 Hello and welcome back to my channel. My name is Jen and I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW Blue Plan. It's Friday, so you know what that means. It is weigh in day. I'm gonna talk to you guys all about my week. We'll set some goals for next week. We'll recap the WW workshop and of course I'll share this week's weigh in. If you watched last week's weigh in video, you know that I am 0.4 away from hitting 50 pounds lost and I am so incredibly excited. I did have a goal of hitting 50 pounds lost by the end of 2020. Now, some of that 50 pounds I lost in 2019. So I still have a bit to go to actually lose a total of 50 pounds just this year in 2020. But nonetheless, my goal was to reach 50 pounds lost total. So hopefully this is the week that that actually happened. So definitely stay tuned later in the video to get an update on my weigh in. But if you're new to my channel or you haven't yet subscribed, please take a moment and hit the subscribe button. 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I kind of reignited that motivation spark last week when I found out that I was so close to hitting 50 pounds loss. So overall this week, food-wise, I had a really good week and I'm happy to announce that I nailed it with Jazzercise. As of today, I went to Jazzercise four times. And guess what? I'm going today. So that's going to make five times just this week, which I'm so incredibly excited about. Don't get me wrong. I'm sore. My body's tired, but I'm excited that I was able to kill my exercise goal. I actually put a workout challenge or exercise challenge out on my Facebook group. I have a special group just for a holiday 90 day, last 90 days of 2020 group. And I gave them an exercise goal as well. So hopefully I motivated them to also hit their exercise goals. So I'm proud of myself for that. It's been a busy week. I actually closed on a house, had a couple of home inspections. And as of yesterday, we started our huge bathroom remodel. I'm talking huge, where we are gutting our bathroom. The only thing left literally is the toilet. Floors are gone, moldings gone, doors gone. All the fixtures are gone. So it's going to be a stressful next couple of weeks. We had to move everything into one of our other bathrooms in our house, which is much, much smaller. And I have a lot of stuff. So it's going to be a bit of a challenge, but I'm excited to share the progress of that with you guys. So overall, I had an excellent week. Food-wise, exercise-wise, just busy and a little stressful with the bathroom remodel. So before I jump into this week's way, and let's talk about the workshop topic. As I've mentioned in my last couple of videos, WW is doing a fan favorites series of workshop topics. So things that people have really enjoyed have asked to come back, whether they be years and years ago topics or recent topics, just some fan favorites. So this week's fan favorite topic is dining in or out. And I actually really like this topic because it kind of covers all the bases. It gives you options for dining in at home and dining out. In a nutshell, this week's topic is teaching you how to still eat what you love, but still see success in your healthy lifestyle journey. See success on the scale, meet your goals, but still be able to really enjoy the foods that you love. As you know, the holidays are right around the corner. We have Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then New Year's. So we don't want to deprive ourselves. We want to be able to enjoy ourselves on the holiday, but still see success on the scale. So I have five tips from you for WW on how to dine in or out with success. Tip number one, when you are dining out, do a little bit of research before you actually head out to the restaurant. Most restaurants will have their menu online and a lot of establishments even have their nutritional information online. You can take that nutritional information, plug it into your WW calculator and come up with your points. If you don't have the option to see the nutritional information, you can do a good educated guess based on what's in the dish that you're choosing. So it's really good to do a little bit of research and make sure that you don't get stick or shock when you get to the restaurant or when you get home and track what you ate at the restaurant. Tip number two is about dining in. Sometimes we miss just the ambience of dining out at a restaurant. Someone's serving us the nice dishes and the cloth napkins and the ambience of the mood lighting. Recreate that at home, pull out your finest china, set up your table like you would see at a restaurant, add your placemats, your nice dishes, your pretty glasses, your best of the best silverware, put the salt and pepper shakers out on the table, light a couple candles and make the ambience at home what you would get at a restaurant. That way you feel like that dinner or that meal is extra special even though you're at home. Tip number three works well for dining in or out and that is raise the glass. So if you are someone that enjoys a good adult beverage, make sure that you portion those out or have the knowledge in the bank of how many points that glass of wine is or that glass of beer or that vodka tonic, whatever it is that is your drink of choice, raise your glass but make sure that you keep it within proportion. Another good tip when it comes to consuming alcohol is to pretrack it. That way you don't overindulge when you get into the situation. Whether that's on Zoom or at your