The Fast Food Diet

Did everyone see that girl on those taco bell commercials?  She's preaching about how she lost weight while eating off their "fresco" menu?  Well, I think the topic is definitely worth discussing and the diet strategy is not a bad one!  When I first started Weight Watchers (WW), for me it was a 2 part system.  Part 1 was eating better at home and Part 2 - restricting all the crap I ate now.  At the time I was a 21 year old college student.  Fast food was pretty much my fortay.  Luckily for me I discovered this website by week 2, DWLZ.com (Dottie's weight loss zone).  If you haven't met or heard about Dottie, go check out her full story on the site.  I used Dottie's daily as a tool in molding the way I ate.  For me, the most impacting part of the site was the knowledge you gain on the things like the Chili's "awesome blossom"being 70 points.  =O  For me, there is no ifs ands or butts about it - NOTHING is worth that much calories and fat grams (or points!) - not to mention what all that salt will do to your heart!  If you are not familiar with the WW system, they work with a points scale where all food has its own assigned points and I was allowed like 22 a day.  So 70 points for an appetizer?  I don't care how many people are sharing it - I need NONE of that horrible mess.  So I say go check out the site and find yourself a nice list of things you can eat.  (and take notice of the things you should BAN) In college I made myself a one page cheat sheat (both sides) of every fast food place in the vicinity.  Nothing over 10 points even made it onto the list, which means it never made it in my belly!  After a few months, I didn't have to use the list and it started to become mechanical to me.  And still is.

** when you go to Dottie's site you want to look for the restaurants link at the top, then scroll down to select from the alpha letters