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Thursday Thirteen #24: Pounds to Go, But I Can Eat
I blogged earlier this week about the fact that I started Weight Watchers the last day of March. If you want the details, scroll down to my Monday weigh-in post.
And here simply are:
Thirteen Things I've Already Learned About
Weight Watchers
1)I can eat what the rest of the family is eating--I just have to measure out my portions.
2)Measuring my food doesn't have to be fiddly--I figured out how much various dishes hold, and occasionally I use a measuring cup.
3)I can't go back for seconds--what I've got is all I'm getting. So I'm eating much more slowly and savoring all the tastes of my food.
4) I'm eating more vegetables with dinner.
5)I feel satisfied when I finish a meal. I may want to eat more just for the sake of eating, but I can tell myself no because I'm full!
6)A lot of my own recipes are fine for me to eat, I just have to control the portions.
7)Analyzing my recipes with the Weight Watchers recipe builder works well, but you have to break the food into the NUMBER of portions, rather than the size, and that can be tricky!
8)The community recipes have already turned up several good new recipes that I'd eat even if I hadn't started Weight Watchers!
9)I wasn't drinking enough water. And now I am. But I can still have a Pepsi every once in a while and I do. Because I don't do diet soda.
10) I CAN eat a single M&M and walk away from the rest, and feel happy for having had a treat.
Now if I could just do what JR did last night--and eat a half M&M in 5 bites. That I CAN'T do!
11)I'm feeling fuller between meals and have less urges to snack at night.
12) You're supposed to weigh yourself just once a week, but I do it every few days. And sometimes when you do that, the scale goes UP instead of down.
13) But it DOES go down! And that's a very sweet thing.....
