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Date Posted: 12:20:33 01/20/03 Mon
In reply to:
SapphireMist
's message, "I've lost 2 pounds!!!" on 07:33:35 01/19/03 Sun
WOOOO, WOOOO, WOOOO, WOOOOO! (Pumping arm motion).
This is sooo great. You know what they say about every journey beginning with a single step. I was sitting on my bed this morning looking over my food journal and my daughter came in to ask what I was doing. I showed her my journal and then showed her the one in the filled-up notebook that was from last summer. It hit me, looking at the first few pages, how tentative I had felt when I started back 7 months ago. the thing I remember feeling most afraid of was that I would not stick with it. i had started and stopped so many times over the previous 7 years. It has been 8 years since I was slim. There were lots of times over the past 7 months that I felt hopeless...frustrated....stuck....discouraged, etc. But I thinnk i was afraid to give up and afraid to stop trying. Some days I cheated. Some days i binged. But I kept on keeping on, somehow...maybe I am just afraid not to.
Today i am having a tad of a hard time. I havn't done anything awful...but I haven't been as rigid as I sometimes feel I have to be. And I sure as heck don't feel like sticking with things and i don't feel like excercising. The kids are home from school today and it is terribly cold out, & I have raging PMS. But I am writing down everything I am eating. And I will excercize here shortly, come what may. You have helped me today. I know how hard it is to get started. The keeping on is not as hard as the getting started...honest. Maybe it is because you know have something to protect....those 2 lbs. And no matter how anyone has to go that is 2 lbs closer to your goal. That is 2 lbs you also didn't GAIN. My husband reminds me of that when the scale doesn't move or it does something illogical like goes up when I have been "good". He reminds me of water retention and he reminds me that it is all part of the journey.
You soooooo can do this. You ARE doing it!
I am not sure of all the specifics of the new points plan with weight watchers but I am very familiar with the basics of their older versions. Did you know that the original plan (decades ago) called for 4 oz of lean protein at lunch and 6 oz. at supper?!! It allowed adult women 2 bread/starch exchanges a day and 2 fruit exchanges. There were 3 kinds of vegetables....a few like potatoes and corn were considered starch like breads, and some you could have only 4 oz a day, like carrots, green beans, peas, orange squashes, tomatoes and onions. And then there was a huge list of veggies that were unlimited such as lettuce, leafy greans, radishes, broccolli, celery, cukes, red peppers, asparagus, and zuchinni. You could only have beef three times a week (pork and lamb included) and you had to have fish 4 X a week. (water packed tuna counted). eggs...only 5 a week. You were allowed a tsp. of fat at every meal. One of your fruits had to be a citrus fruit. Back then there were no low-cal breads, no decent fat free or low cal foods, and only a few weight watchers products. To translate into todays available products you would have to equate calories on things. For example: a WW ice cream sandwich for 130 calories could be worth 1 bread and one fruit. (since a fruit averages 45 to 65 calories and a bread about 70).
With what I have been reading in recent articles and publications, the current views on dieting have changed again. For awhile carbs were supposed to be good for you and nix the fat. Now they are finding fat is important and the TYPE of carb is what matters....namely sugar and white flour carbs are the bad guys...and more lean protein cuts cravings and stopps fat storage. Interestingly, the "old" weight watchers type of plan is back "in" again. While their current points system may keep everyone feeling like they can eat anything they want, if one was to think purely about health, the old plan may actually be a better way to go! very interesting.
You are right about the water being really important. I was sooo addicted to diet mountain dew before I started this regime. I thought I had to have it. It took a few eeks of not drinking it and just drinking water and herbal tea but then I didn't miss it and I haven't wanted it since. Try substituting green tea. Celestial seasonings makes nice honey lemon ginsing one i like. You can even make up a pitcher of green iced tea the night before to drink the next day. Green tea does have some caffeine though so don't drink it in the evenings. traditional medicinals PMS tea helps me not to suffer from bloat so much and I drink it every night especially 1/2 the month. If you don't buy the soda, and substitute other things, that will help. I like to buy the lemon juice in the little plastic lemon-shaped containers and squeeze it in my water. I also buy snapple diet raspberry iced tea by the bottle and whenever I leave the house I take one with me in the car....always....plus I keep a bottle of spring water in the car. This has helped me avoid the problem of trying to get something like that at a convenience store when we're out and them not having what I need and ending up drinking diet soda with all that sodium.
Yea for you!!!!!! Woah-whoooo!
Dreemy
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