Last night, George and I went to dinner with my mom last night. We had to go pick her up at this restaurant where there were something like thirty loud, drunk real estate agents at this leadership conference. (So loud, drunk, outgoing and outspoken real estate agents.) It was a very uncomfortable (but interesting) thirty minutes. (And thirty minutes of “this is my daughter and George” and “are they the ones getting married?”)

But then it was over and we went to this restaurant that had nothing WW friendly. Oh, I’m sure I could’ve asked them to grill me a piece of fish, but it probably would’ve been blackened. I don’t like blackened fish. So I had a bowl of iceburg lettuce with a bit of ranch dressing and a cup of oyster artichoke soup. Yummy but very creamy and pointy. And then I split (okay, ate most of) some bread pudding with my mom.

But then this morning, I weighed the same as I did last week! You know, as in before I gained the .8 lbs. So that is good and makes me feel like I may have a loss next week. I really hope so.

Next weekend, I’m going to pick blueberries with some girlfriends and I want to make blueberry jam. And then I was thinking, I have to put a clever name on the label, don’t I? Since my name does, after all, rhyme with “jam”. Since my domain does, after all, incorporate the words “pam” and “jam”.

So do I call it “pyjammy’s jam” or “pam’s jam” or “pyjammy jam” or what? Or something else altogether? Does it really matter? How much jam do I think I’m going to make? It’s not like I’m going to be marketing it, after all. I may be giving jars to a few people, but do I really need to stress about this? I’ve never even made jam! What if it’s disgusting? Does anyone know the easiest way to make blueberry jam?

Ooh, tomorrow is Ren’s baby shower. Can’t wait to see her!

Pooh. Gained .8 this week. That is no good. But next week, it’ll all come off and more. I am grimly determined.

Don’t know if it had anything to do with dinner last night. Went out with work people, but I was pretty good, or as good as I could be. Had one drink (sangria, yummmm) and no appetizer (I was the only one who didn’t get one) and then I ate just half of the beef and chicken fajitas I ordered. That’s two tortillas, some meat, and some vegetables. No sour cream, no cheese, no guacamole, no rice, no beans. Dang, I’m good! But then there was the matter of dessert. Hell, yeah, I got dessert after being so good! But I shared it. White chocolate brownie a la mode.

Still had 10 flex points left over for the week, so I think I did decently. Maybe it was just because it was, after all, the night before weigh in. And it was, after all, more food than I’d normally eat for dinner. So who cares, right? Next week will be great! And I’m broke until next Friday, so I can’t afford to buy more food, anyway. So that’s, well, the bright side to being constantly penniless. On the other hand, my mom is taking us out to dinner tomorrow night, so I’ll have to be careful. Must think of yummy place to eat with healthy food. Don’t think Mom will want Applebee’s. It’s hard to pick a place like Applebee’s when there are so many good restaurants in New Orleans.

Hmmph. Think I may end up gaining 2 lbs this week. I’ve been so good! (Yes, I know what you’re thinking. Pizza, Pam? Popcorn and two boxes of candy at the movies? But I stayed within points!) But alas, what can you do? My body must be retaining water. Yes, water. That’s it. Uh huh. Ah well. Next week will make up for it. (I mean, it has to be a false gain. It has to be!)

Went running this morning alone. Haven’t done that in a while. Polly forgot about us running, I guess. I didn’t go for as long as I would have with her, but close to it. I didn’t want to go on the levee alone, plus it’s really hot up there if the sun has already come up. So I went up and down streets, around blocks, back and forth. The neighborhood really is very small for running.

Yay, Friday!

Going to buy paint tonight. I think I’m going to go with “Approaching Night.” Descriptive, eh? Well, I suppose in a “the night sky at the end of dusk” way, it is. It’s a purply-bluey-gray-y color. Pretty. Decided I’m not going to do the red accents yet, I’m going to wait until the room is painted, then figure it out.

Have been eating a lot today. But am PMSy, so really am doing quite well, considering. Still have 7 or something points left plus 5 activity points for dinner and beer. And haven’t used any flex points this week yet. Am saving them in the hopes that George will take me for pizza. Pizza! Yum! Surely I’ll earn a ton of APs tomorrow painting, eh?

Nothing exciting to report. (Ha, like that’s stopped me from posting before!) Had our weekly weigh-in at work. Thank god I don’t count that as my real weigh in. Gained .4 lbs according to work scale. But since there are variables (how much I drank and ate before the meeting; what clothes I’m wearing) at work and not so much at home, I’m not worried about it. But we did have strawberries and low-fat cool whip (could there be a more artificial product?) as a snack. Yum!

Now I really do think I’m going to paint the bedroom this weekend. Don’t really have much else to do. Why not? Won’t be too expensive. Hopefully won’t be too much work. I just need to commit to doing it, and then do it. So maybe tomorrow after work I’ll go and buy the paint so I will be less likely to weasel out of it.

Oh, wait, there was something exciting today – the front desk receptionist said she could tell I’d lost weight. Nice!

The bad news: no loss this week.

The good news: no gain this week!

Maintenance is boring. But good, I guess. This wasn’t my best week, so I’m not surprised. I came in right on points, including my flex points, but I have a feeling there were some days I didn’t record my points absolutely correctly. Like at the crawfish boil. It’s hard to say how many points boiled crawfish is when the boiler tells you he put in a pound of butter in each batch. But does it soak into the crawfish meat? I don’t know. He said it was to make the shells softer. Hmmm. And then I did sit on my butt most of the weekend. I suppose I could have exercised more. But it was so hot and humid. Blech.

Last night I made a lovely 3 point dinner. Broiled tilapia with soy sauce (2 pts) and 1 pt worth of cous cous and some sliced tomato (not enough to count as a point). Yum! I had lots of points left over at the end of the night. Should have probably just not used them, even though I’m supposed to. Was partly good – grapes and partly bad – chocolate. Mmmm. Chocolate.

Trying to think of some things to do this weekend. I was going to paint my bedroom, but I don’t think I can afford the paint just now. If I don’t make some kinds of plans, I’m just going to end up doing nothing. Maybe I should go see my mom. But gas is so friggin’ expensive, it’d be cheaper to paint my room. Blah.

Found another good blog, Scale Tipping. Gotta love those WW blogs.