Guesstimation

Today, nay, in fact, all this weekend, has been about guesstimation. 

"Will I be able to make it to church with the gas needle resting on E?  Hmm....perhaps."

"How many sippy cups of juice/milk/water can Lily drink before nap time and still not wet the bed?...I guess about 1/2."

"What is the approximate Weight Watcher's point value for this meal?  32?  24?  17?  Who knows."

It took me a long time to be okay with guessing how many WW points are in food.  I used to either run away from foods that I couldn't figure out the points for, or I'd completely ignore what I ate and stop tracking for the day.  Neither solution worked very well.  It was only a couple months ago when I realized that I was allowed, even encouraged, by Weight Watchers to give my best guess about foods that are difficult to count. 

For example, today...
Lunch at church is always tasty, yet difficult to count points.  I don't have measuring cups, so I have to eyeball everything.  Also, I sometimes have no ideas what the Greek and Serbian blue hairs are cooking.  Today was a tasty example of some sort of buttery, rice, spinach and lemon side dish that I have no idea how to count.  I had what I'm guessing was about a half cup portion, so I'm going to guess that was about 3-4 points.  Then there was BBQ'd pulled pork (courtesy of Yours Truly), fluffy gelatin salad, Lazarus bread twists, coffee cake, and glazed donuts.  I estimated about 18 points in all for this meal.  I know that's a lot, but it was brunch after all.

So, my guesstimation puts me at having 9 weekly points left, in addition to the 9 activity points that I earned yesterday at the gym. 

Boo-yah!  That's pretty good.  I guess.