I am seeing progress, Not a whole lot but more than when I wasn't on it. One step forward two steps back. I think what I need to do, when I can find the time, is go through my tracking so far and see what it is that has been keeping me from major success. Is it going over my points or is it something I am eating that is a large portion of points. That sort of thing. Also I need to throw in some exercise. Definitely need to throw in some exercise.
My main food downfall are potato chips and chocolate. Luckily we don't buy potato chips often, but we always have chocolate chips on hand for all the baking we do. I have actually found however, that just 2 or 3 chocolate chips are enough. They are actually quite heavenly in small doses, and I find that I savor them more than when I am having a handful. Interesting.
My biggest problem is portion size. I grew up with the more is better philosophy as far as how much food should be on your plate. So actually measuring with measuring cups has been an interesting experience. Interesting in that I feel kind of ridiculous measuring my food out onto my plate with measuring cups, but even more importantly realizing, once I have eaten, that that is all I really need to feel satisfied.
So anyone else have any major revelations, success stories or just griping they want to get off there chest? Let us know in the comments! :)