4.5 weeks in...

...and I've learned a LOT.

• I always thought that we ate fairly healthy. We eat a fair amount of organic food, lots of vegetables and have even started to eat more vegetarian in the past year. However, I've been proved wrong, at least where fat and calories are concerned.
  
• My portions used to be gigantic!
• My stomach has shrunk considerably in the last 4 1/2 weeks
• Writing down everything you eat creates a disincentive to put just anything in your mouth
  
• I appreciate my food a lot more these days
• I forgot what being hungry for my food actually was until 4 1/2 weeks ago
  
• I have way more energy when I eat less food, which is counter-intuitive
• My husband is incredibly supportive, even though he would look malnourished if he lost any weight
• Annoyingly, my kids want to eat my food, particularly if I have methodically portioned it
• I really like how Weight Watchers allows you to budget your food -- you can eat whatever you want, you just have to save them up by eating healthier to account for it
• If I'm given an incentive to exercise (like the ability to eat more food), I will exercise consistently
• After I hit my goal weight and my subscription has ended, I think I'm going to try to eat well for most of the week and then not worry about it for 1 or 2 days out of the week

Overall, it's going well and I am really enjoying it, even though measuring out all of your food gets pretty old. I only have 5 more lbs until I hit my goal weight!