Take one day at a time. Start writing down what as well as how large a
portion you are eating. Normal WW portions are 3-4 oz of meat, chicken or
fish. More, depending on how many points you have per day. If you are really
serious about starting WW you will get rid of all of the junk in your house
and start over with healthy food. No sense in trying to start WW with snacks
and food like pizza in the house. This is no way to start WW, imho. Go to
some of the WW meetings and read their materials and sample menus to give
you an idea of how much food your target points give you. Then get to the
store and buy lots of low point foods to get you through the day. Good luck.

"Amanda" wrote in message
...
OK,

After four days, I am nowhere near the allotted points yet, as I'm
unwilling to
start feeling deprived because honestly, it kicks up all sorts of
unhealthy and
wacky emotional stuff for me, and I end up eating more, not less. This
has got
to be fun, and feel good, or forget it, I'm better off not playing with
dieting
fire at all -- too dangerous, I don't want to get bigger!

I'm really testing to see if this is something I can use to GENTLY and
SLOWLY
retrain myself, to be nicer to myself. I honestly have no clue about
portion
sizes, I can see that.

People asked me to post my day's "menus", ha ha ha, I'm still just
haphazardly
grazing through what was already here (like 2 large Papa John's pizzas
laying
around from Friday night -- not a common event) and doing what I'd
normally do,
*but* keeping an eye on portions.

As the days have gone by, I've been playing a little with the portions,
paring
them down to whatever "one" WW serving size is, and seeing when I feel
hungry
again.

With that, here's a telling trend -- these are "Flex Points Spent" per
day,
from day one through today (if I just eat what I plan to eat):
26.5 (pizza)
21 (out with friends, ordered the duck)
16.5
12

I am about to go make my dinner, again, keeping the portions down, but
eating
what's here/what I want to eat. I'm VERY hungry, it's almost alarming,
it's
like I don't know what it feels like, ha ha ha. Hopefully dinner will be
satisfying (steak, potatoes, corn) and I won't need a snack. Gotta go to
the
store and get some bananas and apples. :-)

Slowly getting the point...
Amanda the
~dietphobic
TDC Ginny Favers, Captive Princess of Chickapin Hill
Planning my next trip way, way, way too far in advance:
12/03 - Villas at Wilderness Lodge & Animal Kingdom Lodge
Summer '05 - Disneyland
Trip Reports at http://www.ginnyfavers.blogspot.com