Week 2 - The Curse of the Polish Buffet

by Kelli Cheatham (kcheatham@wsbt.com)

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It's the end of Week 2, but technically the beginning of Week 3. I meet with Laura, my dietician, later today. I'm not sure if she's going to see the kind of progress on the scale as last week, because I had a rough weekend for eating healthy!

Friday was a rehearsal dinner, then the wedding was on Saturday. How can you say no to the traditional Polish buffet? I can't. However, I was extremely mindful of my portion sizes. Part of what they're teaching us in this program is to know how much we're eating. For example, one measuring cup of something is about the size of a fist.

That makes it easy to calculate later when we're trying to figure out how many calories, grams of fat and carbohydrates are in that particular food. When I finally did get around to writing it all down the next day, I realized there were more calories in what I drank than the food I ate! Oops! But I had a great time, and I wasn't too far off my calorie intake range.

I did get back into the gym last week, and I went both Saturday and Sunday. I'm getting back into the swing of it, but it's not necessarily easy. I'll have to admit, I haven't used the exercise band Memorial gave me. It's supposed to take the place of lifting weights at the gym if I can't make it.

One question I have for you: have you started your own weight loss program yet? Remember, all WSBT viewers get a 10% discount off the program at Memorial Bariatric & Weight Loss Center through the end of March. What are you waiting for?!

Feel free to e-mail me your own success stories at kcheatham@wsbt.com. Put Why Weight? in the subject line.

Friday, Feb 8 at 6:59 AM Renee wrote ...

I just found this Why Weight thing today, Im on the site everyday! This look really interesting and I think Im going to try it out, after I read up on everything though! Good luck to our WSBT "family" with your goals!

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