spottydoris
Determined to succeed!
Hi everyone!
I joined Slimming World ooh - 2/3 years ago...? I lasted a few weeks and then gave up because I didn't lose any weight/started putting it on. I think I must have been eating the wrong stuff... I dunno... I found the system really confusing - the free foods, the superfree foods, the hex's, the syns... I just couldn't get my head around it. The diet really haunted me - you know, 'the one that got away'... I hated that I couldn't make it work for me!! I hate failing at stuff, lol.
Over the last 6 months I have been counting calories and trying to be good but don't think I've been eating the right foods. Equal calories of junk vs health food really isn't the same! As I am now used to weighing and measuring, I am thinking that my head is in a better place to revisit SW... I have all the books, but am not going to join a class (not yet anyway)... so I'm turning to you lovely lot to be my support network. Friends of mine that have been successful on a diet are usually SW followers - so there must be something in it!
I am not too sure whether or not to try green or red... I am thinking red because I know that low carb diets work for me... green scares me to death (pasta is evil, surely!?!) and the idea of EE just confuses me - surely it flies in the face of food combining!? Reckless EE...
I am going to go shopping later and stock up on what I'll need for my hex's etc. Any tips on what I should buy that I can't do without?
How many Syns should I be having? The book says 5-15... should I aim for 10, or does it depend on how much weight we have to lose? Does it matter if I save my Syns til the evening and have some naughties (ice lolly/choc etc), or is it better to use Syns sparingly throughout the day on 'healthy' stuff - weight loss wise?
Looking forward to getting started and putting my SW demon to rest once and for all...
Spottydoris xxx
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I joined Slimming World ooh - 2/3 years ago...? I lasted a few weeks and then gave up because I didn't lose any weight/started putting it on. I think I must have been eating the wrong stuff... I dunno... I found the system really confusing - the free foods, the superfree foods, the hex's, the syns... I just couldn't get my head around it. The diet really haunted me - you know, 'the one that got away'... I hated that I couldn't make it work for me!! I hate failing at stuff, lol.
Over the last 6 months I have been counting calories and trying to be good but don't think I've been eating the right foods. Equal calories of junk vs health food really isn't the same! As I am now used to weighing and measuring, I am thinking that my head is in a better place to revisit SW... I have all the books, but am not going to join a class (not yet anyway)... so I'm turning to you lovely lot to be my support network. Friends of mine that have been successful on a diet are usually SW followers - so there must be something in it!
I am not too sure whether or not to try green or red... I am thinking red because I know that low carb diets work for me... green scares me to death (pasta is evil, surely!?!) and the idea of EE just confuses me - surely it flies in the face of food combining!? Reckless EE...
I am going to go shopping later and stock up on what I'll need for my hex's etc. Any tips on what I should buy that I can't do without?
How many Syns should I be having? The book says 5-15... should I aim for 10, or does it depend on how much weight we have to lose? Does it matter if I save my Syns til the evening and have some naughties (ice lolly/choc etc), or is it better to use Syns sparingly throughout the day on 'healthy' stuff - weight loss wise?
Looking forward to getting started and putting my SW demon to rest once and for all...
Spottydoris xxx
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