ENOUGH ALREADY!

[baronessekat]

This sick thing has got to stop. I mean it. *looks to the sky, the earth and the air around* HELLO.... anyone out there listening. I get it. Please make it stop now!

Luckily I'm seeing my GP tomorrow morning. It was originally supposed to be for my annual check up and I wanted to see how my blood levels and stuff are doing now that I've lost the 25+ pounds. But since I've been sick now for the better part of almost two months part of me is wondering if it's the "lifestyle adjustment" that's causing me to not get any better even after having taken antibiotics once.

I'm not sure how though. I'm actually taking a vitamin daily (which I never did before). I'm still eating just about everything I used to, only in smaller portions. About the only thing I have practically totally eliminated is actual sugar and replaced as much of it as I can with splenda.

*shrug* We'll see what Dr. Hatton says tomorrow.

I tried a version of the Flex plan of WW that had been highly recommended on the ww blog. I'm halfway through it and don't like it. It's called the Wendie plan. And rather than have a minimum of 22 points a day with 35 flex points I can use for anything over that throughout the week, it breaks up the flex points and assigns them days. The theory is that your metabolism gets used to having certain amount of calories and the like each day at certain times and this shakes things up.

Now, for those that have known me for years know that there are times when I just can't eat. Not hungry in the least. Especially when I'm sick. but I decided to try this plan to see if that would help me get back onto plan. Nope. I hate it. The days I have over 22 points (like yesterday which actually gave me 37 points) I felt horrible. Stuffed and ill to my stomach. not going to be doing this one again. I can see the logic behind it and why it could work for a lot of people. but it's not me.

I need to look at the books again as I'm seriously thinking of maybe trying a week of the Core plan. We'll see.

Today is the March of Dimes Walk America. Boo is going to walk with me. 3 miles downtown on a nice day. I plan on taking it real easy due to us both being sick.

Oh well, off to find breakfast, more cold meds and start getting motivated for the walk.

Comments

[dragondare.livejournal.com]

Okay, but if you have 37 flex points to use throughout the week in addition to your regular 22, wouldn't your body at least be seeing moderate variation throughout the week?

I guess my other question is, if you've hit a plateau, is a day here and there of a greater number of calories really going to spark loss again? I was under the impression that you actually had to pump it up for a week or two, etc.? *shrugs* Just curious.

[baronessekat.livejournal.com]

Question 1: normally yes. But some people end up gettng into a routine. I myself ended up usually eating the same amount of points every day in the exact same way every day. As in I'd have a 1 or 2 point breakfast around 8ish, a 4-6 point lunch around noon and dinner/evening would be the remainder so my body was getting used to the cycle and expecting the roughly same amount of points/calories every day in roughly the same time period. I was thinking that this plan would get me to shake up my eating habits and see what happened.

What I learned was that I didn't feel good about myself when I tried the variation. I actually ended up eating more than I usually do and it was making me feel gross.

And for me it wasn't so much hitting a plateau as growing bored. When I get bored I get lazy and I was finding I wasn't watching the points as carefully as I should have. I was doing a lot of guestimating.

I really like the flex plan but the numbers are what get me. I'm numerically dyslexic and in a lot of ways numbers scare the hell out of me. I would go back and check my math with my points at times and find I had done a rather major error with it.

that's why I'm thinking of looking at the core plan for a week or two. With that there is a list of foods that you can eat "as much as you want TO YOUR SATISFACTION". And while a lot of it is fruits and vegetables (which is something I have had to work on getting more of in my diet as I'm much happier being a carnivore) but there are also a lot of fish, and a few meats and grains that are available too. The trick with that is learning when I am satisfied as opposed to when I am stuffed.

This is a lifestyle adjustment and will be with me, in theory, for the rest of my life, and I'm not wanting to get bored and lazy and put back on all the weight I'm losing.

Even to the end of getting rid of the "fall back clothes" as the woman at work who has been doing this with me has gone from a size 24 to an 16/18 and tomorrow is getting all of my 16/18 clothes (save a couple dresses that I want to take to the tailor and have altered to fit me because I really liked them).