Lost some weight!

Right now, I am thrilled with my choice to join weight watchers. Like I've said before, I have come to the realization that there are two ways to lose weight, eliminating food groups or eating in moderation. Obviously there is a difference between eating the healthiest diet possible and eating to lose weight. I have found with myself that just trying to eat healthier was not eliminating the weight. On top of that, my weight has become my biggest health threat. I have no desire to eat an exclusively raw foods diet at this time. I am trying to take the healthy eating tools I have learned with raw foods and utilize them with eating my favorite foods in moderation. In the past, I have tried to do that on my own and failed. This time, I am trying Weight Watchers again but adding visits to my counselor to help with why I never stick to it.

After my first meeting, I was a bit more excited than I had anticipated. I really think that doing this in conjunction with counseling is going to be successful. In Weight Watchers now, they give you your daily points and then 35 extra points to use or not use during the week. Since Easter was this week, I decided to save all my extra points and eat what I wanted on Easter and not count it. I was surprised to see how many points the healthiest and raw meals were. This is fine for the people who eat completely raw, but seeing as how I was only eating partially raw, I was consuming more calories than I thought. On top of that, I thought that since my breakfast and lunch was raw, I had more leeway in what I choice for dinner. Not true. I found that if I wanted to have something like pizza for dinner, I had to plan for it all day. It actually worked out great for me. I had 3 slices of pizza one night for dinner and still stayed within my points for that day. Another day I had a full Subway sub (a 12" not the 6" I normally order because the chips I get were about the same number of points as getting the larger sandwich). I tried not to overdo it on Easter, but I didn't skimp on things either and I lost 3.6 pounds. All in all a very successful week. I also didn't exercise at all because I pulled a rib out and was in pain. I will try to update weekly on my progress.