Did anyone else feel this way?
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Did anyone else feel this way?
| Tue, 11-11-2003 - 1:24pm |
This is my 3rd day on SBD and I feel as if I'm doing everything wrong. I'm following the food lists in Phase 1, but I still feel like I'm eating all the wrong things.
I am a WW lifetime member (I have 20 pounds to lose due to a throid problem that has finally been corrected) and I'm so used to eating things with "low points", ie. bread, fruit, 2 point bars, etc.. I'm not used to eating nuts and eggs and cottage cheese. I also think I'm eating more than I did on WW. I feel as if at the end of the two weeks I'll actually gain weight instead of losing.
This seems too good to be true. Did anyone else feel this way in the beginning?

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Hi and welcome!
Maggie
"Success is a journey, not a destination"
Here is a little mini support group thread that is in the section below, "Phase 1".
Maggie
"Success is a journey, not a destination"
I'm a former Weight Watcher (though I never got to goal and became a lifetime member.) I have to admit, I had my doubts about SB, coming from that (WW) point of view. But since I had tried and failed WW three times (I would lose some, not much, get angry and frustrated with it, and then go on to gain even more), I decided to give SB a try.
Since I didn't come right from WW to SB, phase 1 was for me a reduction in my eating. But I was still skeptical, and all of the points of things would roll through my head. I would cringe when I put olive oil on my salad, and wonder how many points that was. LOL.
But all I can say is that it's working for me. I lost 9 pounds in phase 1, and have lost nearly 30 total, since Aug. 28.
Hope it works for you, too. Good luck!!
Jill K.
phase 2
(228,199.5,145)
Good luck,
alison
Good Luck, and Welcome!
Nancy :)
P.S. I came from 'Atkins', so sometimes I still can't believe that I'm not counting carbs!
Let me throw a little educational psychology at everyone trying to reconcile previous mindsets about different diets to SBD :-) It's easier to learn new information if you connect it in your mind to something you already know. So, if you're used to counting points for what you eat, go through the food lists and either assign the foods their WW point values or create your own point system for them, and then use that to plan your meals. Make sure that you're using the points to fit into the SBD system. For example, foods that are safe for Phase 1 would have the best point values, foods safe for Phase 2 would be slightly less valuable, and foods not safe till Phase 3 would have the least value. This might help you make the transition from purely counting points to thinking about the content of the food itself.
I hope this helps!
Teacher Shan
Good Luck!
Chazzy
I've been bouncing around for awhile :-) In college I worked as a tutor/nanny for elementary age kids, and when I graduated I went to work for a non-profit that teaches coexistence skills to teenagers who grew up in war zones (mostly Middle East), but there were too many admin and fundraising aspects to that job, so I left during a restructuring and went to teach preschool for a year. I liked teaching a whole class, but actually missed working with the teens (scary, isn't it?!), so this fall I went back to school to get certified to teach junior high and high school social studies, and am still working with preschool on the side. I'm taking most of my psych classes this semester, can't you tell? :-)
T.S.
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