Every day I get a certain amount of points that I am supposed to eat. I remember that it was always so hard to stay under these points, when I previously joined Weight Watchers. Now... something odd is happening.
I am not eating enough.
I add in my points at the end of the day, look at the total and wonder how I could have eaten so little! It is a strange feeling indeed. It is not that I am completely forgetting to eat, because I do eat a pretty steady 3 meals a day. It is that my meals seem to be getting smaller.. or perhaps it is my appetite.
For instance, AH and I ordered breakfast yesterday as we were both up at 4am, and got Denny's. Poached eggs, french toast and bacon for me. A breakfast worth 21 points but... I couldn't eat it all. I couldn't hardly eat half. I finished the eggs, because I like poached eggs, but only made it through about half of the bacon and 1/3 of the french toast. I sat looking at the platter, wondering what was wrong that I couldn't finish it. I used to be able to polish that off no problem without much thought, but for some reason my stomach just couldn't stomach it. I left half the platter empty and sat wondering why.
I really haven't been eating much lately. I pick at my food and oftentimes, I just sometimes forget to eat. I don't know if it is that I am distracted, too busy to do much eating. I don't know if it is that I am not finding myself hungry as often as I used to. I don't know that my stomach isn't shrinking to much smaller proprotions. It just seems weird to me.
Another thing is that I'm finding the changes to the plan a bit.. well.. different. All the fruits I can eat means that I can eat a lot of fruit and not have to worry about points. I find that rather than grazing on high calorie snacks like potato chips or chocolate, I am picking a grape out of the fruit basket more often than not and eating that instead of heading into the kitchen to find something horrible for me. I'll peel an orange and leave it open on my desk and nibble on it as absentmindedly as I used to nibble on Chex mix, or something like that. I love fruit and want to keep lots of it around so that I eat it, but I don't have to count it for anything and I suddenly feel full.
I guess we'll find out if my adventures in undereating will get me any weight loss, but I don't think that it will. I think that this week may be a bad one at the scale, but we will see. I need to be healthier and I need to post on this blog more often .
Sorry again for the late post.. it was a late night, but a good one. Thank you for reading...
ToryLynn
Well, we just had this conversation :) As long as you are eating when you are hungry, stopping when you are full, you will do just fine. Just don't deprive yourself of the calories your body needs to function.
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Melinda says...The healthy guidelines are more important than getting all your points. As long as you get in all your h2o/veggies etc. and your body isn't telling you its missing something you probably won't be penalized for under eating.
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