First Week on Diet To Go

I'd really like to lose some weight. My Wii Fit tells me that I need to lose some weight, and my aching knees give me a more personal recommendation. I've lost weight before, lots of it. But I've also gained it back, in even larger amounts. And I'm just a wee bit obsessive-compulsive, so dieting makes me into a total nut-case. I start out okay, just cutting back on calories/fat/carbs/whatever here and there. But as the weight starts to come off more and more slowly, I start to obsess about what to cut next, what to eat next, when to eat next, etc. Pretty soon, I'm spending most of my day thinking about eating, dieting, losing weight, not losing weight, and I'm a nut-case.

So this time, I thought I would try a pre-packaged meal plan. Because I'll probably lose the same weight either way, but this takes all the thinking out of it. I did some research, and the plan that was the most flexible while still using real food with ingredients I recognize, was Diet To Go. My DH agreed to do this with me, because the Wii Fit tells him that he's overweight, and his back surgeon agreed. The Diet to Go plan has a 1200 calorie plan and a 1600 calorie plan, and you get to choose how many meals to purchase. I got myself the 1200 calorie breakfast, lunch and dinner plan. Not because I intended to restrict myself to 1200 calories, but because after I add in two cups of coffee with creamer, I'm up to 1400 calories, and then I have the freedom to add a piece of fruit or a small snack if I'm still hungry and stay around 1500. My DH picked the 1600 calorie meal plan (because he's a damned guy, which means his body just naturally burns more calories) for breakfast and dinner only. He's always moving around at lunch time and can't carry food around with him.

I've been on it for a week. First off, the Wii Fit tells me that I've lost 10 pounds, which would be great if I didn't know that 7-8 of it was water, but still, I'm satisfied. I definitely have not had to think about dieting or meal planning or anything else. I just pick up the food at a local gym, shove it into my refrigerator, and eat whatever they tell me to when they tell me to. It's that simple. The meals have been tastier than they've looked. A few I was truly scared to eat, and they ended up tasting just fine. I can't say too much has been delicious, except for the brownie, mentioned in an earlier post. But only one or two meals have been awful, so that's a pretty acceptable deal. One meal was really spicy and made me kind of sick. I'll remember to switch out of that one if it comes around again. I've made a few substitutions of my own, such as fresh carrots for mushy cooked ones, my own jelly instead of the cream cheese, etc.

So I'm definitely staying on it for another week. DH, on the other hand, decided that he didn't like it enough better than eating regular pre-packaged frozen foods, so he's ending his experiment. That's okay, it gives me the option in the future of switching to a different less flexible plan if I want.