The Great Purge!

September 13, 2004

Yesterday my wife and I went through our kitchen and purged everything

that wasn't on the Core Food List: cereal, non-whole wheat pasta, cookies,

crackers, bread, that sort of thing. Much of the stuff was un-opened, so

we packed it into a box to deliver to a food closet in town.

Then we went shopping. We went to the natural food store in the next town

where we were able to find whole wheat pasta and flour in bulk, as well as

a lot of the fruits and vegetables that we love -- or, at least, tolerate.

Organic, too! Overall, we spent something like $150 on food yesterday.

We're so used to grabbing snack foods whenever we're hungry and counting

the Points for them (or, at least, making a show of it) that the Core Plan

is going to be a big adjustment for us.

A couple of issues: First, much of the Core Plan requires cooking and

preparation, which is hard for a couple of lazy bums like us who like to

just grab and go.

Second, the satisfaction thing is hard to measure. " Eat as much as you

need to feel satisfied, " say the WW guidelines. This is difficult to

gauge for someone like me who enjoys the feeling of being stuffed t'the

gills. has a similar problem; she can eat until she feels

satisfied, but then she's hungry again shortly afterward (which means, she

says, that she's always hungry and *never* satisfied). We have a friend

who tried the Core program and gained something like six pounds on it (I

suspect that her problem was misjudging her satisfaction level).

's afraid that this is what's going to happen to her. Has anyone

got any suggestions for dealing with always being hungry?

Not having to count Points, on the other hand, is nice. Kind of liberating.

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S. Crawford (243/243/153)

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