How has flour and dairy free been feeling?

Well, when I started this experiment about three weeks ago, the plan was to go a full four weeks without dairy or flour products. At first I felt hungry all the tine and I didn't like it much. After two weeks I was kind of getting into the groove, but today I slipped up in a major but calculated way. The kids got to not only pick what was for dinner, but also got to prepare it. I had an alternative hot and ready for me to eat, however, home made fettucini with home made alfredo, goat cheese and rosemary souffle, and roasted carrots, it was too much. Squash soup was not going to compete with such a feast. I dove into all of it, and enjoyed every moment with reckless abandonment, and now I am paying for it. I feel so full that I feel like my tummy is stretching out, I have a sick sinking feeling from my shoulders down to my belly button, I wish I felt like throwing up, because I would gladly over feeling this way. And for those of you that don't know me personally, I take great measures to keep from thawing up. I have a whole routine of sitting or laying perfectly still, ensuring no one touches me, and that no one makes too much noise around me to avoid such an event, but today I would take it. I never thought I would say it, but pasta and cream sauce makes me feel ill and I should probably avoid it as much as possible. And all this time I thought it was my favorite food, a perfect union born in heaven just for me. All tjhis time it as been making me feel bloated, and I didn't eve pn realize it.

Here is the worst part. My husband knew and he told me all the time, and I just wouldn't believe it. He would say things like "Well, I better eat this today and enjoy it because one day you are going to tell me to quit making it because you don't like the way it makes you feel." Well, sorry honey, I don't like the way it makes me feel and the kids are going to have to beg before you can make it again.

Being Reassured by Skinny People

I had a skinny person over for dinner last night, and she reassured me that my hubby and I were not too skinny. Flabby bellies are a sign of being over weight. Losing a bit more weight on my part is not a bad idea, and my hubby is a picture of health. Though he may look small in his current surrounding, if he goes to practically any other country in the world, he would look large.

Not Counting and Losing Weight

After abandoning counting I have lost 3 more pounds. Making healthy choices is working. Looking at my goal board, it looks like I wanted to lose 20. I am down 11 with 9 to go. If I lose 5 pounds, Weight Watchers will weigh me in for free. I will be in my weight range and healthy according to the BMI chart and the doctors, and the charts Weight Watchers uses. I will be rethinking my ultimate goal after I lose those 5 pounds because I don't think my belly will be gone.

More and Less

Healthy choices don't have to be constant. I plan to still eat cream sauce, with shrimp instead of steak. I just need to remember to eat more salad than I do the pasta. I am also going to eliminate foods that I don't like that are high calorie. I will be in the minority on this one, but steak, burgers, and hot dogs are not going to see my plate. If there is a food that I like, but for some reason is not prepared the way I like it, I will pass. Maybe eat a little be to be polite, but why have a full portion, or extra of something that isn't very good and high calorie. I might as well eat veggies or salad then something than get fat over something yucky. So now if I can just stay motivated and take small portions of high calorie food, pass on high calorie foods prepared subpar, and eat plenty of low calorie foods.

LIFE STYLE CHANGE.

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When I listen to the radio, I hear lies about calories and cooking and it makes me want to scream. One of the light beer commercials claims that you will burn all the calories that you just ingested by throwing the can into the recycling bin and giving everyone a high five on your way to get another beer. You have got to be kidding. Don't believe it. It is a lie. Another commercial on the radio claimed that adding eggs to a cake mix is making the cake from scratch. Huh? Really? I know that they are supposed to be funny jokes, but I have kids in the car that don't get the humor and think that it is true. I already ditched the TV, I guess it is time to lose the lying radio too.

Floating Foods

Feeding the ducks becomes very difficult when processed foods are eliminated. You search your house for something that will float. There isn't any bread, there isn't a bagel, no English muffin, no Cheerios, no Rice Crispys... You think to yourself: Rice Crispys float maybe rice will float, but you forget to check first, and you take it to feed the ducks, and discover that it also sinks. How do all the processed food makers get everything they make to float? Everything I make seems to sink. I can and do make bread, but it is so much work that I wouldn't want to give it to ducks anyway. I guess the ducks will have to wait for other people to bring their processed foods to the lake. I haven't got any.

No More Counting

I hate counting. I am over it. I don't want to count anymore. It is discouraging, and if you miss something (if you don't write it down) then you don't lose any weight. This blog is no longer named correctly because I am not going to do it anymore. I would say that the pointsplus experiment was not a complete waste of time, and it wasn't a waste of energy because I am 8 lbs lighter than I was when I started. However, I am not really counting anymore. I can't remember the last time I managed to write everything down for a whole week. But most of all:

SKINNY PEOPLE DON'T WRITE IT ALL DOWN!!!

At Parties:
They have one or two drinks.
They only take one plate of food.
They take the lower calorie options.
They do not take the high calorie things.
If there are only high calorie options, they don't eat.
They cut a dessert in half and eat that.
They don't come back for more.

At Restaurants:
If they have an appetizer it is a salad with a clear dressing.
They have a glass of wine not a bottle, OR a bottle of beer not a pitcher.
They split an en tray.
They split a dessert.

At home:
They have healthier options available.
Snacks are veggies not chips.
Drinks are water not soda, and coffee lacks cream and sugar.
I have never seen a skinny person drink a diet soda. If they have a soda, it is the real thing, but it is only one.

This blog will now be about me trying to make healthier choices like the ones listed above. I will still be weighing in periodically, but I will no longer be counting. I will be avoiding sugar, dairy, fatty meats, alcohol, and packaged foods.