April 11, 2007
Not Eating As Much
I've discovered that I can't eat two cups of grapes in one sitting anymore. By about one and a half cups I'm feeling sort of uncomfortable and not at all interested in more food. I know I was able to happily eat two full cups of grapes as of three weeks ago, because I have records of everything I ate since joining Weight Watchers.
On one hand, it's good that my stomach is shrinking, since my current breadth suggests that it did not need to be as big as it was. On the other hand it is highly creepy to have empirical evidence of organ change. At least it seems creepy to me.
I'm going to try dropping to one cup of grapes and see if that makes me more happy. In general I've been having a difficult time eating as much food as I should for the last week or so. At the beginning, right after I joined Weight Watchers, it was more like, "can I find enough low point food to make me happy?" Now it's like, "oh crap, I can't eat enough low point food to use up my points." Alan says I should just not use my points, but that seems like a bad idea to me, because I know I will be hungrier the next day (as I was several times when I didn't use my points).
All of this is very much complicated by the fact that I can't feel most of the middle range of the "how hungry/full are you" scale that Weight Watchers encourages you to pay attention to. I can tell when I'm very hungry. I can tell when I'm stuffed to the point of being nearly sick. Everything else feels the same to me (this is due to medication side effects, not a defect in my body). I'm trying to just stay somewhere in that zone, but I have a lot fewer cues to go by.
I've been trying to gain some ground by just having a better idea of how much I should eat, and then spacing that out evenly as rather small meals or snacks across the day. Up until the last week or so this was working just fine. I guess I'm going to need to re-take the points-calculating test and rethink the list of foods I'll eat regularly.
On a tangentially related note, my triangle shaped rice ball molds finally came in the mail, so now I can try making stuffed onigiri. Yay!
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