Glad There Was Room on the WW Bandwagon!

I've had two revelations in the past week:
1. I eat too fast
2. I'm impatient

I've been cyber-stalking the lovely, kickass, tattooed Sheryl over at bitchcakes and read here that she spends her entire lunch hour munching on her deliciously, colorful salad. An HOUR! I made a similar salad for lunch today, took one look at it, and thought, "I could inhale this thing in five minutes!"

No wonder I end up feeling bloated and stuffed all the time. I'm not listening to my body or even giving my stomach enough time to tell my brain, "please stop shoveling in more food. I've had enough!"

My goal this week is to work on eating more slowly and actually stopping when I feel satisfied, NOT full!

I also need to work on being more patient. I'm terrible when it comes to delayed gratification. Isn't that what credit cards are for? (See last post for a prime example of immediate gratification and why credit cards can be evil.) And also, I'm not going to wake up 135 pounds tomorrow morning, so I need to just chill the frick out and enjoy the ride!

All of this self-awareness above is courtesy of this:
I joined Weight Watchers online this past Tuesday. Why? Because I needed the science. I can count calories all day long until I'm blue in the face, but I really respect WW approach: if you don't choose wisely, you will starve to death... It really forces you to make smart choices.

Let me explain: if you don't pick healthy, filling foods and instead load up on chips, fries and my person fave Twinkies - then your daily WW points will be gone before you can say, "Why don't my sweatpants fit anymore?" Since starting WW this week, I've started looking at food differently (again. For the billionth time.)

I've tried WW in the past, but thanks to technology it will be much easier to follow the plan. And I'm not a big fan of group meetings, BUT I am a fan of being anal and tracking things on spreadsheets and online. I track my points and weigh-ins online, and even have access to my profile and points calculator on my BlackBerry. Oooooh, fancy!