159.4 ... 4.6 lbs down, woo hoo.

And I'm starting to see & feel a difference. Excellent.

The new WW plan is working out really well for me. It's not difficult at all for me to stay within my daily allowance, and the weekly allowance gives me the opportunity to splurge a bit, so I'm not feeling deprived. I don't do deprivation well.

On Saturday (while practically everyone else in the Bay Area was riding Levi's Gran Fondo), LeeBob and I took advantage of the glorious weather & drove down to Monterey & Big Sur.

Naturally, we stopped off at our usual feeding spots -- a sweet little cafe in Carmel, and the restaurant at the Ventana Inn in Big Sur, high atop the bluffs overlooking the ocean.

We splurged and I figured I would worry about the points later. But that said, we (Lee is doing this with me, like he has a choice, heh heh) made some reasonably well-informed choices. By reasonably well-informed I mean we opted for side salads instead of fries or potato salad, and I asked for my dressing on the side and had very little of it, and didn't touch the bread. Eh, small steps. That didn't prevent me from thoroughly enjoying a luscious crock of French onion soup along with my noble salad. And at the Ventana Inn, we were going to split a dessert, but we ended up each getting one. But you know, it was well worth it, and I took it easy on the points the rest of the day.

Tallying it all up (and hopefully way overestimating the amt of points), I didn't make that huge of a dent in my weekly points allowance. I generally stay under my daily allowance so I figured this one splurge wasn't going to mess it up too badly.

And I lost nearly 2 lbs this week, so that approach seems to have worked.