Hello, can I join you?

[Snozzberry]

I've been round most of Minimins over the years but I've never poked my head round the healthy eating door before.

Basically I keep trying different plans, mostly this means switching between Slimming World, Weight Watchers and calorie counting using MFP, with the odd Slimpod chucked in for good measure. Yet after years of this (plus two children in the interim) I am still stubbornly stuck at 12st 13.

The problem is that I do well for a couple of weeks, then start to rebel against being on "a plan". This week I came to the realisation that I am paying SW a fiver a week to tell me basic common sense. Which I then ignore anyway because that part often brain that doesn't like being told what to do is rebelling.

So I am going to try for that basic common sense. I think my meals are generally healthy, it's just tweaking, cutting out the crappy snacking and not scoffing quite as much toast. And keeping up the running that I started in January.

After being on so many diets I'm not entirely sure what is healthy any more though, you know how it is - what's acceptable at WW is evil at SW etc. so I'm hoping to get some good tips here if you'll have me

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[Perpleo]

my tip is to find things that you like and then adapt them or have a smaller portion
i love mayonaise and sauces etc so i found the lighter than light option reallys helps me

think of it as a lifestyle change and not what you cant have but what you can and that should help your brain not to rebel as its getting things it wants if that makes sense =]

[SuperGroovy]

Basically I keep trying different plans, mostly this means switching between Slimming World, Weight Watchers and calorie counting using MFP, with the odd Slimpod chucked in for good measure. Yet after years of this (plus two children in the interim) I am still stubbornly stuck at 12st 13.

You're not supposed to just chuck the odd slimpod in. For it to work properly, you have to listen to it every night before sleep AND fill in your success journal, daily - for at least 21 days in a row, and then daily until you feel ready to move to a 'keeping weight off' slimpod. If you use it correctly, it will reprogram that part of your mind. But you don't use it with weight watchers or any other plan, because it's totally different and if you use it with a 'diet' you'll still feel like you're being told what to do and rebel. The point of a diet is following rules that go against what you'd do if the rules weren't there. The point of a slimpod is to change *what you want*, so you use it and then just eat what you want, when you want - and notice how what you want and how often you want it, changes. It requires patience, trust, and not focusing so much on food and losing weight and diets.

I think if you use the slimpod like it says, you would begin to eat healthier, naturally, without having to 'try' or feel like you're following 'rules' or a 'diet' or being told 'what to do'.

Good luck, whatever you choose though!

[cavegirl13]

I used Slimpod when I first started eating Primal and it helped me with cutting out the 'bad' foods that wasn't on the Primal list.

[Lisa123]

What is slim pod?

[cavegirl13]

Slimpods are unique voice recordings which help people achieve effective weight loss, whether it’s 5lbs or 5 stones and more. They can be bought as instant downloads or on CD. Unlike other methods of losing weight, with a Slimpod there are no diets, no calorie counting and no willpower required.

Slimpods have been developed by our Harley Street experts and use modern approaches to the science of unconscious persuasion to put you back in control of food again. Because it's like having your own personal mind coach, weight loss becomes simple and effortless.

[SuperGroovy]

Nice summary, cavegirl And this is the website: Thinking Slimmer, home of the unique Slimpod weight control method

[cavegirl13]

I found the Slimpod much much better than the gastric band hypnotherapy ones.I learnt how to control what and how much I was eating and not over eating so I was still having good food portions none of this half a sandwich and I'm full or all I could manage was 2 spoonfuls of something.You could have what you fancied without feeling guilty and you were still getting all the necessary vitamins etc by eating properly.

Thats how it worked for me and I am happy with the result.