The Last Day - The New Plan

This is it.

It is that last day.

It his the last day I will allow myself to think like the old "Alan".

I am not saying I will be perfect. I tried that before...it did not work so good.

I will, however, be healthy. If I am eating healthy AT LEAST 90% of the time I think I can consider myself healthy.

I want to eat healthy 100% of the time, however, as long as I possibly can in 2011.

Healthy needs to become a habit and habits only happen with consistency..

People keep saying that if you stay away from the "bad" foods you like long enough your tastes will change and the next time you try what you used to like you won't like it anymore.

Personally...it has never been my reality.

I am going to give these people the benefit of the doubt and assume that I just haven't stayed away from the "bad" foods I like for long enough.

So my major challenge will start tomorrow.

I know I shouldn't say "starting tomorrow" but I am going to. There is something magical about starting with a new determination on January 1st.

So....starting tomorrow I am going to eat 100% healthy for as long as I can possibly hold out...after that I am going to eat AT LEAST 90% healthy for the remainder if the year.

Note I did not say that I was going to eat "low fat". I will eat naturally low fat foods but I am not going to eat processed low fat foods. It will be the full fat options for me.

For those of you on Weight Watchers, rest assured, I have a plan. I believe that I can be 100% "on plan" with Weight Watchers and eat only natural and full fat foods ( I am talking whole milk, butter, etc.).

My plan is as follows.

1) I am switching to Weight Watchers "Simply Filling" technique where you can eat any Power Foods (the list is extensive) until you are satisfied (an important word) without counting points. Outside of this group of foods I have 49 extra points available to me per week.
2) I will exercise ten hours a week (I often do that anyway) which gives me an additional 50 points I can eat. So I have 99 points a week in total to spend outside my group of Power Foods (believe me...with Wine costing about 21 points for a bottle this can still go fast).
3) I created my own Power Foods List, printed it off, and will put it on the fridge today.

My list differs from Weight Watcher's in the following way:

Whenever their "Power Food" list states a low fat version of a food, I entered the full fat version I would eat on MY list in blue WITH its associated point value.

Whenever I eat a "blue" food from the list I have to count the points toward the 99 point weekly allowance. So it is full fat but it is not a free ride to full fat.

It sounds perfect to me. I do my plan my way, which is in-line with my beliefs as a budding Holistic Nutritionist, but am simultaneously remaining 100% within the rules of Weight Watchers guidelines.

I am actually excited to see if it works.

I don't expect to see any results by this Wednesdays weigh-in, but the following Wednesday will be the first indicator.

Wish me luck and be healthy!

Alan