Re: Confession time: calorie bank

[Guest guest]

WW allows for flex points but not quite on that scale. Maybe you should

plan to bank 500 calories (or whatever seems reasonable) per week so you can

splurge. Going too low in calories so you can have an apple pie is just

putting yourself in starving and binging mode though. I'm a firm believer

in customizing plans to fit our needs as long as we're staying healthy and

honest with ourselves.

Ann

----- Original Message -----

From: " Kim " <kimlord@...>

> Now don't anybody yell at me.

>

> Some days I have not gotten all of my exchanges in. I kept track of

> them on my calendar and at one point I had 1,400 calories worth of

> unused exchanges. I was figuring I could save 3,500 calories

> eventually and eat an entire apple pie all by myself.

[Guest guest]

I'm not intentionally saving up for a binge. Some days I had two

fruits OR a dairy window open at the end of the day. One day I had

three fats left over. I just banked them instead of eating when I

wasn't hungry.

It is still insanity, but somehow the measured insanity saves me from

a full blown breakdown.

Kim

> WW allows for flex points but not quite on that scale. Maybe

you should

> plan to bank 500 calories (or whatever seems reasonable) per week

so you can

> splurge. Going too low in calories so you can have an apple pie is

just

> putting yourself in starving and binging mode though. I'm a firm

believer

> in customizing plans to fit our needs as long as we're staying

healthy and

> honest with ourselves.

>

> Ann

>

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: " Kim " <kimlord@m...>

>

>

> > Now don't anybody yell at me.

> >

> > Some days I have not gotten all of my exchanges in. I kept track

of

> > them on my calendar and at one point I had 1,400 calories worth of

> > unused exchanges. I was figuring I could save 3,500 calories

> > eventually and eat an entire apple pie all by myself.

[Guest guest]

Kim,

I was thinking this sounds alot like the WW flex points as well.

Maybe there is someone on list that can answer how many flex points

(aka:calories) they are allowed to build up a week.

I know that Pie must be really good to want to save up *that* many

calories for If you really want it why not make sure that

and your Daughter and maybe her boyfriend will all be there so you

have other people eating it as well, and you will not have *as* much

to eat, or better yet fit it into your meal plan (or at least a slice

of it). I have made Splenda Apple Pies and they tasted wonderful,

you just have to figure in the crust and *I* personally used the

apple as a fruit exchange. When I had Meredith into the nutritionist

(she goes again next month) she was asking Meredith about foods that

had fruit in them, and Meredith said " apple pie's a fruit " , the

nutritionist wasn't going to allow it until I butted in! I said, it

is a baked apple with some splenda/cinnamon and maybe rasins on it,

*IF* it isn't a fruit then what the heck is it?, Granted it is in

between some " breadding " (which can be made lower fat) but it's

*still* a fruit. She told Meredith that if I called it a fruit then

that was fine.

Anyhow.... now that I'm going off topic..... If you can't find

anyone on flex points I think I may know where I can get the

answers

a

who still has to look for tuna recipes

[Guest guest]

> If you really want it why not make sure that

> and your Daughter and maybe her boyfriend will all be there so you

> have other people eating it as well, and you will not have *as*

much

> to eat, or better yet fit it into your meal plan (or at least a

slice

> of it).

Last year I did work in a piece of strawberry pie on 's

birthday.

I'm nowhere near 3,500 calories in my little bank. More likely I'll

get hungry again when I am out of windows and dip into my " savings "

for something like a bowl of granola cereal with milk. (240 calories

for 1/2 cup--ridiculous!)

Kim