Weightwatchers

[Lucy]

I don't think any kind of restriction or guilt about pleasure should be tolerated.

Eat whatever you want.

Eat at a quarter of the pace, you normally eat.

Concentrate fully on what you eat, take in the aroma, the look and how much you are eating.

Don't eat while watching telly, reading or typing.

Chew everything really well.

Be relaxed, enjoy every mouthful.

Have a glass of wine with your meal when you can.

Wait twenty minutes before eating more.

[wendigo100]

It doesn't just stink when you're cooking it... the farts it produces are remarkable.

A clever human defence against the Giant Alien Lizard invasion.

[BrilloPad]

Slimming world has been very successful for me

Slimming world has been very successful for me.

I always used to lose weight by exercise - but I had a bad back. So I put on weight - which made back worse...

Slimming world broke the cycle - I lost enough weight to start excercising. And the weight gain was not root cause of bad back - root problem was bottom 2 discs are completely knackered - by too much excercise(of wrong type).

On Slimming world you are encouraged to eat as much as you can of certain foods. gr8 for peopole lkike me who are ravenous!

[MrsGoof]

Weightwatchers et al are business that are funded by failure!

[IR35 Avoider]

Weight-watchers points system help me lose nearly 3 stone, though I'm sure using a non-proprietary measure (e.g. calories?) would have worked as well if not better.

"The guy with the bowtie" quotes excellent advice, but my feeling is that you do also actually have to do calorie-counting for a few months just to educate yourself about what you can and can't eat, lose bad habits and gain good one's. For example, I know I should never allow food in the house that can be eaten without being cooked. Fruit is OK, but if bread is around I'll eat to much of it.

[~Craig~]

Weight-watchers points system help me lose nearly 3 stone, though I'm sure using a non-proprietary measure (e.g. calories?) would have worked as well if not better.

"The guy with the bowtie" quotes excellent advice, but my feeling is that you do also actually have to do calorie-counting for a few months just to educate yourself about what you can and can't eat, lose bad habits and gain good one's. For example, I know I should never allow food in the house that can be eaten without being cooked. Fruit is OK, but if bread is around I'll eat to much of it.

do you all "feel better in yourself?"

[SallyAnne]

Just be fat and happy man

[hyperD]

The other thing about weightwatchers and dieting in general is the

"well, I've been very good all week eating celery so I'll treat myself to a large family bucket of Kentucky fried lips 'n' arseholes..."

syndrome. As you diet (without exercising - and no, touching your toes or walking to the fridge doesn't count) your metabolism slows making it more difficult to lose weight at the same initial rate. Wolfing down a big meal at the end of the week puts on considerable more weight than if you had been eating sensibly and consistently.

Also why those people who go on the Atkins diet of reverse ketosis lose weight quickly and then end up twice as fat when they come off it and start downing the family buckets again.

[andy]

Just eat less
its that simple

[DimPrawn]

You're all a bunch of fat feckers by the sounds of it!

What happened to all the skinny computer nerds?

Who has time to eat when there is coding to be done?!!?