Another Week One
Posted in Weigh-In on 01/26/2007 09:44 pm by MargaretJanuary 26, 2007
Thursday
Week Ones are usually good. I tend to weigh and measure more diligently than usual and be more precise in the written tracking of my food consumption. And because a rejoin or a recommitment usually follows a period of overconsumption, the first weight loss is easily shed water. Thus I was not surprised to see that I am down 1.6 pounds this week, a modest start, but a start.
I did find myself falling into a pattern I’d wanted to avoid this time. Last week I’d arrived at the Weight Watchers center at about noon because that’s when the impulse to do so seized me. I stayed for the noon meeting because, even though I really like the leader who does the Thursday and Friday evening meetings, I have not the heart right now for navigating the crosstown rush hour traffic to get to that usually very crowded meeting. The Friday noon meeting is small, and a friend from church was there, so I thought I’d try that again.
That means that I left the house at 9:30, without breakfast, weighed in, had an Egg McMuffin (6 points) and a small orange juice (2 points) at McDonald’s, arrived for my haircut at 10:30 back on my side of town, and then went back to WW for the meeting. That’s an inefficient use of time.
And with Weight Watchers’ new method for calculating how many points one should consume to keep losing weight, I found that my initial modest weight loss had pushed me down one more point. A point is worth about 50 calories, and I’m supposed to have only 24 points a day. That’s 1200 calories a day. “Flex points,” the “extra” points a member can use all at once or spread throughout the week, adds another 5 points (250 calories) a day, still under 1500 calories. I can certainly lose weight on that restrictive an intake, but I am hungry all the time that way, and tend to have a bite here and an extra taste there (BLTs — bites, licks, and tastes).
But I’ve started, and feel some measure of success. I start my week on Sunday, and as it happens, I have no more “Flex points” left for this week, and we’re going out for dinner tomorrow. I’ll just do the best I can, and start another Day 1 on Sunday.
02/06/2007 at 4:59 pm
Hi!! Like you, I have been a WW member. Like you I have never really had any great, long-lasting success with WW.
However, I have to tell you that I recently started the South Beach diet. I had gotten the book in early December. I had read and re-read the book before I actually started the diet. I thought it would be like the many times in the past where I have started off strong only to fizzle out halfway to my goal. Well, I have to say I am amazed at the results.
I started the diet officiallly on January 1. And, I carried that book with me for the first part of the diet which is called Phase One because I needed to keep looking up what was and what wasn’t acceptable to eat. I joined the South Beach diet online to make sure I did everything right. It just seemed so odd to me to be able to eat when I was hungry and not have to weigh and measure my food.
Who would have guessed that this little Italian girl would be able to go two weeks with no bread or pasta. But I have to say, I didn’t even miss it. And, I lost 8 pounds in that first two weeks. Each week since, I have lost two pounds, slowly adding back what are called “good carbs.” I even eat a couple of Dove’s Dark chocolate promises about twice a week. I have never gone a day on this diet without chocolate of some kind.
Liberation from points counting has been wonderful. I always used to eat fat free pudding. I horded points in order to have two of them a day.
Now, since one eats the sugar free variety of sweets which can lead to gastric upset, I am learning that I don’t need to eat quite as much to be satisfied. I can eat one sugar free pudding a day! Liberation!!
I will let you know how it goes. But, you might want to check it out.