Erinyes74 Thank you for the encouragement, the past 3 days have been bad. I feel it too mentally and physically. whats that saying garbage in garbage out. Yep I feel like garbage.

re-reading ww stuff. SFT. Kinda starting today (Have a birthday dinner to go to tonight, No time to start then I would be pissed off for not enjoying myself or guilty for enjoying my self. So just getting mentally prepared to try it for the rest of the month. The pf list really is all one needs and no counting.

Yea need to pick up a couple things but nothing drastic.

Well yesterdays outing wasn't to bad and looks like I have no up coming plans to eat out in the near future. So back on the wagon today with SFT.

basically its eating all natural foods and lean meat. Get off the processed crap. I do have the 49 weekly points for those. If I truly can not avoid them

I would love to get off any counting this and that and just stay as natural as I can and see where it takes me. So for the rest of this mouth will stay with this and see what happens.

Well I stayed on plan yesterday but, I stuffed not good. Kinda like the kid in a candy store. Its kinda weird how the thought of unlimited can mess with the mind.
Also try go un-processed It opened my eyes as to what I really have in the house to eat. I ended up using 11 wp's. I reset on Thursday and it is a short week for this but, that wont due for the full week coming up.
I am debating on a few things that where changed food wise from core to pf(sft) there are a couple foods taken off the core list that I don't see what the big deal was. So I am looking at both list of foods and deciding what will work for me or since there is so little change I will just combine the too list and carry on that way. Plus there is a ton of core recipes out there and people where successful on it.

Ok after much debating of which way to go I am going to combine the core food list and the new Swt list. To me its not a big deal. I am also staying with the original 35 weekly points as I have the original slide point counter. I just cant see spending the money out on new stuff, and the new books have so many corrections that it would be a waste of money.

Going to the store and picking a few more whole foods to start cooking like mom use to make lol when I was a kid. Meat vegetables and yes desert. Wow new concept from WW. It is just a concept we all have seemed to forgotten.

Well eat smaller amounts and see if I get full after 20 mins, if not will eat a little more. Trying to get the system back to normal.

Well yesterdays foods were

oatmeal w/raisins, ff milk 1
popcorn
Banana sf-ff pudding smoothie
cereal bar 2
string cheese 1
hamburger patty, baked potato, corn
sour cream 1, steak-sauce
apple
2 cereal bars 4
total points used 9 and around 1700 calories

Now did good but had the darn munchies, The cereal bars are 100 calories each so that alone would have brought my calories down to a more acceptable count.

Today's plan is to make me up a weekly sheet. like have my points for the week top or bottom, that I can cross out as used. 7 areas to log food, a small place to log any Ap's. hope to start using my treadmill Thursday. Thinking of other stuff to add to the sheet, maybe the 9 Healthy Guidelines boxes in each days area.

Also started looking up core recipes and putting them in a folder. Need to also make a generic shopping list to carry in my purse that I can glance at. The brain at my age can be forgetful lol.

When I tried this SFT last year it was confusing and the online membership was just as confusing, still is, I checked it out with there free week. If you are a point counter then its great.
But since they no longer have the rules it makes it so much easier eat everything off the List no limits or points. So That is my goal to eat only off the list and it is doable. Of course you can still overeat and gain weight. That is another goal of mine portion control.
Also I am following the old list with the new added stuff and using my old slide and only doing 35 weekly. So it is a tweaked version that I can live with.

I am thinking that some of the South-beach recipes may work for this, like the black bean brownies, will start looking over there. I did south beach seems like a Lc version of what I'm doing, Cant hurt to check it out.

I do know I need to get the protein up some. Ok off to work on my sheet so I have it ready by Thur my new week.

OK I am not trying to stay in a certain calorie range. I am putting the calories in to see what I end up with at the end of the day eating the SFT way and using points. and eating when hungry. So this is not only testing me but to see if WW has it right.

Breakfast
2 lite wheat toast 70cal
2 fried eggs 140cal
1 cup puffed wheat 60cal
1/2 cup ff milk 40cal

snack
oatmeal bar ??? guess 129 cal

lunch
tv dinner 5 points 250 cal
apple 70cal

Planed dinner
baked skinless chicken(DM) 55 cal an oz. 3oz 165cal
mashed potatoes w/sour cream 145cal
broccoli 30cal
1 slice lite bread 35 cal

planed snack
ff sf pudding - banana - ff milk shake 280 cal

total cal 1414 total points 5



Made me some oatmeal bars, totally core/sft ingredients, going to get rid of the processed cereal bars. Hopefully they taste Ok. Just need something on hand for when the munchies hit. Plan on trying one for snack later.

GM and the sun is shinning this morning, so looking forward to spring.

Yesterday went better then I thought. I miss calculated the calories in the oatmeal bars (double then what they were) So for once the mistake was in my favor. yeaaa:dizzy:

Pulled out my South Beach book (yep I have been on every diet know to man kind) lol Anyhoo his recipes are very Sft friendly and yes he follows the low glycemic index. Kinda of an eye opener May stay away from bananas high up there plus higher calorie.

