Analyze THIS!

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Guest post by NotAMeanGirl of Mean Girls Need Not Apply

I’m doing the Weight Watchers Core plan. I was TERRIFIED to start this diet. You can eat as much as you want on it as long as you stick to the items on the Core list and eat until you’re satisfied. Now… I weigh 448 lbs…. If I knew when my hunger was SATISFIED… do you REALLY think I’d weigh that much. I was very, VERY skeptical of this program.

However, it has actually been working quite well for me. I don’t feel deprived of anything though. I have to admit, I am missing Bread and Biscuits a little bit. I haven’t felt hungry unless, of course, I’m a dork and don’t eat regularly which has been known to happen.

The Core Program HAS made me much more aware of my battle with Head Hunger vs. Physical Hunger. I’ve noticed that if I allow myself to get too hungry my MIND doesn’t realize when my BODY has had enough food.

Let me give you an example. Typically I get up at 7 or 7:30 am. Sometime around 8 or 9am we hit the lake for an hour or more of exercise. I tread water, I do jumping jacks, I do arm exercises, I do squats and I walk, all in the water. We arrive back at the house between 9 and 10am and drip dry on the back porch for 30 minutes to an hour. I take my medication around 11am and eat my first meal around 11:30am… ish. Mom serves the portions for me and I eat what she serves. She asks if I’m “satisfied” and often, more often than not really, I don’t know how to answer the question. PHYSICALLY, yes… I’m satisfied. Mentally I’m still hungry. Mentally I’m like, MORE FOOD!!!! MUST HAVE MORE FOOD!!!! WTF? I mean… REALLY! If I actually THINK about the questions and gauge how I feel after I’ve eaten I know I’ve had plenty.

Unfortunately, my USUAL modus operandi is to just move on to my next task after eating until I’m miserably full and without reflecting on whether or not my hunger has truly been sated. My life is so full of…things. Work, TV shows, Movies, computer games, fighting with my son about cleaning his room or going to bed, “hanging out”, busy, Busy, BUSY. I never take the time to listen to myself or take care of myself. Everyone and everything is more important. Here at the lake, thanks to my very supportive and wonderful parents, I have nothing BUT time. I’m being given an opportunity to take care of myself and make me and my needs my number one priority. It is allowing me to actually ACT on some of the issues that I recognize are a part of my psyche.

Facing your demons head on… its not for the faint of heart. Just like beginning The Core Program, its frightening me and making me uncomfortable. The last week of exercising and dieting and self-reflection has made me realize how important it is to do it. My first week of this program I lost 15.2 lbs…. I can’t thank them enough. This could be what saves my life.

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11 responses to “Analyze THIS!”

  1. mauniejames Avatar

    first can I move in with your parents too?second I love your humor its awesome…third you are the exact opposite

    of my son..wife..two teenage girls all getting their periods at the same time..one dog female and moody and the male dogs nuts..my son won’t get rid of the dogs because he feels on the food chain…he’s next to go and the two dogs serve as a buffer of sorts…love reading you…

  2. fidget Avatar

    Keep pushing it. It sounds like you are doing great!!

  3. NotAMeanGirl Avatar

    MaunieJames– HEH! I think it may get a lil crowded if you did. I’ll have to take a picture of the place and put it on my site soon. They have a huge house on the lake but its an open floorplan. Privacy… what’s THAT?

    Fidget– Thanks for the encouragement. I actually wrote that post a few weeks ago. I’m now up to a 23 lb loss. (Tomorrow is weigh in so I REALLY hope its more like … 25 or 30 if I’m REALLY, REALLY lucky).

    Thanks to both of you for checking it out!

  4. Domestic Diva Avatar

    good post! You’ve motivated me to start working out again.

  5. molly Avatar
    molly

    I haven’t used WW’s Core plan because of the qualm that you initially raised (not having a good hunger/satiety internal counter). BUt I do mainly eat core-type foods, as they keep me full longer and tend to be quite healthy (compared to a lot of the low-fat, but utter-crap-for-you diet food out there).

    But, both my husband and I have done their Flex plan (or points, or whatever they’re calling it these days) and both of us lost about 150 pounds on it (I started at 262 and am at 120 and he started at 300 and is around 150). So, I’m a big WW fan/evangelist! Good luck!

  6. thordora Avatar

    I’ve had the same arguments about WW-I know what to eat. If I knew when to stop, I would. I’m constantly hungry. Drives me nuts. Course, I have some other issues involved there as well.

  7. Kelly Avatar

    That is that hardest part of dieting and then not gaining the weight back…the brain! I think we get so busy with our lives that we forget to read our bodies. Who has time for that? And then when we finally try to get back there, we have to go through such a field mine of garbage to do so. It’s very overwhelming for me!

    Anyway, good luck to you!

  8. NotAMeanGirl Avatar

    Domestic Diva– Thanks :) I hope you find a program that works for you! Its a great feeling with the progress is obvious. :)

    Molly– I hear you! On Flex I eat all sorts of crappy processed foods that are nothing but empty points. I DO think that their points ratio is messed up though. 44 points is what I get on points. Even at 34 points I gained for the week. No thanks! Heh.

    Thordora– Heh! Girl we ALL have other issues that our weight is wrapped up in! Do NOT feel alone in that. I really DO recommend WW Core program though. If you really pay attention to your body and LISTEN to what it tells you it works like a freakin’ charm! If I can make it work ANYONE can. Let me know if you DO decide to give it a try. I’d love to know how you progress.

  9. NotAMeanGirl Avatar

    Kelly– You said it! When you add depression and anxiety issues to the mix, OH MAH GAH! Talk about your mine fields. Thanks for the kind words.

    Plain Jane– Thanks so much for allowing me to guest blog here! You’re a kind and wise woman! (YOU ROCK! heh)

  10. MsRebecca Avatar

    Glad to trip onto your blog, I have been struggling mmyself.. It’s not cool going from a size 2 to a size 12! I have been walking 5 miles a day and eating really well, I drink nothing but water and I think I’m doing ok.. I’ve lost 10 lbs already and I’m looking to lose at least 30 more= good luck to us both!

  11. NotAMeanGirl Avatar

    MsRebecca– Thanks. I hope you reach your goals as well. Anytime you need a diet buddy hollah! lol

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