Speaking to Lorny on another forum gave me the kickstart I needed and started weight watchers. thanks for your brill advice Lorny - wish i could help you out the same too, star!
Ah thank you! I know you are going to be a big help to me, you've already got me on a big motivation to stick to plan for two days!
I did low cal diet back in 2001, lost 1 1/2 stone then fell pg! I was tiny back then too lol
After my ds I did Slim fast, worked great, lost all the baby weight, then went back to stuffing my face
Having dd (now 6) I then followed Sw, lost around 11lb but felt really restricted around the family, I loved red days, and would eat a whole pack of ham because I could lol! Then hubby worked away for 2 years
Joined MM back in Dec 08, started on CD, was the hardest yet easiest diet in the world to me, but I hated the not eating, when I started to eat again I ate big time
Sigh So here I am again, 11 weeks into WW. BUT I honestly feel for the first time I am in control, because I can eat ANYTHING as long as I count the point IYSWIM. I can plan meals around the whole family, and I am enjoying food again rather than having huge plates full of food, I am thinking about my husband and kids, what good would a big plate of creamy pasta do them? So now we make our own sauce, and have a large salad
Sorry I have gone off on one lol Even when I got married I was 9st2lb, and felt fat as my sisters were both 7st I guess it has always been there lol! NOw look at me, trying to claw into the 11st's
Sorry but hey feeling pants tonight I even know each weight I got to too!
I am a relative newcomer to ww having avoided it for so long as I thought it was about eating tiny portions of rabbit food - my only other experience of it was my sister doing it when I was young and she seemed to live on 3 mars bars a day and little else!!!! - I have no idea how that worked for her!! LoL!
Anyway I digress....I lost over 7 stones on Atkins in 2003 my first ever diet...pretty impressive although I do remember fasting for up to a week at a time when my weight loss stalled. Taught me nothing about eating normally as I lived on as close to zero carbs as I could get, and put it all back on over the next 12 months. I have also done Lipotrim and the Cambridge Diet, which worked for as long as I could stick to it ( 3 weeks max) Idiot proof diet, slim fast, cabbage soup, eat fat get thin, GI, GL and Slimming World - which saw me pigging out on whole packets of pasta or 2 platefuls of sw 'chips' mushy peas etc etc each evening( well they did say as much as I liked?!?!?) I was actually surprised I wasnt losing weight.....
So here I am on WW, I am taking the slow and steady route and amazed myself the other day when someone bought my favourite Krispy Kreme doughnuts in to work and I really really wanted one...so I jumped onto e source, worked out the points and worked it into my day, no binging 'cos I had broken my diet' necessary and still had a loss that week. I feel Im learning about how to eat sensibly without any silly restrictions and its starting to become second nature.....Its WW all the way for me now!!!!
I have done ww only for alot of years and for me personallly i find it almost impossible to have self control on it and eat healhty food, i abused it and binged and just ate rubbish and 0 point meals.
MY weigh losws stopped and im trying SW, my first 2 weeks i had tiny gains (a pound in total) but my diet is soo much better, so now i am combineing the to together and hoping i have found whats going to work for me.