374.2

Down 5.2 for the week, down 8 bounds overall.  This is after being on the plan three weeks.  Also, this includes Thanksgiving.  So I am very happy.  After the first week on the program I lost 2.6 pounds.  But the first week is supposed to be easy, you are supposed to lose on the first week.  So, I was not overjoyed after week one.  I was reserving my optimism.  Well, here it is, I am optimistic.

I can drink a gallon of coke a day.

Not bragging, just putting it out there.  I could, if left to my own devices, drink a gallon of coca-cola a day.  Everyday.  Without effort.  I can do the same with milk and sweet tea.  I really like them all.  Cokes are my favorite.  Damn carbs.

I miss carbohydrates.

I miss carbs.  I miss cheese too, but doing without cheese is not hard.  I want to each chips.  Tortilla chips are my fav.  I really like them with cheese, you know, nachos.  But with salsa is just fine.  I could eat a ton of them.  I like bread too.  And spaghetti.  Damn I miss spaghetti. 

I'm sorry, did you say then have some?  See, apparently you are missing the point.  I am fat because I eat too much food.  I don't want some spaghetti.  I want LOTS of spaghetti.  I am sure that at some point I will get to the point of having SOME.  But I ain't there now.

Vegetables. Dammitt.

The plan I am on has all fruit and most vegetables as "free" foods.  I have been doing a very good job at night that when I am hungry outside of normal meal times, to eat vegetables.  They are good if you cook them correctly. 

Argh! Blogging is hard

Ok, it is not hard, finding time to do it is hard.  I need to post more.  Paperwork is my weakness.  One of the things that I need to do for my weight loss is to be vigilant about recording what I eat.  I do not do that and it kills me.  Argh.  I need to make a goal, a weekly goal to record what I eat. 

378.6

Down 2.6.  I am happy, a little.  The first week is supposed to be easy, you are supposed to lose weight the first week.  I was hopeful for more, but given that I had two days at mom and dad's house, land of whole milk and honey roasted peanuts, and less than healthy options while there, I will be content with 2.6.  I am holding out any real joy until next week.  If I have a loss next week, then I think I will let myself be happy, really happy about it.

My mom's house.

I went to mom and dad's house this weekend.  Since you might not know, my mom's house is an affront to Weight Watcher's Points Plus.  Whole milk.  Salt.  Processed foods.  Fat.  Carbonated cola nut beverages.  Carbohydrates.  Nary a vegetable in sight.  Sigh.

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Four times per week.  It's science.  Just sayin'.

Day three

What I ate today (roughly in order):
apple (0)
banana(0)
24 ounces of coffee with non-dairly creamer and 4 table spoons of sugar (4)
apple (0)
banana (0)
6 ounces of chicken breast (6)
Small halloween package size of m&ms (2)
4 peppermint candies (?? I am going with 2)
6 ounces of chicken breast (6)
zuchinni (0)
tomatoes (0)
mushrooms (0)
bell pepper (0)
1 ounce of hummus (1)
20 ounces of sweet tea (?? 4 that would be 4 table spoons of sugar, so it's a guess)
That makes a total 25.  I am going out with my wife tonight.  So I will update this later.  I still think I am missing something but that is what I know I ate today.  I was hungry at a couple of times today, and had I the correct type of snack food I would have been all over it.  But it seemed like it was more me wanting to eat than me being hungry.  Also I was really full after dinner.  Veggies are free so I had a bunch of them.  We will see.  Four days to weigh in.  We will see.

UPDATE: after the post I went out with my wife.  I had 9 chicken wings (12), 2 ounces of corn chips (?), and 3 ounces of guacamole (?).  So, clearly more than the 25 points. 

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Day two

Ok, here is what I ate:

• Apple (0)
• Banana(0)
• 24 ounces of coffee (0)
• 4 tablespoons of sugar(4)
• Banana (0)
• two chicken thighs with skin (8)
• two pieces of chocolate candy
• hamburger (no bun or condiments) (6)
• eggplant (0)
• squash(0)
• zuchinni(0)
• mushrooms(0)
• 3 ounces of hummus (3)
• sweet tea (8) this is a guess from the sugar, I am guessing high.
• 2 poached eggs (5)

Total of 34 points.  It seems like I missed something in there, but still I am less than the 71 points for the day.

Day one

I started weight watchers today.  My wife has been on this same program for 2 months and lost 21 pounds.  I get 71 points because I am fat.  There is a proprietary formula that takes into consideration fiber, nutrition, fat, etc. to give all foods points.  Fruits and most vegetables are zero point foods.  It goes up from there.  She gets 41 points (well, it's 40 now) each day to spend on food.  I cook dinner so I have been cooking her dinner for two months now.  I see what she eats, I season it, I taste it, I am aware of how much food there is in her dinner.  The program seems manageable.  Unlike other diets that have you eat completely unnaturally while you lose weight and then transition to "real" food, this program essentially teaches you a new way to eat.  You are on the "real" food from day one.  I need to make a log for what I eat every day.  I am contemplating taking a picture with my phone so that I can record the food later but have the immediate record available to me.

I don't know the point values yet, I know I will learn them over time.  I need to "score" today and I think my weight watcher's book is in the van.  I will download the app for my phone but I can not do that until I sign up for the monthly plan.  Right now I am on the weekly plan.  I will be on the monthly plan in two weeks.

Here is what I ate today:

• apple (0)
• 24 ounces of coffee with non-dairy creamer (0)
• one rotisserie chicken breast (6)
• 12 ounces of sweet tea (3)
• apple (0)
• two of those small hershey's chocolate bars (3)
• one roasted chicken thigh (5)
• green beans (1)
• two artisan tortillas (4)
• 2 ounces of hummus (4)
• salsa (0)
• 2 ounces of sweet mashed potatoes (1)
• 2 poached eggs (2)
• one slice of white bread toast (2)

For a total of 31 points. 

382.2

I am fat.  This is my first post on my first blog.  The purpose of this blog is to be my journal (oh how I hate that word) for my weight loss.  I am a happy person.  A happy fat person.  I love and cherish my wife, adore my children, like my job and coworkers.  My blood pressure is great.  My cholesterol is great.  My doctor tells me that my weight has a greater impact on the health of my knees than anything else.  I lack a deep burning hate for being fat.  Sure, there are things I don't like about it (sounds like another post) but I do not think about it daily, or even weekly.  At least not consciously.  My wife is on her *mumblemumble*-th diet.  It is working for her.  I know enough that for any weight loss program to work, the motivation must be internal.  Doing it for someone else is an invitation for failure.  So, why do I want to lose weight?  Why now?  What is going to be my internal motivation?  I like food.  What will motivate me to give up food?  Most of the stuff that skinny people talk about doing that is easier when you are thin does not motivate me.  I don't feel like I am missing out on life because I am fat.  I get laid.  A lot.  Really hot sex too.  Of all the things that skinny people talk about, they talk about the the sex, the thin sex, like there is something to it.  So, here goes, on the proposition that sex will get even better when I weigh, say, 100 pounds less.  There is my motivation.  It is internal.  It might even be selfish.  I don't care.  I like it.  Welcome to thinsex.