Day Two



John, Lily and Fleck: 1/2/2010



Much more typical day today, foodwise.  Late breakfast/lunch: oatmeal with apples, nuts, dried fruit and cinnamon.  I left out the brown sugar that I usually add and it was--surprise!--less sweet.  But still fine, so I'll do without the sugar from now on.  J and I went to the Shahenshah Diner for dinner, since it's his last night in town.  This place has the best Indian food I've ever had, and I've had it all over Atlanta--for real, if you EVER find yourself in middle GA at dinnertime, Shahenshah on Watson in Warner Robins is the best.  Anyway, channa masala for dinner. 

I also restarted my weight watchers account.  I have done WW online, off and on, for...umm...about 7 years.  I rarely talk about it, but I also live/eat two hours away from most of my friends, so there's not a lot of reason to discuss it.  Also, my friends are male, and we don't really talk about, you know, our asses.  I lost about 40 pounds on WW when I first started.  It works, and it's sane.  Plus, the online version is like playing a video game, with the weight tracker and points tracker and recipe generator.  It's like farmville, only your IRL ass gets smaller.

So, even when I've gotten away from WW in the past few years, I still knew the formula for calculating points, so I could read labels and know whether I was really screwing up or not.  WW has recently changed their entire point system, getting away from the old Calories + Fat - Fiber and moving to a more nutritionally-based system.  The new is something like Fat + Carbs - Protein - Fiber.  While I normally resist change as much as everyone else (WHAT'S UP WITH THE #&@!  NEW FACEBOOK PROFILE?!), I think I really dig the new system.  Almost all fruits and veggies are 0 points!  I used to fudge on points by adding just a few strawberries to my oatmeal, plus just a few blueberries, plus just a few banana slices...none of those things added up to a point, so I called it 0 even though all of them together would have counted.  I don't have to fudge anymore!  I put half an apple in my oatmeal and finished the apple later for a snack, and didn't pretend I forgot about the points. 

The only problem is that the new formula is riddled with decimals, so I will have to figure out how to read labels again.  I don't want to carry a WW points calculator into Kroger all the time.

I feel really good tonight, even with the huge dinner.  Cutting dairy products has not only gotten dairy out of my diet, but the starchy, gluteny things that I ate with the dairy, too.  I'm not bloated at all; my nose is happy.

Dig that picture of John with the kitties?  They love to sit on one lap together.  Usually it's my lap, since his always has a computer on it, but they both parked on John tonight before he had a chance to pick up his laptop.