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I know this is only Day Two of me following the new PointsPlus Weight Watchers plan, but I'm totally in love with it. It makes so much more sense than the old plan. <br /><br />Counting calories works for losing weight. Eat less, move more. Of course it works. With the old Weight Watcher plan there were ways to "cheat". I had been doing it for so long that I figured out how to stretch my Points (but this also increased my empty calories). The problem was I would sometimes (probably too often) choose foods that weren't as healthy because  they were lower in Points than a more healthy version of that food. Well, Weight Watchers fixed this problem. Foods that are fake are no longer the better choice because of lower Points.<br /><br />A perfect example are the Oroweat Sandwich Thins* versus Dave's Killer Bread** (check out the ingredients for both at the end of this post). Two slices of paper thin fake bread, the sandwich thins, were one Point on the old plan. Dave's Killer Bread, 21 Whole Grain (and delicious) was two Points. On the new PointsPlus plan they're both <strong>3 Points</strong>. Now I'll always choose the one I like the most and is healthier, Dave's Killer bread! <br /><br />By the way, Dave isn't a "killer" and he is a real person. He served quite a bit of jail time over the years for drug possession and he was a drug dealer for a while, the lowest form of humanity. However, he's totally turned his life around with the family bakery business. I've actually emailed him a couple of times, and he responded. He's a super nice guy and makes "killer" bread (now available at Costco and Winco). Here's a video on his life story, <a href="http://www.daveskillerbread.com/story.shtml">Dave's Story</a>. It's very interesting how he changed his life. <br /><br />Anyway, back to the PointsPlus plan...the Points earned for activity have increased dramatically. I earned 14 APs yesterday. Seriously, there's no way I could eat all of those and lose weight. My heart rate monitor (which I think lied to me) said I burned 800 calories in two hours at the gym. Maybe, but probably not. That just doesn't sound realistic, the 800 calories or the 14 Points. According <a href="http://msbitchcakes.blogspot.com/">*Bitch Cakes*</a> (who wrote a much better post about the new plan than me), we can only cash in a total of 42 activity Points a week, regardless of how many we earn. <br /><br />So far, I love this plan. I ate well yesterday and exercised hard. I weighed this morning and saw a small loss from yesterday. I even ate three Clementines and a banana at midnight. Zero Points. This is just so cool. I can hardly wait for Saturday's weighin. I'm expecting great things from myself. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br /><br /><strong>The Big Climb</strong><br />I'll probably end a lot of posts talking about <a href="http://www.llswa.org/site/PageServer?pagename=BC_about">The Big Climb</a> in the next few months. I hope I can get some fellow bloggers to join me in doing The Big Climb. If you live in the Seattle area (or even if you don't), let me know if you're interested. I think it would a lot of fun to meet and do The Big Climb  together. Start training now!<br /><br />Also, I've set a weight loss goal for myself:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Lose 20 pounds in time for the Big Climb</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">March 20, 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Big Climb Goal weight:  158 pounds </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">15 weeks - 1.3 pounds per week</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I hope everyone is enjoying the new plan as much as me. Here's to a great day and a great week for all of us!</div><div style="text-align: center;">~~~~~~~~~</div><br />Which would you choose for the same Points?<br /><br /><strong>*Oroweat Sandwich Thin</strong> ingredients (not listed on their website!). Seriously, this stuff is disgusting.<br /><br />Whole wheat flour, <strong>unbleached enriched wheat flour [flour, malted barley flour, reduced iron, niacin, thiamin mononitrate (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2), folic acid]</strong>, water, <strong>cellulose fiber</strong>, wheat gluten, yeast, sugar, cracked wheat rye,<strong> polydextrose</strong>, salt, ground corn, canola and/or soybean oil, <strong>preservatives (calcium propionate, sorbic acid),</strong> grain vinegar,<strong> guar gum</strong>, cultured wheat flour, brown rice, oats, <strong>mono-glycerides</strong>, soybeans, triticale , barley, flaxseed, millet, citric acid, <strong>sodium stearoyl lactylate</strong>, <strong>sucralose<em> (note...sucralose is Splenda!)</em></strong>, soy lecithin.<br /><br /><strong>**Dave's Killer Bread</strong>, 21 Whole Grain ingredients (listed on his website). I know what every single one of these ingredients are without Googling them. <span style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><br />Organic whole wheat flour, organic cracked whole wheat, water, organic evaporated cane juice, grain mix (organic whole ground flaxseeds, organic whole flaxseeds, organic sunflower seeds, organic oats, organic pumpkin seeds, organic millet, organic rye, organic brown rice, organic triticale, organic barley, organic unhulled sesame seeds, organic black sesame seeds, organic amaranth, organic buckwheat, organic spelt, organic blue cornmeal, organic yellow corn, organic kamut, organic poppy seeds, organic quinoa, organic sorghum), organic wheat gluten, organic oat fiber, organic molasses, sea salt, yeast, organic cultured wheat.

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