Piet Check-In – 2 Weeks, 4 lbs.

As some of you may remember, I’m on a “piet“.

My piet program consists of ONLY eating pie as a dessert and saying “no thanks” to any inferior sweets, such as cake.

I’ve stuck to the program pretty strictly, abiding by the rules I set forth in my initial piet post.

Results:
My weight has dropped from 170 lbs. on Sunday, March 28  to 166 lbs. as of Sunday, April 11.

The only time I cheated was to try a few bites of the delicious and unique desserts offered at Pitxi, a great new restaurant in North Portland. Oh, and I sort of cheated by drinking a couple super-sweet margaritas.

Is it working?
Well, it’s still early in this long-term experiment. But, I do feel the piet plan is helping with my weight.

I haven’t been exercising on a regular basis because my normal tennis partner has been SLACKING big-time. He comes up with terrible excuses like “business trips”, and “sickness”, and “weather”. Anyways, the point is, I’m not losing weight because I’m working out. Aside from yard work and work around the house, not a whole lot of physical activity went on these past few weeks.

Also, my normal eating habits have not changed, aside from the change in dessert habits. I still eat like crap, for the most part. Nacho night, pizza, burgers, tacos, beer… yeah… maybe I should work on that stuff next – baby steps, though.

Why it might work
I recently saw this statistic and it made me think about how much sugar we eat compared to past generations:

• - In 1700, the average person consumed about 4 pounds of sugar per year.
• - In 1800, the average person consumed about 18 pounds of sugar per year.
• - In 1900, individual consumption had risen to 90 pounds of sugar per year.
• - In 2009, more than 50 percent of all Americans consume one-half pound of sugar PER DAY—translating to a whopping 180 pounds of sugar per year!

So, if that’s true, I’m hoping that this will at least help me lower the amount of sugar I take in, even though I probably still eat a lot via pie and other processed foods.

Why it might not work
I’m a little worried that I overcompensate. Sometimes I find myself thinking, “Go ahead and order the value meal, you aren’t eating as much sweets as you used to, so it’s cool.”  So, if I give in to that line of thinking too often, I might not see such good results.