Last week I started drinking a TON of water each day. Not only for diet reasons but to up my milk production because I'm breast feeding. I have a feeling I was seeing success on the scale because of the increase in my water intake and not the Points Plus system.
I've been following the plan for a week and a half and as of today I have lost ZERO pounds. ZERO! Nada- nothing!!
I will start out by saying I am frustrated and angry today. This will probably be the tone of this blog. I'm sorry, but it's how I feel. I am angry because I have been following the plan to a T. I have been tracking all my food intake. I even had a "cheat" night last Friday, but it wasn't really cheating because I was still within my weekly points. I tend to save my weekly points for one night and then eat something I'm craving like pizza or Mexican food. Sometimes I go over, but I didn't on Friday. I have been drinking more water, but not working out.
I know I can lose weight with diet alone. I've done it before so I don't really think that I haven't lost because I haven't found time to exercise. There are some days I am weak and don't exercise and there are days when the baby is up a lot and I can't work it in my day. I can only do so much. I really just wanted to get the diet down pat, get into a groove with that and then I would really make working out a priority. I haven't been able to find success with this diet yet.
I am not giving up. I am going to pull out my books from the "old" plan and start following that. If that doesn't work, I will find what does work. I will not give up. I can't give up. I do not want diabetes. It is unfortunate that the new plan is not working for me. I might be doing something wrong. I don't know. What I do know is losing weight is hard enough by itself. Why WW felt like they had to make it even more difficult is beyond me. I still feel that they wanted money and revamped the system so everyone would buy the new materials. I hope I'm wrong.
Today is just not a good day. I feel like I've deprived myself for nothing and that makes me mad. I feel like I did my part and WW let me down. Tomorrow might be a different story. Tomorrow I might be down 3 lbs and gushing about how much I love WW. Today I'm just pissed off and ready to try something else.
Hang in there on the new program! I struggled with it the first four weeks, and even my leader said she hated it for the first four weeks. I think it just takes a while for your body to adjust to the way you are eating, and some people have gone too far with the fruit (I may have been guilty of that!).
ReplyDeleteBut for people who struggle with a sweet tooth the 'free' fruit can be a huge helper. Think about it, if you have a piece of fruit instead of a dessert each time you are craving something sweet isn't that a good thing?
I find that on the new plan I am reaching for fruit instead of a cookie most of the time, even though I can "afford" the cookie; or often I will have a piece of fruit with the cookie which I think is good because it's adding complexity to what's in your stomach at the time.