Weight Watchers.
My wife is doing it, and I figured that I had better do it to... both because I could use to lose a few pounds, and because I don't want to undermine her efforts. I know how I would feel if I was eating a strict diet and she was eating chips and burgers. But there's a weird thing going on...
WW works on a points system. The points are worth about 50 calories a pop on average, but weighted by the fat-to-fiber ratio or some such. Because I'm a man and pretty heavy, I get a crapload of points compared to my wife. And shockingly, I can't seem to eat that much. It doesn't help that most fruits and vegetables are zero points, and a huge salad has barely any points even with dressing on it because of the fiber. So I'm not getting to the end of my points, and I don't really want to eat a third dinner every night, so I don't know what to do.
On the other hand, for the sake of efficiency and lack of temptation, we're eating NOTHING but frozen dinners, pre-packaged salad kits, and raw fruit. Can you say "no dishes, no cooking, no cleaning, no nothing"? It is actually sort of a vacation for me, come to think of it.
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I'm trying Weight Watchers, too - I signed up for three months and figure I'll reassess in March. Sadly, I don't have the same problem you do, though I DO find that I'm not exactly starving at the end of a day (and I love that I've got "bonus" points that I can use if I need to).
I've been on it for three weeks and have lost 4 pounds. I'm not wildly enthusiastic about the program, though, and I'm figuring that I can probably get the same effect for free with one of the zillion aps that are available for my phone.
Well... Chili, if points don't work for you maybe something else will?
Thanks for joining me on this quest to get our health back, baby :)
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