When it counts

It always counts.

Calories, points, carbs, whatever it is you choose to monitor. It all adds up and it all counts.

This time around, I'm counting calories. Honestly, you eat less. Points are great for those who want to maintain and lose slowly but I'm in weight loss crisis mode.

1,200 calories per day - ideally. That is the weight loss zone. Not any less. We aren't STARVING - it just feels like it!!

Did you know that vegetables have calories?! It all does. On Weight Watchers, vegetables are zero points (unless you eat a whole bag of them - which believe me, I've done.)

So, thank you sparkpeople.com. Most of the foods I eat are already in there.

Weight Watchers has an online system that works too but sparkpeople is free. I love it.

I feel thinner today. Hopefully it's true. I'm not going to weigh in for a day or so. Seems obsessive - even though I am, in fact, obsessing about weight loss yet again. I'm trying to take some of that away by not monitoring the progress on the scale on a daily basis.

Studies have shown that those who weigh themselves daily are - on average - 7 pounds lighter than those that do not.

Everyone else tells you to weigh yourself once per week.

You choose.