after saying I wanted to check out all those sites yesterday that I love information.  I love knowing everything I can know about stuff.  (not all stuff, just stuff that attracts my interest).  And I love associating, correlating and dispensing information (hence the love for Excel charts) .

There is the good and the bad about that though.  The good is that I know a lot about what I know about.  The bad is that I often get information overload and sometimes I’m so busy gathering the information that I never do get around to using it.

So yesterday I did use WW online and spark people … I found out I wasn’t eating all my base points (I ate 21 out of 29) and my calorie count was at 1100.  Normally I’d add a fruit to up my calorie count to 1200, but I’ve limited myself to one fruit a day for the first week of Phase II.  And I don’t have any nuts in the house which would be my second choice.  (The nuts are all gone because Mac loves to eat them (I don’t usually) and I refuse to buy them here when they are twice as much as they are in the states.  And yes I realize that we are only talking a couple of dollars, but it still bugs me to overpay, so I wait to go to the states and get several cans then.)  I think today I’m going to up my protein servings and pick up the calories there.

And I read something interesting on somebody’s blog (don’t remember whose … it was the first time I’d read it).  They said they were doing WW and went to see an obesity doctor because they weren’t losing.  The doctor said that the problem with WW and their reducing their points (i.e. calories) when you are losing is that your body should be getting more efficient at consuming calories as you lose weight and therefore you should be able to lose on the same number if not more.  The blogger said that that may be why WW has the exercise points you can add in.

So I got to thinking about SB.  In Phase II, week 1 you have 1 fruit and 1 starch.  In week 2 you have 2 fruit and 2 starch, until week 3 when you get to 3 fruit and 3 starch a day (in addition, of course, to your protein and your vegetables.)  Now he says you need to add in the fruit and starch carefully … if you find you don’t continue to lose or actually gain, then you cut back again.  But it is interesting that in essence it takes from low to high whereas WW takes you from high to low (until maintenance when WW has you add in quite a few points until you find the level where you are maintaining.)

Not sure if this is still true of WW with the new points system … I seemed to get the idea that the lowest you could go was 29 points with 49 extra.  Maybe Tish will come back into the blogging world and tell me.    Or maybe I’ll go research it myself.