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Yes, she knows I've got the books out and am asking on a forum for advice. We discussed it yesterday evening and she was pleased I am learning about SW. I haven't shown her the forum responses but we are considering joining bodyoptimise.com. Does anyone have any experience of this?

We'll weigh the porridge to check portion size. Salad at lunch is prepared by their school kitchen. It consists of ham, cottage cheese, lettuce tomato etc.. I need to learn about A choices and B choices. Perhaps this 2004 book doesn't cover them, I can see free foods, healthy choices and syns.

I thought the first reply I did hadn't got posted so wrote it again and now both are there. Ah well. Yes there is golden syrup on the porridge, a minimal amount of fat/oil in the cooking.

Thank you all for you detailed replies. I am impressed and surprised by the number of detailed responses. As I work from home I do my share of cooking evening meals so I am to blame as well for not understanding how SW should be applied. What has been happening is alternating red and green days...

Well, I am quite overwhelmed by the amount and detail of the responses to my query (or was it a rant, sorry). Thank you all, I have learnt a great deal about SW in the last couple of days and am now much more informed and more able to support her. It seems that we both have some faulty ideas...

I'm glad it works for you She joined a group, got the books and stopped going to the meetings and tries applying it herself. I can understand that it is difficult to eat lettuce and steamed vegetables to excess but not so difficult to eat a lot of pasta, rice and potatoes. To lose a pound a...

My wife has been following SW for several years but the net loss is zero. She wants to lose weight but the marketing hype of SW is defeating her. The Food Optimising book says you can eat as much as you want of free foods, "you can fill even the biggest plate - and go back for seconds - and...