Hey everyone! As I'm sure you've all figured out by now (since I haven't made a blog post in nearly two months) I got very frustrated with my lack of progress on my program and fell off it with a vengeance just before Thanksgiving. I thought it would be fairly self-defeating to try to start a new diet during the holidays, so I set a start date of January 3, the first Monday after New Year's, and here we are!
Based on the research I've done and comments from you guys, I've decided that the main reason I was so unsuccessful with losing weight on Atkins last fall is that my body was in starvation mode. I simply couldn't manage to consume enough calories and still stay within my carb limits. I was averaging 1100-1200 calories per day, and although different calculators came up with different numbers, the general consensus seemed to be that I should be eating 1900-2000 calories per day. That's a big deficit.
Anyway, what I've decided to do is go with a different program altogether, and the winner is Weight Watchers Online. The online version of their program is cheaper than the weekly meetings, and getting me out of the house to a meeting would be next to impossible anyway. I've been on Weight Watchers twice before, both times with the traditional weekly meeting format, both times very briefly and quite reluctantly on my part. Needless to say, I didn't have much success. They've been around for a very long time, though, and many, many people have lost a lot of weight with their programs, so they must be doing something right!
The WW program is based on point values assigned to everything you eat. They calculate the number of points you need to consume per day based on age, gender, height, and current weight, and the number changes as you lose weight. For example, when I was exploring the site before I weighed in this morning, I entered a guess for my weight as 400 lbs, anticipating that I would have gained back all I had lost. The system then calculated a daily total of 59 points for me. When I discovered this morning that I've only gained back 7 lbs (YAY!) and changed my starting weight to 383, it reduced my daily points to 57. They encourage fruit and vegetable consumption, which is something that I was having a hard time with on Atkins. On WW, most fruits and vegetables have a zero points value, so I can eat as many of them as I want. Well...within reason, of course! But I won't have to restrict myself to half a cup of vegetables with dinner and no fruit at all, which will be very nice.
So as of this morning, we're off and running again! It's gonna work this time. I'm determined.
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