Okay, I wanted to let you know what I like about the Core plan.  I've gotten comments about "I've been afraid to switch to Core...", so I wanted to let you know how I like it and why.

Being on core means:

• When I approach a meal, I think about what I will eat, and I just prepare it and eat it. I don't have to measure it. I don't have to look it up.
• When my weeks are busy, like my past one has been, I don't even write Core items down. I am following plan, and that's enough.
• Using this plan, I am able to begin to see what I am doing as an actual lifestyle change, rather than something I am doing for a season.  For me, real life is serve a meal, eat a reasonable amount of the items I've planned, and stop eating when I am satisfied.
• Using this plan, I have the freedom to go outside the plan if I feel like the hassle of keeping track of my 35 bonus points.

So, for example, what Mother's Day looked like:

Breakfast:  Oatmeal, coffee with fat-free half and half

Snack: apple

Lunch: Our big dinner: rib-eye steak, salad, baked potato with fat-free sour cream, fried onions, raw veggies, and a glass of skim milk.

Dinner: Home made chicken salad with fat-free mayonnaise.

Snack: a banana, and later still had some 94% fat free popcorn. At bedtime I had a cookies and cream Weight Watcher's "Ice Cream" bar.

Now that is not necessarily perfect, but it gives you the idea.  Today started with oatmeal, and I haven't planned the rest of the day out, but it doesn't really matter. I've surrounded myself with core foods, and when I need lunch I will just pick from the core foods.

Gotta go get on with my day now. Probably will not get to weigh in until Saturday, but we'll see.  Blessings,

D