Well, it's been too, too long. Today I started the "diet" portion of a new weight management program offered by my health insurance. The program started on February 1st, meeting on Tuesday nights. It's in cooperation with the USC School of Occupational Therapy's Lifestyle Redesign program.
I'm excited about what the program offers, but right now, I'm not feeling the food plan. The leader brought in copies of a book called "The 5-Day Miracle Diet" for us to read. Basically, it surmises that overeating is due, in large part, to all of us having "bad" blood sugar - levels that only serve to have us crave foods when we're not really hungry, especially the "bad" foods.
This morning I woke up at 5:45am and made myself a single-egg portion of the Southwestern Egg-beaters, and toasted a slice of whole grain bread. That was breakfast. Two hours from eating that I was required to eat a "hard-chew" fruit or vegetable, I chose a Grapple (an apple that's engineered to smell like a grape!). Two hours later I was required to eat another hard-chew snack, this time I chose baby carrots.
I finished lunch abou twenty minutes ago. It consisted of a slice of toasted whole grain bread, a 3oz. can of tuna (packed in water), a couple more baby carrots, and some spinach salad. I was not pleased with everything.
First off, I do not like vegetables. This has always been a problem for me. I like cooked broccoli only when I can dip it in an accompanying sauce of some sort. I like pickles (they're a vegetable, right?). I do not like carrots, I do not like cucumbers, I am not a salad-girl . This poses a significant problem for me under this new plan, where a significant amount of the food I eat needs to be metabolically-clean (i.e., not the frozen, heat-up variety).
I went to the grocery store last night and spent $130 on groceries. About a week's worth. I don't know about most people, but I cannot afford to spend that much on groceries. I have to admit, I felt pretty proud of my bounty when it came to checkout time. It was a very healthy-looking cart, but ultimately, what does that matter if I can't/won't actually eat half of it?
I'm a bit perplexed about this. I was very happy with the Weight Watchers nutritional program - the Points system really worked for me, and if I would have exercised more (or at all, really), I think I could have garnered even more success.
Honestly, I don't see my lifestyle changing so significantly that I eat the way I've eaten this morning for the rest of my life. Maybe that's the problem. I know I need to give it a little bit more time, and I will give it these first five days, but right now I'm feeling very disappointed.
Posted by weezgrrl at February 10, 2005 12:51 PM