WW Week 11

Well, something worked! When I weighed in this past Monday evening at Weight Watchers, I was FINALLY down to 198! That's a 3.0 pound loss this week! I'm definitely realizing that this carb-cutting thing is the way to go.

The guys are working on a new portion of the pool deck at Mom's. Today I went up with them to get started with the post hole digging. When they ran to Longbottom & Hardsaw's to pick up lumber, I went to Mom's house to wait for them. I happened to see a couple of books that she's had for probably over a year, sitting on a table by the door. One is "Bottom Line's Super Foods Rx" and the other is "Food Cures: Breakthrough Nutritional Prescriptions for Everything from Colds to Cancer" by Reader's Digest.

I've been scanning the Reader's Digest book; especially the sections on Smart Carbs and Insulin Resistance, and so far it says pretty much the same thing that the Carbohydrate Addict's book said. It talks about the Glycemic Index (GI); pure glucose has a GI of 100, so the closer to 100 the GI number is, the more it raises blood sugar. Naturally, the lower GI foods don't cause spikes in blood sugar. Low GI foods are those with GI numbers of 55 and below. Anyway, there is a good list of GI values for LOTS of food to be found here. You can also google "glycemic index" and find many more.

I'm learning....