That’s the recommendation for fruits and vegetables.  Nine a day.  I’m doing a 2:1 ratio … 2 vegetable servings for every 1 fruit which translates to 3 fruits and 6 vegetables a day.  It seems like a lot of fruit to me, but then I haven’t eaten fruit on a regular basis for months.  So I’m going to try it … see how the hunger and the weight loss shake out.  I can always do more vegetables than fruit if I need to.  Right now, though, I’m loving having the fruit.

Meanwhile I’ve switched from the Points+ on WW to Simply Filling (SF).  Tish, another BBF, has mentioned it several times since it was what she was doing, so I thought I’d try it.  I was doing well on the regular Points+ but felt I needed to get back to a more SB style of eating.  With SF the only things I count are the extras.  The first thing I noticed was that while my Oroweat thins didn’t count toward my extras, my peanut butter did.  And once I started thinking about what was worthy and what wasn’t, the peanut butter didn’t make the cut.  (My dark chocolate did … really the only thing that did.)

For me, it’s making me even more mindful of what I’m eating.  And I’m hoping that it becomes a way of life, rather than just a way of eating.

I like that I don’t feel like I have to do this in an exact, no going off, way, like I did with SB the first two times I did it.  I was perfect then … no going off track, no sugar, no goodies, hardly any fruit.  Lost the weight in a couple of months and the minute I started adding a few things in here and there I gained it all back.  Took me losing and re-gaining twice to realize it isn’t all about the losing; it’s about keeping it off.  So I’ll keep tweaking trying to figure out what works for me.