Day Three: I've Already Eaten My 15 Allotted Almonds for the Day
I haven't written my words yet today, which goes against my strategy for winning this year: write first thing in the morning, don't stop until you hit at least 1667 words.
Now, I promise you that I'm not going to talk about my diet every damn day. But I am going to talk about it one more time to let you know that I am officially switching to Weight Watchers. It worked well for me before, and I think it will this time too. South Beach is just far to restrictive for someone with my limited tastes. I like the point system. I like trying to save up as many of the Weekly Points as possible to have a treat. I love that I can drink a Dr Pepper if I want to, as long as I count the points.
There are things about SB that I will miss. As much as you can miss something you've only been on three days. Ideas I will miss. You can eat all you want of the foods you are allowed to eat. You don't have to measure or worry about portions. The only limit is nuts. You can only have 15 almonds a day. That's not a lot of almonds, which is unfortunate because it's on the rather small list of "Foods I will actually eat." The thought of continuing on that diet just depressed me.
It was stupid to start NaNo and a diet at the same time, but at least on WW, I know I will have foods I can eat. Although a lot fewer daily points than I had when I started the last time. Maybe because I weigh 44 lbs less than I did the first time.
Comments
Comments closed on older entries, whenever I get around to it, to avoid spam.It was very hard for me to make it through the first week or two of South Beach but it got exponentially easier. However, as someone who hates it when others try to tell her what diet she should be on, I will just say GOOD LUCK WITH WW!
Posted by: Hilly | 3 novembre 2008 18h43
Arg, diets. To have managed to lose so much weight on a diet makes me INCREDIBLY impressed with you (not that I wasn't before) because it's only the strongest willed people who can stick to them.
I'm plowing through Nanowrimo as well - I'm writing, would you believe, a 'choose your own adventure' book - except it's EROTIC.
But it's going really well. I'm plowing through my word count.
I met you through Nanowrimo - I remember looking up people who were writing Adventure stories, so your pic and read your bio and thought "Cor, SHE'S a bit of all right. I'd like to be friends with her..."
So even though that's a wildly inappropriate thing to say, if you ever need a mid-diet self esteem pick-up from somebody other than your charming, lovely, patient Will, there it is.
Posted by: Roland Hulme | 4 novembre 2008 9h36