Hi - I've recently joined sw online and following the EE plan however when I input my food diary into my fitness pal it's telling me I'm consuming too few calories and this can slow down weight loss. I'm new and a bit useless at counting calories (hence why I've joined sw!!) but I have fruit and yoghurt for breakfast or cereal, salad with chicken at lunch and then something like a homemade curry or pasta for dinner. I keep the syns to about 5 or under a day which is 0.5 for my chicken as it's flavoured and a couple for my dressing and a rice cake if I'm peckish and I snack on fruit. I don't know what I'm doing wrong? Is there something else I should be adding in?
My first suggestion would be start at 10 Syns at least, I'm not sure how much you're looking to lose, but if you find yourself getting stuck later on you'll have nothing to lower. They're there for a reason, use them, they don't have to be for crisps or chocolate etc, you can use them in your meals, butter in mash, a bit of oil etc.
Snack if you need to, you can use syns, free or super free for this, don't let yourself go hungry, it's part of the plan that you eat when you need to eat, so if you need something in between, have it - but have a little of something you fancy if you need to.
Also, remember the plan stands on it's own, you can track calories out of curiosity, but they aren't designed to go together.
Maybe post a diary so we can see what you're eating, it's so much easier to help people out when you know what they're doing!
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