pizzle84

Iv been on a severe diet this year where i lost 3 stone in 12 weeks. It was great until i started eating again and i put a stone back on in 2 weeks, because of this i decided to try SW. However i just dont see how being told you can eat as much as you like (apart from the stuff you weigh) and having breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks can help you loose weight! It obviously does work though but how?

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Start: 15st 11lb
Current: 15st 4lb
week 1 -3.5lb
week 2 -1lb
week 3 -0.5lb
week 4 +1lb
week 5 +3lb (xmas week)
week 6 +1.5lb
week 7 -8.5lb (i was ill thought)
week 8 + 1.5lb
week 9 sts


1st Goal: Lose 7lbs 12.01.2010 (ill)
2nd Goal: Lose 1 stone by end of march
3rd Goal: Lose 1.5 stone
4th Goal: Lose 2 stone
5th Goal: Get into size 14 jeans
6th Goal: Lose 5 stone for Oz

jaylou

There's a load of blurb behind it, filling up on satisfying foods etc and restricting the high density stuff like bread and cereal and sweet things.
The thing with SW is to trust in it. It does work.
Read the FAQ's bit at the top in the stickys, there's lots of info in there.
Give it a go, enjoy it and reap the rewards!!

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pizzle84

Im sceptical but i will try. Cheers

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Start: 15st 11lb
Current: 15st 4lb
week 1 -3.5lb
week 2 -1lb
week 3 -0.5lb
week 4 +1lb
week 5 +3lb (xmas week)
week 6 +1.5lb
week 7 -8.5lb (i was ill thought)
week 8 + 1.5lb
week 9 sts


1st Goal: Lose 7lbs 12.01.2010 (ill)
2nd Goal: Lose 1 stone by end of march
3rd Goal: Lose 1.5 stone
4th Goal: Lose 2 stone
5th Goal: Get into size 14 jeans
6th Goal: Lose 5 stone for Oz

Lindyxx

It does work and I dont care how, best diet I have ever been on, actually dont even like to call it a diet, cos certainly doesnt feel like one, Id say its more of a change of lifestyle and healthy eating

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Start weight - 15 stone 2½lbs
Week 1 -4½lbs loss
Week 2 -1½lb loss
Week 3 -2½lbs loss
Week 4 -3½lbs loss
Week 5 -1lb loss
Week 6 -4lbs loss
Week 7 -1½lbs loss
Week 8 -2lbs loss
Week 9 +1lb gain
Week 10 -4lbs loss
Week 11 +1lb gain
Week 12 -1lb loss
Week 13 -1½lb loss
Week 14 -3lbs loss
Week 15 -2lbs loss

Brightonrosie

If you eat lots of the free foods on the day of your choice you will be surprised how full you feel. xx

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ddrgirl4eva

basically it limits your fat content! so less fat = fat burning from your body! no magical formula! just common sense! took me ages to get my head around it but it does work!! i promise! i have lost nearly two stone! i have gone from being overweight to a healthy bmi! am so happy! i love this diet! can eat loads as long as it is the right stuff! xx

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Alcoholiday

That's the problem with fad diets, you can lose the weight quickly but as soon as you come off the diet all the weight goes straight back on. This is because you haven't been taught the correct way to eat. SW isn't a diet as such, it's a healthy way of life, it teaches you how to eat healthily for the rest of your life. You don't come off the diet because you're not on one.

1lb per week loss is completely acceptable with SW as this is a maintained loss and as you will always be eating healthily you will easily be able to keep it off.

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Lauripop

Our consultant doesn't let us use the 'D' word... it's banned lol

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Lonestitcher

My mum said that she couldn't see how it works either. I just told her to stop looking!!! Now she can look all she wants - at the weight dropping off, week after week!!!!!

But seriously, reasons it works:

Limits high fat / high sugar foods - Syns available.
Limits cereals / breads - HEX b's available
Limits dairy intake - HEX a's available

By encouraging you to fill up on 'free food' ie food that makes you feel fuller, for not too high an amount of calories. This also gets you out of the 'binge' mentality as you are never 'absolutely STARVING' when it comes to meals.

Basically, it's a low fat/low sugar/reduced calorie diet, that makes you eat healthily, enjoy a range of foods and never feel deprived. ie. Makes you eat like a 'NORMAL' person.

Having said all that, usually I don't think about it and just enjoy the rewards !!!!!!

Julianne_julz

I don't know/care how it works, all I know is 31.5lbs doesn't lie! Lol. It's gone somewhere and I've been following sw, therefore, SW=works!! Xx

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jaylou

Oh and it's the only "diet" where I've got to a target and maintained that weight loss so it still works for me!!

Please don't be sceptical. If you don't think it will work then you may not follow it 100% - just trust it in, do what it says in the books and it will work. Don't think that you can't eat the foods it says you can because you can!

One last word of advice, forget any other diet you have been on, forget everything you've ever been told about dieting, this is so different :-)

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Mumoftwo

This week at my meeting the consultant had some visuals which helped show us how the plan works. She showed a meal of steak and kidney pie, mushy peas and chips, (which I'm sure many of us have enjoyed pre sw). She then showed us pictures of three sw meals, a full english breakfast, jacket potato with egg and ham salad and curry and rice. The three sw meals contained the same calorific value as the one pre plan meal. Thats how it works, high density low fat/calorie meals that keep you full and stop you from picking at the bad stuff

charlottegrace1

Eat what you want and as much as you want according to the plan your following, just don't eat because you can. Listen to your body as to whether it is actually hungry and stop when full. Thats the secret.

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Lost my 1/2 stone sticker this week - target - to get it back next week. (Missed it by 0.1lb )

2010 progress lost 6.9lb

Valentines challenge to loose 10lb lost 6.9lb 3.1lb to go

120 day challenge to loose 15lb start date 19/01/10 - end date 21/04/10
23/01/10 lost 2.9lb 12.1lb left
30/01/10 gained 3.3lb 15.4lb left
06/02/10 lost 0.9lb 14.5lb left

week 5 06/02/10 - 0.9lb

1st goal loose 5lb done 09/01/10
2nd goal loose 5lb
3rd goal loose 4lb
4th goal to have less than 100lb to loose

January loss 6lb
February loss 0.9lb
March loss
April loss
May loss
June loss
July loss
August loss
September loss
October loss
November loss
December loss

Total to loose 114.4lb - total left 107.5lbs

judimac

I agree with all the above. We've all been thro this stage. Just suspend your belief and watch the weight roll off!

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2009 -32.5lbs

NEW start 3/2/10.

TeresaTT

Sometimes I just think of this diet as working by magic. I'm enjoying my food far too much to have lost so much weight.

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