Mummoth
Silver Member
Well it's 36 weeks from today until Christmas day. In those 36 weeks, if I lose an average of 2lbs a week I will be at target. Now that would be something. I'd be the lowest weight I've been in 27 years.
So, to the diet bit: although I do follow the SW diet, I chop and change to calorie counting as & when it suits me. For example last Sunday, went out to dinner. Told myself I WILL NOT HAVE DESSERT! Ate a lovely roast meal & the dessert trolley was calling to me. Gave it an hour & then buckled & ordered chocolate fudge gateau. With ice cream. So of course it must have had about 100 syns in with the dinner, so for that day I changed to calorie counting. I'd had yoghurt & fruit for breakfast, so that was light. I skipped tea & painted the bathroom instead, when I got hungry. Then made myself an Options hot choc & went to bed. At WI the following Weds I'd lost 2.5lbs.
If I stick to the SW diet 24/7, week in week out I get bored. Same old food, if I fancy a bag of crisps that's half a day's syns etc etc. So chopping & changing works for me. I'm not recommending it by the way, it might not work for someone else. And it might stop working for me one day. I hope not. I do whole days at either one or the other though.
See with last Sunday's dinner, if I was 100% doing SW, I'd have felt guilty, bad etc. I'd have tried (& probably failed) to make the syns up and may have even given up counting syns for the rest of the week. By changing to calorie counting for that day (and yes, I know I was hungry for the evening but that's my choice & a sacrifice I need to make if I seriously want to lose weight) I did ok.
So, to the diet bit: although I do follow the SW diet, I chop and change to calorie counting as & when it suits me. For example last Sunday, went out to dinner. Told myself I WILL NOT HAVE DESSERT! Ate a lovely roast meal & the dessert trolley was calling to me. Gave it an hour & then buckled & ordered chocolate fudge gateau. With ice cream. So of course it must have had about 100 syns in with the dinner, so for that day I changed to calorie counting. I'd had yoghurt & fruit for breakfast, so that was light. I skipped tea & painted the bathroom instead, when I got hungry. Then made myself an Options hot choc & went to bed. At WI the following Weds I'd lost 2.5lbs.
If I stick to the SW diet 24/7, week in week out I get bored. Same old food, if I fancy a bag of crisps that's half a day's syns etc etc. So chopping & changing works for me. I'm not recommending it by the way, it might not work for someone else. And it might stop working for me one day. I hope not. I do whole days at either one or the other though.
See with last Sunday's dinner, if I was 100% doing SW, I'd have felt guilty, bad etc. I'd have tried (& probably failed) to make the syns up and may have even given up counting syns for the rest of the week. By changing to calorie counting for that day (and yes, I know I was hungry for the evening but that's my choice & a sacrifice I need to make if I seriously want to lose weight) I did ok.