So I find myself in “Diet Purgatory”, actually I am going to be there awhile. With the New Year coming along, got to me thinking what do I want out of the next New Year? Well my first and foremost would be I would like to start dating again. It has been almost 18 months since Michael passed away, and now that I have moved back, gotten settled, and gotten a few other things in my life on track, the dating thing came into mind. So that brought about the whole I am really not happy with my weight. I have always been heavy, but I have been in much better shape, and much lighter.
So for the past two weeks I have been following something between Nutrisystem, and Weight Watchers. I actually ordered the Nutrisystem monthly supply, but it took two weeks to arrive, so I joined the Weight Watcher program online. I can definately tell you there are large differences between the two programs. Large. The Nutrisystem food while isn’t horrible, at times, isn’t tasty either. I find the Nutrisystem concepts of breakfast not to be that satisfying, but their lunches, dinners, and snacks range from ok to decent.
Weight Watchers gives you the opportunity to eat regular food, or if you want to use one of their frozen dinners, or anyone else’s for that matter that tends to work out fairly well. My thoughts on this are to eat up my month’s supply of nutrisystem and not re-order at this point. For me, frozen dinners seem to be more healthy and cause me less gastric distress than shelf stable food.
My results so far, in about two weeks I have lost 6.3 pounds, which isn’t too bad. One thing is for certain, I am eating a lot more vegetables, and lettuce than I have in a long time. I also thankfully am not suffering from what I thought were pretty large pangs of hunger that I did for the first week or so. See me around lunch time, and unfortunately, I can’t balance out breakfast, and a morning snack enough to keep me from needing to eat lunch because I get a little light headed and feel like I am starving. One thing though, taking my lunch to work, is less expensive even if I am buying special meals. I work in an expensive side of town, so inexpensive lunch options are not to be had.
Additionally I have been taking the dog for walks in the evening, so there is more exercise going on there. My life is unforunately fairly sedentary, and it is hard for me to break out of this. I work during the day at my regular job, and my nights are spent working on the website, and getting my book together. So I do a lot of sitting.
We are so educated today that you think we would know how to diet properly, and we would know how not to over indulge, but it seems so difficult to do. It is difficult for me to do. Reading about food, writing about food, and not having run from too many meals means that I have struggled with my weight for quite some time now. So hopefully I can hang on a little while, and drop some of the excess weight, and enjoy cycling again!
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