week twelve

I've dropped below the 22 points per day plan to 20 points per day. That's the lowest you can go. I add points of course with exercise. I didn't realize though that there is a limit to the amount of points you can add through exercise. Last night the Weight Watchers leader said that limit was 4 points per day. I'll have to look that up in my Getting Started book. I don't recall reading that before. I have been adding 2 points per day just by walking at a moderate pace on the treadmill. My back is getting better and I will resume running this week (I race again on the 14th) and add another 1 or 2 points giving me a total of 23-24 points per day. That's sufficient for me. Even 20 is sufficient if I didn't exercise but I know that's not good.

I was really hoping to have lost 2 lbs. at weigh in last night but fell short by .2 lb. (lost 1.8). That would have earned me my 4th 5 lbs. I'll do that next week. It was that time of the month so maybe that had something to do with it.