45 Back on points and feeling quite satisfied because I've eating a whole bunch of things that I couldn't have eaten on the core plan. Made garlic naan bread--which is just fabulous--and feel satisfied all around. Still----there's a big difference between what I ate and what I would have eaten had I not been on WW. Maybe it will be helpful to me to write these differences down from time to time--to see for myself that all those "little" extras are quite a big deal!
Breakfast--I ate:
1 pancake, diet syrup 1 glass milk, cut fruit
Normally I would have added one more pancake (4 points)
Snack--I ate: none
I was cooking all morning---would have sampled nuts (3 points?)
Lunch--I ate:
1 naan bread with a little butter, zero point soup
I would have had the naan with a lot of cheese, a yogurt, maybe some bacon and possibly another naan--assuming I would have only eaten 1 naan (12 points)
Church--I ate: nothing
I would have had two chocolates (4 points)
Snack--I ate a banana
I would have eaten the banana plus a lot of pre dinner nibbling of meat and cheese (8 points)
Dinner--I ate:
a naan, 1/2 cup black beans, a serving sweet pulled pork, 1/4 c cheese, lettuce, pico de gallo, cilantro dressing, cauliflower.
This was quite filling, but I know I would have added at least 1/2 cup rice, and much more cheese (say, 5 points more at least)
Dessert--I ate:
Jello.
I would have eaten--something rich and chocolaty--brownies, or those oatmeal peanut butter bars. A very large serving--at least 12 points of something.
So---add this up I would have probably eaten about 48 more points than I did!!! Holy Smoke!!! And I would not have considered that I had overeaten with this amount either!! The really scary thing is that this estimate is on the low side. No wonder ww feels skimpy even when it isn't. I really do like to eat a LOT.
Losing weight in spite of myself.
I began this blog in February 2011 as a way to help me not quit trying to lose weight, and to learn a few things. It's been an interesting and powerful experience. It certainly confirms what I've long suspected--that although I am a genuinely happy cheery person in the main, I am NOT a happy cheery dieter. I DETEST losing weight. I resent being overweight in the first place and I am a virtuoso in the art of self-sabotage. And YET--I'm doing it! I'm fighting and kicking and EATING all the way down, but the weight is finally going down. The plan I was following in February was a half-baked one largely based on wishful thinking. I gained a little weight and decided to get real. I knew I couldn't just join weightwatchers or count calories or do any one plan and expect to be successful. I decided if I was going to bother to make the effort to lose weight I was going to throw everything I could think of at the problem. And so I do. My real "Day One" for this blog is April 1, 2011. I joined weight watchers, I joined caloriecount.com (awesome website), I read the blog losingweighteveryday.blogspot.com religiously, I keep this blog faithfully, I joined the health programs sponsored by my insurance, I use the principles from overeater's anonymous, I use my church's 12 step program as well, I subscribe--and use--Healthy Cooking Magazine.
The result of all this? Painfully slow progress (About 20 lbs in 10 months). But it IS progress and like the little engine that could I keep on trying in my rebellious way. I have no intention of quitting. This is by far the longest sustained weight loss effort I've ever made in my life. Successful I think, because for the first in my life I've done this MY way--which I've discovered, involves a lot of pizza and restaraunt food. I'm convinced this is the only way to lose weight. For me it must be MY way. For you it MUST be YOUR way. Not weight watcher's way, not your doctor's way, but YOUR way. Any plan or idea I use is only a tool.
The latest plan to lose weight my way began on Oct 29, 2013. It really is my own crazy plan. As you'll see if you read that post. I've implemented the best ideas of all sorts of eating plans and thrown out the scale. A couple of months in and I'm definitely healthier. I'm actually enjoying myself. I won't weigh until April 1, 2014, so I'll see then if this works the way I hope it will.
There is no magic weight loss bullet. But there IS a great deal of magic in the discovery of what I can happily live with (very different from what weight watchers tells me I can happily live with) and still have the body and health I want.
Good luck to all of us on this journey. It's quite a trip!
The result of all this? Painfully slow progress (About 20 lbs in 10 months). But it IS progress and like the little engine that could I keep on trying in my rebellious way. I have no intention of quitting. This is by far the longest sustained weight loss effort I've ever made in my life. Successful I think, because for the first in my life I've done this MY way--which I've discovered, involves a lot of pizza and restaraunt food. I'm convinced this is the only way to lose weight. For me it must be MY way. For you it MUST be YOUR way. Not weight watcher's way, not your doctor's way, but YOUR way. Any plan or idea I use is only a tool.
The latest plan to lose weight my way began on Oct 29, 2013. It really is my own crazy plan. As you'll see if you read that post. I've implemented the best ideas of all sorts of eating plans and thrown out the scale. A couple of months in and I'm definitely healthier. I'm actually enjoying myself. I won't weigh until April 1, 2014, so I'll see then if this works the way I hope it will.
There is no magic weight loss bullet. But there IS a great deal of magic in the discovery of what I can happily live with (very different from what weight watchers tells me I can happily live with) and still have the body and health I want.
Good luck to all of us on this journey. It's quite a trip!
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