I saw my doctor yesterday (had to pick a new one, love the one I chose) and we ran through my personal and family medical histories, assessing the risk factors to my health given those things. She said she definitely wanted me on some form of structured weight loss program. She seemed pretty impressed that I had brought a menu plan with me, as well as an article about healthy diets for insulin resistance (I'm insulin resistant, which is different than diabetes but can lead to it).

What I brought with me was the H.O.W. food plan. It's incredibly rigid. It's completely black and white, there are no nebulous gray areas of "well, it's close enough to my food plan to be okay..." It's not an avenue I had wanted to go down- the cutting out sugar and flour- but I don't have to do it forever. I'm committing to it for now, one day at a time.

I am modifying 2 things, which I'm totally not supposed to do unless it's because my doctor says to, but too bad. And my doctor did suggest one of the two changes I made. I love milk, and I drink 1%. She said that for now she doesn't think I need to limit my milk intake, and she doesn't want me drinking it in lieu of other proteins. She said the extra calories won't hurt what I'm trying to do, because I do have so far to go. I'm also not giving up my splash of half n half in my coffee and tea. I'll switch to fat free, and find a sweetener that doesn't contain sugar, but coffee and tea are not binge threats for me. (This does not include foofoo coffee drinks from Starbucks. Just my one cup of drip coffee at the office in the mornings.)

I've only been doing it for 4 meals (tecnically 3, because dinner last night wasn't plan based, though I was more careful than I'd normally be), and it's HARD. I know there are going to be times when it's going to feel like I can't do it (like right now). But I can.