I joined SW 13 weeks ago. I was never a fat bloke but having an issue with my boy (11 year old Roy) getting on the chubby side, we decided the only way to get him to lose weight is joining a club together.
The SW down in Hendon was highly recommended (Dyanne is a brilliant consultant) and so we both joined the SW party.
Roy is having the expected good and bad weeks but he shed 9 pounds so far... so the effort paid off.
I started at 13 st 7 and decided to drop the odd weight gained in 20 years of good married life...
I set my target at 11 st 10 which I reached after 10 weeks (plenty of Slimmer of the week awards). I found SW original just worked wonders for me.
I was sticking like a glue to the book and found in most weeks that I ended the week with no more than 20-30 syns consumed for the entire week.
Luckily I am one of those people that don’t find food that exciting – give me a good movie and I’ll take it over dinner at the Ritz any day!
My main reason to gaining any weight over the years was mainly late night snacking – I tend to sleep 4-5 hour a night do to avid movie consumption (used to be accompanied with anything left in the fridge). This habit needless to say was replaced with “only fruit allowed after dinner” rule.
The wife is always a healthy food cook so sticking to chicken/fish and salad was simple. I traded the daily cookies/cake with the odd Tesco light choice bar and ate apples like crazy (10+ per day).
Now...the only problem now is how to stop!
Once I reached my target I swapped to nice & easy days and I eat everything that is not fatty, I added extra A & B choice and I am still losing weight.
I went to several dinners (my Birthday was December 8th) and downed everything including wine and desert and my body seem to ignore it.
This week I clocked 11 st 6 and fell below my target (getting over 2st award and another Slimmer of the week which I didn’t want).
I had to adjust the target by ½ st to 11st 3 as it feels my body wants to stop lower than my intended target (I’m 5f 8’’ tall).
So the question is to the target members out there...
How do you balance, once you reached target, SW diet habit in order to stick to target.
It may be a “rich men” problem in this forum (I can surely give you all the tips that worked for me) but hope you don’t mind.
(too skinny) Sam
p.s. They never tell you when you start the diet that you feel COLD once you shed your “protection” layer!
So now I have to move about to get warm... that gets me even more skinny. Darn, can’t win!
The SW down in Hendon was highly recommended (Dyanne is a brilliant consultant) and so we both joined the SW party.
Roy is having the expected good and bad weeks but he shed 9 pounds so far... so the effort paid off.
I started at 13 st 7 and decided to drop the odd weight gained in 20 years of good married life...
I set my target at 11 st 10 which I reached after 10 weeks (plenty of Slimmer of the week awards). I found SW original just worked wonders for me.
I was sticking like a glue to the book and found in most weeks that I ended the week with no more than 20-30 syns consumed for the entire week.
Luckily I am one of those people that don’t find food that exciting – give me a good movie and I’ll take it over dinner at the Ritz any day!
My main reason to gaining any weight over the years was mainly late night snacking – I tend to sleep 4-5 hour a night do to avid movie consumption (used to be accompanied with anything left in the fridge). This habit needless to say was replaced with “only fruit allowed after dinner” rule.
The wife is always a healthy food cook so sticking to chicken/fish and salad was simple. I traded the daily cookies/cake with the odd Tesco light choice bar and ate apples like crazy (10+ per day).
Now...the only problem now is how to stop!
Once I reached my target I swapped to nice & easy days and I eat everything that is not fatty, I added extra A & B choice and I am still losing weight.
I went to several dinners (my Birthday was December 8th) and downed everything including wine and desert and my body seem to ignore it.
This week I clocked 11 st 6 and fell below my target (getting over 2st award and another Slimmer of the week which I didn’t want).
I had to adjust the target by ½ st to 11st 3 as it feels my body wants to stop lower than my intended target (I’m 5f 8’’ tall).
So the question is to the target members out there...
How do you balance, once you reached target, SW diet habit in order to stick to target.
It may be a “rich men” problem in this forum (I can surely give you all the tips that worked for me) but hope you don’t mind.
(too skinny) Sam
p.s. They never tell you when you start the diet that you feel COLD once you shed your “protection” layer!
So now I have to move about to get warm... that gets me even more skinny. Darn, can’t win!
