Birthday and dieting
Jul. 27th, 2005 12:55 amIt was a nice birthday. Various people called and
emailed to wish me a happy birthday, which was nice. My sister
Katherine was in New York, and Mom took us to Aquagrill, which is a
very nice restaurant for dieting, and then she'd baked (upon request) a
Splenda Angel Food Cake that I could eat a reasonable quantity of on my
diet. She said she wished it had risen more, but it tasted good ...
especially with raspberries.
I've completed a week and a bit on Weight Watchers' Flex Plan. The scale said I lost ~3 pounds over the first week.
Assorted thoughts:
I've completed a week and a bit on Weight Watchers' Flex Plan. The scale said I lost ~3 pounds over the first week.
Assorted thoughts:
- The Flex Plan goes nicely with my general theory that I'll lose
weight if every day I eat no more than 1,200 calories while walking at
least 2 miles. The Atkins diet also fit well (it was surprisingly easy
to eat light on Atkins as long as I stuck to only eating when I was
hungry) but I had to count both carbs and calories. On Weight Watchers
Flex, if I count the points I am counting the calories (they're the primary contributor to points.)
- Having to guess at the point cost of food is frustrating.
Eyeballing the carbs for Atkins was easier, and while I had to guess at
the calories I didn't have to fret as much about it since I didn't have
a specific minimum calorie count to make. (Keeping to a specific diet
was easier still, but burns me out on dieting very quickly.)
- Logging points for all my food and physical activity fits well with the way I tend to obsess about any diet I'm currently on.
- I'll have to wait and see, but I suspect Weight Watchers Flex addresses both my dieting failure modes: learning technically-okay foods on non-calorie focused diets and eating too many of them, and too many successive days of <1,000 calories leading to exhaustion and burnout.
- I need a better scale. Buying one will make a nice project for the rest of the week.
- It's nice being able to eat fruit and (unbuttered) popcorn fairly freely on a diet. Not being able to eat popcorn on Atkins felt very strange -- not that I missed the popcorn particularly, but it feels like it should be a dieting staple. And I did miss the fruit ... though there are advantages to not being allowed fruit on a diet; it sometimes leaves me hungrier.
- Okay, scale on order. Or would be, if drugstore.com would let me. (The connection's dying. At least they can't bill me multiple times: the virtual credit card number I gave them is limited to a little over the order amount.) Did I mention I obsess about dieting when I'm taking it seriously?
- Just noticed the time. I should have been in bed half an hour ago, by now, per both side rules on my diet (not to short myself on sleep) and everyday common sense.