Re: Can't seem to do this!

January 5, 2011

While I always thought, and still do, that if you are going to diet, a program

like WW is probably among the most sane that you can follow, the problem for me

was that while nothing was forbidden, the mere fact of having that set number of

points was hard for me. For one thing, IMHO, most of those point levels are too

low, so even when you eat them all, you're often still so hungry that you're

setting yourself up for a binge. But even if you don't think they're too low,

if I had one meal where I had something really caloric and used up most of my

points for the day, the fact that I knew I didn't have enough points left for my

next meal made me panicky about either being hungry for the rest of the day or

about " blowing it " by eating over my points level that day and those feelings

made me want to eat more.

With IE, I don't have to be panicky because I can't blow it and because I always

know I can eat again the next time I'm hungry. Also, the whole weigh-in thing

was always hard for me. I know some people see it as accountability, but I

hated having to face that person at the scale and if I wasn't having a " good "

week, I'd start starving myself so I could have a good weigh-in, then end up

binging afterward when I knew I had a whole week to make up for the binge.

Ultimately, WW just did too much of a number on my psyche and I even after eight

attempts over a dozen years, I never lost more than 30 pounds with any try.

Works for some, but just wasn't for me.

Josie

>

> everything said in these emails makes sense in theory for me but how to apply

them is another story. Weight Watchers has no forbidden foods you can eat

whatever you choose but you must count it. and write it down. It really worked

for me at first. I got down to goal weight and stopped going to meetings. I

think it is the support of the WW meetings that helped me keep in line. But I

can't seem to do their points program I don't want to count points for

everything I eat. They used to have a core program where you could eat from a

list of whole foods until you were satisfied and when you were hungry and use

points when you wanted extras like sweets. That worked for me. They say it's

not a diet it's a lifestyle. Sorry didn't mean to make this a commercial for

WW. Yesterday I did not binge and had one serving of chocolate chips and sat and

enjoyed them. So one day at a time I will continue. Thanks for your ESH and

ncouragement

>

Recommended Posts