WW meeting #2

I went to my WW meeting last night and had my first "official" weigh-in. It was good news (considering how tough I thought the week was going) - down 2.2 pounds!!!!! Yea, I'm below 200 again - 199.6 to be exact.
At the meeting we talked about portion control. Such a familiar topic. It was a huge struggle a year and half ago when I first started tracking food to eat the right portions. Things Chris and I did to make it easier - smaller plates! You will not believe how much it helps. Chris also bought me a scale, so I could weigh everything we ate. At the meeting they talked about cereal, which made me laugh because I remember how shocked I was when I first measured my cereal. A cereal bowl will actually hold 3 servings!! A serving size is usually around 200 calories, so I was eating 600 calories for breakfast and that was before my coffee creamer!! The nice thing about WW meetings is that they remind me of what I went through when I first started all those months ago. They made a good point that even if you've been tracking for awhile you should still measure because you'll find that you start to add more without realizing, so I measured my cereal this morning, and yep, I was off by almost a serving. I also measured my milk again, and yep, I was off there too.
We also talked about snacking (my biggest weakness). A really good idea that a member brought up was that she'll go into her cupboard and mark the boxes with the amount of points per serving - what a GREAT idea!! I'm going to do that too - especially since Chris is "doing" this with me (then he won't have to keep asking me how many points are in things).
I made a few WW recipes last week and we really liked them, but tonight I made the WORST one. It sounded so good, and boy did it ever smell good!! It was a soup - cheeseburger soup. The recipe said that it was 6 points a serving and that included an ounce of chips. Then I realized that an ounce of chips was included in the recipe so an actual serving was 3 chips - not 24! UGH. Who eats just 3 chips?! And with a "dipping" type soup? Chris was mad - he said we're trying to eat healthy not starve ourselves. So we each had a serving of chips - 4 points on top of the 6 point soup, and we had milk with our dinner which added another 2 points to the meal (just when you think you're getting control on this whole point thing...SIGH). The recipe as a whole was okay (Chris hated it). It tasted just like what I expect "diet" food to taste like (a lot like Progresso soups), so needless to say the recipe went into the trash, and we were both hungry, so we had veggies and hummus (all free foods). I'm pretty sure we'll be starving in another hour or so...bring on the 1 point popcorn!!
I think that is my biggest complaint with WW - figuring out points. When I was tracking calories it seemed so much easier. I'm thinking this is just part of the learning curve. I'm not ready to give up on it yet though. It will take awhile to adjust, but I'll figure it out, and as long as the scale keeps going down then I must be doing something right - RIGHT?!
Goals for the week:
Food goal - to not eat more then 5 extra points a day. (I know better then to say to eat only the allotted points in a day - couldn't even get close last week, so if I can get within 5 points, I'll be happy).
Exercise goal - to walk Vinson (my dog) at least 4 times.
Weight loss goal - 2 pounds