We have a woman in our group who does not follow the plan at all, doesn't count her syns, ignores healthy extras and just tries to eat free food. She ignores in particular the syns in alcohol and has a couple of takeaways a week. The rest of the time, she just tries to eat more free food. She ignores red and green days and eats all her meals with free food from both days.
Sometimes she looses a pound or two, sometimes she puts on a pound and sometimes she stays the same... but over a couple of months she's lost a stone or so and says she has another stone to go.
The consultant doesn't quite know what to do with her as she's quite open about what she does. She always says something like 'well, I don't recommend what you are doing to other people but it is obviously working for you'.
I don't actually know why she goes to SW as she doesn't follow it at all - maybe she just likes the idea of being weighed every week!
It's always funny to see her rolling her eyes whenever syn values or HEXs are brought up!
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