Weigh In 19: Slippery Slopes

A story has been on network news and social media about a guy who pulled a prank while proposing to his girlfriend at the Grand Canyon. I must be extremely old fashion as I don't see a prank and proposing belonging together except in the dictionary. He pretended to slip and to lose the ring box. I don't think actually doing this at the canyon was funny at all, but the story about slippery slopes is only meant to be a lead in to today's post.

I am down another .7 today for a total of 34.7 pounds. This is good, but my past week could have become a slippery slope. I made cookies to take to my knitting group. I left some home for hubby and grandson. Hubby didn't care for the maple cookies and grandson only had one during a short visit.

I didn't polish them off in one or two days as I could have before, but I also didn't attempt to figure out the point value. If I had one at someone else's house, I wouldn't have felt guilty. One cookie or almost any other item with an unknown point value isn't going to hurt...unless this becomes a habit.

For someone else, a slippery slope in their home might be salty snacks. I could go the rest of my life without being tempted by chips, pretzels or nuts. Popcorn, especially the smell of movie theater popcorn, does nothing for me. Actually, the smell of movie popcorn is very unpleasant to me. I know full well that ice cream can be dangerous for me. If I am serving myself regular ice cream, I measure it. I try to always have some form of WW or similar low point frozen treat in the freezer.

So what happened with the cookies? I didn't Love the maple cookies but the idea of cookies is still so darned appealing. I had one or two a day until they were gone. Good thing I only left 10-12 of them home. My slippery slope isn't just the cookies per day that I didn't count, it was the attitude toward tracking that slid into danger.

I use e-Tools and have access to my WW tracker on my PC, my iPhone and iPad.  It isn't a chore to go the site and enter something unless I want to make it one. I made dinner one day last week that just wasn't turning out well. It was a crock pot recipe that even wasn't done anywhere near the expected time. I was hungry at 6:00 and ate something else for dinner but didn't track it. And I ate another cookie. The whole next day I didn't use the tracker. I tend to eat one of a few combinations for breakfast or lunch. I told myself I would enter the meals (which is how I have some saved for even faster entry) later and carried the points around in my head. Except for those dang cookies that I ate. Again.

Apparently cookies are my gateway drug to bigger things!

Seriously, I am not beating myself up for this, but am aware that this could be a problem. I can honestly say I wasn't hungry when I ate any of the cookies. I ate them because ... well .... because they ARE (were) COOKIES.

Back to tracking and staying away from slopes this week. 

Onward and downward!