At my Weight Watchers meeting this week, there were several people who had really good weight loss (2.6 to 7 pounds) and guess what their common denominator was?

They all went to a party and used half to all their weekly point allowance on yummy stuff like wedding cake, wine, brats, ribs, and beer (I’m practically swooning and I think there’s  little drool running down my face).

It made the rest of us say “hot damn – time to party and pig out this week!”

The people that went out, enjoyed themselves, and dug deep into their weekly points were (scouts honor here) the biggest “losers” of the week.

But, and this is probably key, they stayed completely on track the rest of the week with healthy eating and stayed within their daily allotted points (we just knew there had to be a catch, right?).

Also, they didn’t go off the deep end and eat 5,000 calories worth of food in that one day either.  They all said they balanced out their high calorie choices with fruits and veggies (insert big “sigh”).

It’s making me think there’s something to the theory of having a “pig out day” or “day off” during the week helping to improve weight loss.

My weight loss has slowed to a crawl the last couple of months and it seems like the harder I work at staying within my points that the slower I lose.

So I’m thinking that Friday night my husband and I are going to call some friends to go out to eat; and instead of having broiled fish with steamed vegetables I’m going to have what I really want – a traditional Friday fish fry (very popular here in Wisconsin) which means some deep fried cod or haddock, fries, coleslaw and rye bread.  And I’m going to wash it down with a beer or two (yes I have enough weekly points to do it).

Then the only trick for me will be to behave the rest of the weekend and keep my head out of the ice cream bucket!

We’ll see how it goes.  I’ll let you know next week after my weigh in how I did.