Hello all,
My name's Graham, and I'm just nicely returning to Slimming World.
I couldn't find the 'Newbie' section, but it would have been a bit false of me, anyway, to have tried to post in there given that I'm once did the diet before, succeeded, and then badly lapsed, and now I'm starting out on the long haul again of being (at least) 2st overweight, and in serious need if getting back in shape.
The main point of this post, then, is to try to just say 'hello' again and to try to find one or two 'fellow travellers' along the way. From past experience, I know that the Slimming World diet works, and am really, really helped a lot by the huge list of 'acceptable foods' and the ease of the system - even if I don't really get it right in many respects; my own main problem being the difficulty I have of working out and getting into my head the '1/3rd of a plate of this' and the 9/16ths of a plate' of that, and all 'offset at an angle of approximately 27degrees from the largest ingredient'...(I might be getting this a bit mixed up!)....
Anyway, I'm Graham (my real name, actually, so I'll give myself a house point for my bravery in that), and you are lots of lovely, friendly ladies* who are going to help me chart this minefield as best we can...
All the best for now, and I look forward to hearing back from someone (anyone?), in an effort to keep me on the straight and narrow (dieting wise, that is, I think I'm a lost cause in virtually every other respect!)...
* Apologies to any really switched-on feminists out there. You're obviously right in every respect, and I'm just a lost cause simply because I am a bloke...
My name's Graham, and I'm just nicely returning to Slimming World.
I couldn't find the 'Newbie' section, but it would have been a bit false of me, anyway, to have tried to post in there given that I'm once did the diet before, succeeded, and then badly lapsed, and now I'm starting out on the long haul again of being (at least) 2st overweight, and in serious need if getting back in shape.
The main point of this post, then, is to try to just say 'hello' again and to try to find one or two 'fellow travellers' along the way. From past experience, I know that the Slimming World diet works, and am really, really helped a lot by the huge list of 'acceptable foods' and the ease of the system - even if I don't really get it right in many respects; my own main problem being the difficulty I have of working out and getting into my head the '1/3rd of a plate of this' and the 9/16ths of a plate' of that, and all 'offset at an angle of approximately 27degrees from the largest ingredient'...(I might be getting this a bit mixed up!)....
Anyway, I'm Graham (my real name, actually, so I'll give myself a house point for my bravery in that), and you are lots of lovely, friendly ladies* who are going to help me chart this minefield as best we can...
All the best for now, and I look forward to hearing back from someone (anyone?), in an effort to keep me on the straight and narrow (dieting wise, that is, I think I'm a lost cause in virtually every other respect!)...
* Apologies to any really switched-on feminists out there. You're obviously right in every respect, and I'm just a lost cause simply because I am a bloke...