Too easy?
After a few days on WW, I'm finding this almost too easy. It's not hard to keep what I eat under 28 points per day. Yesterday evening, I saw that I had more points to eat, so I considered my options. I looked over what I had eaten for the day and really did not like what I saw. It didn't look like a diet. I was within my points, but I really wasn't happy with my choices. Not enough whole grains or fresh foods. So, I took the time to make a salad instead of eating a normal "snack."
I see now that with WW, a person can eat nothing but junk and not have a healthy diet, but still be "on plan." I may be cutting calories, but I'm not consuming enough of what I consider nutritious foods. I guess I just need to ease into it. First I'll work at lowering my daily consumption, then I'll slide back into eating a whole food diet as I'm able.
I definitely have a different attitude toward this than I ever have before. I don't want to spend a whole lot of time analyzing my "data" and constantly tweaking the plan. I just want to eat to live. Now that Chandler is in my life, I don't have the mental or physical energy to really throw myself into some kind of "project." I just want to plan what I eat better and make better choices. I want simplicity.
That said, I've decided to NOT use some kind of computer-based tracker this time. They're supposed to make things easier, but I find myself on them too much. I think the paper WW tracker will do just fine. Quick and easy. If I'm not sure of the points of something, I'll just estimate, and that will be OK.
I talked to my husband last night about making a semi-permanent arrangement with child care to help me with the diet. I need time on the weekend to prep for the week, so he's going to be in charge of the baby from when she wakes up from her afternoon nap until dinner time, giving me about 4 hours of time to get things done. He's also going to try to get her out of the house at this time so she doesn't keep running into the kitchen and grabbing onto my leg or sticking her hand on the burners. I really hope this works, but I'm afraid things will come up to throw this off. We'll see.
