Thursday, February 8, 2007

"Meal on My Own"

so im embarking on a career change and going into teaching esl and i'm leaving for south korea TOMORROW MORNING! im very very exited. im packing, stocked up on deodorant, got my boxes all set to send to myself later full of cute smaller clothes, gonna be great. i had one last appointment with jc yesterday; i wanted to discuss doing what they call "meal on my own." w/jc, you get your main jc meals and then your snacks, and the snacks are defined as a starch, fat, meat, milk, fruit, or vegetable. they gave me a break down of how many of each im to have at my calorie level of 1700 a day. so for example the jc complete start cereal i used to eat in the morning is equal to 1starch and 1milk. so i can find my own cereal, or go to the jc list of what's a starch and what's a milk and have something else. i can also mix them up however i want, like eat 4 meats in one sitting if i wanted, so long as i eat everything listed for that day and not go over calories. it's much easier than i thought it would be. being on jc for this little while, the transition is ok. this is why i dont agree w/people who say jc is no good b/c you'll gain all the weight back once you stop eating their food. not so, you're supposed to stay on the program, you transition slowly from jc food to your own, one meal at a time, until you're doing all your own. if you gained everything back once you stop w/jc food, then you werent paying attention when you were on the program. dont blame jc, you'd have gained it back anyway. same reason i dont blame optifast, or nutrisystem or anything else ive done where i was not successful with the program, b/c really EVERY PROGRAM WORKS, but it's what you do and how you live after you finish said program that counts most. pero anyways, the scale is bouncing around 238-240, hasn't gone over 240.5 in days. im happy. and man, do i LOVE my stupid step workout, i've been doing it everyday. i want to buy a new step dvd now. so let me get off this computer, i got so much stuff to do. good day, blogworld!

1 comment:

Lori Bailey said...

How exciting for you! Both going on your own with your weight loss and the move to Korea!! Looks like you have more than one adventure in store.

Happy Traveling!