Back on track

Mar 03, 2012

So its March and in February I decided it was time to try something new. I had been doing a modified atkins (badly) and that means I was eating an extremely high calorie diet.  I had been doing that for so long I didn't know how to eat any more. So since lots of my friends had been doing well at Weight Watchers.. I took the plunge and went.. hoping I could re educate my self about food.  And wow... I have lost nearly ten pounds..  I am eating fruits and vegetables.   I am eating much less fat.  My calories are lower... and the band has helped me with hunger...  My appetite which has been out of control for a while now has been appeased... Instead of snaking on high calorie atkins bars .. I am having an apple or a banana or an orange.
and the beautiful thing is... I don't feel any need to binge on an apple.   (like I felt with atkins bars)
I am eating a VARIETY of food -- instead of just cheese and meat and atkins bars.. wow.
This is probably not such a shock to everyone else but I had felt that fruit would somehow set off my glycemic index and insulin response and I would feel starved. It didn't.
So.. for now the Weight Watcher eating plan is working for me. I wish I wasn't an over eater. I wish food wasn't such a problem for me.. But it is, has been for 60 years.. I guess no matter what, band, no band I still have to watch what I eat and how much.
That is just the way it is.  But it sure feels good to be losing again.

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