Lowered Points

Yesterday was my first day that I ate with lowered points. My points lowered because I changed the way I answered some of the questions on their online quiz that tells you how many points to eat. I took away the 5 extra points for nursing. Apparently there's some conflicting research out there as to whether or not women really need to eat extra calories for nursing. Some women do feel hungrier and should eat to satisfy that hunger, while others are content without adding in extra calories. The breastmilk will still be great either way. So I've decided to take out those extra points and see what happens. While I definitely wouldn't want my points to be too low and risk slowing my metabolism, I don't want too many points as that will slow my weight loss unnecessarily. So I decided to take those points out and see how it goes. Not to mention, Boo is nursing - but he's also a toddler with a wide variety in his diet. So I don't think he's taking in all that much milk. So the nursing points just don't seem necessary to me right now. I also adjusted my activity level on the quiz. I had it at a higher level. It will probably go higher as it gets warmer and I get out more with the kids and do more walks. But I admit that with winter I've done a lot more sitting, even with two toddlers around all day. So I changed the activity level to reflect that. So I lost 9 points. This means a little less room for my splurges - beer, wine, ice cream, whatever. So I have to be a bit more mindful if I'd like to have that little treat at the end of my day!

Anyways, I feel that I did okay yesterday. I did dip into some weekly points, but hey, that's okay. Overall I feel okay about it. I did feel a bit hungrier. So we'll see how it goes and if my body adjusts to this lower point level.