NO NO I am not changing diets again, but will try to make a few better choices and hopefully cut out some of my cravings. My Oatmeal bars will work, but next time I make them I wont put pineapple in them. and cook them like a cookie to get them more crunchy, Puffed wheat cereal is up there too, after I finish what I have off then that's that. In fact all the wheat stuff is way up on the Index (Always a good idea to cut out wheat)

Another eye opener is instant rice is way lower then the brown. So guess who is going to buy the cheap stuff again. OK OK so I am fine tuning my selections. Have no desire to go on South beach and cut out a lot of stuff. (phase 1) Phase 2 is very similar to WW. He also lets you use ff sf pudding.

Last night had plenty of left overs to make myself real food TV dinners. That store bought one yesterday was OK but all the crap in it bloats the heck out of me. And even tho the calories where exceptable it cost to many points. I would like to get to the point where I don't have to use points.

Well I got my weekly sheet figured out. I hate WW journals. Will not get another. Worked on my ever going shopping list, will be nice to have choices on hand. A lot of it is staples. Since I really haven't been doing a lot of cooking and baking there was no need to buy them. Well pick up a few things each time I go to the store.

So today I well eat what I want and see if the calories fall into place again.
got up through the night and eat 3 of those oatmeal bars way friendlier then then the brownies that got me a few weeks ago. Put them on my daily sheet this morning.

I am not out to change my eating times anymore. When my body wants something then I will give it something (better food). I have really gotten to know the time of day that hits me with hunger. So will not drive myself crazy and feeling guilt for not have 3 square meals a day and a snack. I will eat when the urge to eat hits.

Wrote a mini book this morning lol need to get busy

Well today is my weigh in day 175.2 a loss of .8 lbs Its a small amount but 5lbs on the nose lost in 4 weeks. Considering I have been diet plan hoping I will take it :)

Yesterday I used no points but my calories were 1765 due to the constant munching on oatmeal bars. Yes that shows me I have a control problem and need to make single servings or the amount I will allow in one day.

Today's plan is to get on my treadmill and walk for 20 min. Will start slow as I have a knee issue going on and do not want to aggravate it any more.

Hi...I love your idea of "oatmeal bars". I've been eating pumpkin muffins every morning w/turkey sausage. It's great, but I know I need to change it up sometimes. Would you mind posting your recipe for your oatmeal bars please?:)

joyfulloser hey been reading your daily post and was thinking about going with the pumpkin muffins lol. I am on my way out the door and will put it up when I get home.

Did
31.39 min on treadmill at 2.5 mph.= 1.2 miles, 154 calories burned 2 Ap's earned

Going back and looking over what I have ate, its easy to see where I can change a few things. Also I have no plans of starting to workout and defeat that purpose by over eating.

breakfast
....orange ff milk smoothie 150 cal

lunch
....2 slices lite bread 70 cal
....1.2oz dark chicken meat 66 cal
....avocado....190 cal
....1oz baked chips 110 cal 2 points

Dinner
....1.5 oz dark chicken meat 83 cal
....shrimp fried rice 400

snacks for the day
....2 cereal bars 200 cal 4 points
....orange ff milk smoothie 150

total cal 1489 ....6 points

Yesterday went so will. But I need to cook up a attack snack for those darn middle of the night raids. When I'm half asleep I have no control and grab anything. Last night I grabbed 2 cookies not to bad in calories but I'm sure a killer in points. Really I probable don't need to worry about points but my goal was to be clean eating. Points in my book means trash food.

Today I am making the black beans brownie recipe. not sure if I will make it muffin style or bars. One thing for sure is no matter how weird it is, it is a heather way to go.

I really need to start planing ahead on meals. Kinda like fish on Fridays, chicken on Monday ect... this I'm sure will help in the shopping list and how much I need for a week or 2 weeks. Having very little money to spend on a lot of stuff its hard to plan. But well see.

Yesterday went to the store and picked up a few more baking things so slowly building up a variety of foods in the house again. I just need to be patient and persist the best way I can. I got through 4 weeks so I know I can manage. Once the utility bills drop, it will give me the extra cash to buy the healthy choices. So yea light at the end of the tunnel :)

Treadmill varied the speed, 32.04 min, 1.3 miles, 162 cal burned, 2 Ap's earned


Middle of the night raid
....2 cookies 130 cal 3 points

breakfast
....2 bean brownies 200 cal

late lunch
....1 oz baked chips 110 cal 2 points
....3/4 cups ff re-fried beans 135 cal
....1/2 cup salsa 40 cal

dinner
....Sm hamburger patty 155 cal
....broccoli 35 cal
....potato 110
....lite sour cream 50 cal 1 point

snack
....banana, ff sf pudding bean cake cup,ff milk
.... all blended together smoothie 312 calories
....

total daily calories 1277.... 6 total points used

That sounds like a great day calorie wise! You cannn dooo it! Keep up the great work! :)