ok, so not perfict

It turns out that the yogurt I'm buying has one starch exchange in it. I thought that scene it was Nancy's plain with no sugar that it would only count as one dairy exchange and that is all. But, no I have been going over by two starches everyday:-( I think I'm going to be hungry again for a few days. I have good news thought...I have been doing great on all other levels!

My nutrition class was funny. The SS had to tell us how we shouldn't drink a bunch of alcohal. The ladies in my class must drink alot because they really kept hammering it in with laying off the beer. SS said to limit yourself to one or two drinks a week which made me laugh because I think I have one or two drinks a month at the most.

Included in this diet are "free foods" this is a list of foods that you can consume that don't count towards any of your exchanges. On the list are the obvious lettuce, cucumbers, celery...but also 10 goldfish crackers, 1 sugar-free fudge pop, 2 saltine crackers, 1 cup of light popcorn, and 1 vanilla wafer. The concept of free foods cracks me up because what if you only ate free foods all day long would that be like not eating at all? What if I ate 10 goldfish in the morning and then 10 at lunch and then 10 at dinner and the 10 right before I go to bed, do all those goldfish really not count? Last week when we started this diet the told us we could eat all the free foods we wanted and it would be ok. Tonight they told us that we now need to limit ourselves to only 3-5 free food per day. I sat in the front row and started to laugh lightly to myself as half the class lets out an "aww". SS asked me if that was going to be heard. I said, "no, I only ate 3-5 of them through out the whole week, it will be fine." I don't know, they are already having us eat 5 times a day. Really when do you have time to eat even more then that? Maybe things will change when I start counting that yogurt as a starch and I will need those free foods. The fudge pop is my favorite.

Well, tonight they weighed us. I don't have a problem with being weighed but I have an issue with how it was done, no, they didn't strip us down naked, announce it to the class, or any thing strange. But they are comparing it to our original weight from when we first signed up for the study. That was the beginning of November, two holidays ago! I don't remember what my weight was that day two months ago but I'm worried that it will show that I have gained weight scene starting the study but that is because around Christmas I ate fudge for 5 days. Me, and a lot of the women may have, a little, gone slightly overboard over Christmas knowing that the diet started after the first of January. I am just wishing that they would have weighed us last week the night before the diet and exercise plan was put into place. We will weigh again next week so my plan is to call the weight that I weighed tonight as my original weight. I will let you all know if I lost or not after the next weigh in.