local family gathering, make sure that you pretrack what you're planning on having alcohol beverage wise. That way it's a little less likely that you'll have a few extra if you hadn't pre-tracked and pre-planned. Tip number four also works when dining in or dining out and that is start snacking. You heard me right. Have a snack before you go to indulge in a potentially disastrous meal or a point heavy meal. Snack on some zero point foods, fruits, vegetables, have a little bit of chicken breast, whatever it is to keep you satisfied until you reach the event and also ensure that you're not going to that event or having that meal absolutely rabidness. So make sure that you set yourself up for success and have a small zero point snack before you go indulge in that favorite meal. Tip number five, I really like this and this goes more if you're going out or if you're attending an event. Sometimes we're in the moment. Sometimes we're enjoying the company or enjoying the event that we're at and the last thing on our mind is actually to open up our WW app and track what we're eating. So a little pro tip, take a photo of what you're eating and track it later. Track it when you get home, track it the next day, whatever the case may be. Just snap a photo so that you remember what you ate. Sometimes we forget what we ate a meal ago more or less a day ago. So make sure that you just take a quick photo and you'll have it on hand when you do have time to go in and enter it into your tracker. So I really like this topic. I think it's absolutely relevant to everybody whether you're dining in at your home or dining out at a restaurant or an event. It's important to kind of have these tips in your back pocket to make the holiday season a little bit more effective when it comes to hitting your goals. So speaking of goals, I have a couple for this next week. Now we are moving into a kind of hectic time for me, not only with the bathroom remodel, but my birthday is November 18th, my husband's birthday is November 17th and our wedding anniversary is November 17th. And if you've been around on my channel for a while, you know that we go to Leavenworth, Washington every single year for our anniversaries and birthdays. This year is no different. We're actually heading there on the 19th through the 21st. So I have to plan a little bit more strategically for this next week. I'm going to make sure that my food is on its A game up until we leave. I'm going to enjoy myself on my trip. I'm not going to track my food. I will be mindful of what I'm eating, but I'm going to enjoy my birthday and anniversary celebration. Like I always say, one or two days of indulging isn't going to derail all of your progress. Once we return, right back on track. So that's kind of my game plan or my goals moving forward. I do have three days of Jazzercise planned for this next week. So I'll at least be able to get in quite a bit of activity before we head out on our little anniversary birthday celebration. So now let's talk about what you're all here for, I'm sure, and that is to know whether or not I hit 50 pounds loss. So did I do it? Did I hit my 50 pounds this week? Yes, I did. I lost 1.2 this week. So I surpassed my 50 pounds. I'm actually at a total loss of 50.8 pounds. I literally couldn't be happier. I squealed, squealed when I stepped on the scale because this is a big milestone for me. This is something that I wanted to hit last year and I really absolutely was determined to hit it in 2020 and I did it and I'm so proud of myself. So my next goal is to continue losing to try to hit 50 pounds loss just in the year of 2020. I still have a bit to go. Like I said, I have about 12 or 13 pounds to go. I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it by the end of 2020 because we're in November but it doesn't matter because I've lost 50.8 pounds which is so exciting and so phenomenal and I literally couldn't be happier. So I did it, my friends. Thank you to you guys for your support, your love, your motivation for sticking out through this crazy up and down weight loss journey with me. It seriously means so much to me and with that being said, I wanna know about you guys. I wanna know how your week was. I wanna know if you gained, if you lost. Was it what you expected and are you going to take advantage of these tips from WW on dining in and dining out? And again, thank you guys so much for your love and support seriously. It means so much to me. So again, if you're new to my channel or you haven't yet subscribed, please take a moment and hit the subscribe button and better yet, ring the bell next to it that way you're notified when new videos are uploaded. I have lots of great holiday content coming your way. Plus, I'm highly considering doing vlogmas. So if you wanna see vlogmas 2020, leave that down in the comments for me. Also leave down in the comments how your week went, how you're doing, what your goals are for the upcoming week. And don't forget to check out that description box down below for my nutrition coaching website, links and discount codes to all of my favorite things, as well as the link to head over and join us on Facebook. If you're looking for some support and motivation, my Facebook group is a fantastic place to be, not to mention I have a really fun challenge coming out for the first of the year. So definitely head over and join us on Facebook. Thank you guys again so much for watching. Happy Friday, have a great weekend and I'll see you in tomorrow's grocery haul. Bye.