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This week's topic: Flexible Restraint. Monitor Yourself.

Weight Watchers is all about living the new lifestyle. Not feeling as though we must follow one rigid food plan constantly. The new Momentum plan helps teach us that if we choose filling foods most of the time, but are flexible and include foods that we love regularly that we can truly turn this into a lifestyle instead of a "diet".

Hunger can be hazardous. If we don't monitor our hunger signals we might find that we are starving and then reach for anything. When we monitor we have a much better chance of knowing when we're getting hungry so that we can plan a filling food snack or meal.

Do you show flexible restraint? Are you monitoring your hunger signals as they suggest?

Tell us about it

Today at meeting, a new friend mentioned that it was her birthday on Monday. She said that she was looking into cakes to make, and then decided that what she really & truly wanted was a slice of Cheesecake Factory Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake.

So, knowing what she wanted, she went online, searched for the nutritional content, discovered that it was 22 points for one slice. Decided that she still wanted the cheesecake, and so she planned her whole day including the cheesecake & using some FP to work around it.

A perfect example of flexible restraint. She planned for something she wanted. And her days before & after the cake were perfectly normal food days.

Saturdays are my higher-points days. And I planned this past Saturday to eat some homemade veggie pizza. It was high in points, two slices (they were big) were 21 points all together. But I wanted them, so I planned them into my evening and had a good lighter salad with dinner. It was fabulous. I had what I wanted. I didn't feel deprived, but I didn't gorge myself.

I have to be honest and say that I'm not monitoring my hunger signals as WW is suggesting I don't go in every 2 hours and put a dot on the paper as they say. What I do, and what I've been doing almost since I started WW is to be mindful when I eat. And to mentally note how I feel. If I feel my stomach rumble, I pause and feel: Am I hungry? How hungry am I?

Or right before a meal I pause and think the same thing. If I start to feel full during dinner, again, same questions.

So while I'm not writing it down on the chart, I am paying attention to my hunger.