Re: Slimming World--anyone tried it ?
Originally Posted by
Flowerpower
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Realist ... I pay £4.65 to attend group and some months buy a magazine which costs me £1.95 ....... so they're hardly making a fortune from me. I don't have to buy any other books or special foods at all.
If only it was all as easy as you are making out! You keep going over and over the same points but you don't listen to anybody else's.
Why are GPs now prescribing SW sessions if they're not effective as you claim?
Because they're probably making money off of it. It's all one big conspiracy, ya know
When I was at my highest weight (16 stone) I decided I'd had enough. I didn't go on a diet, I didn't join any slimming clubs, I didn't waste money on weight loss products - I did it all on my own with support from me, myself and I. And that's all. I joined a couple of websites where I could get advice and ideas for new meals (because I completely changed the way I ate, but I did it
gradually, I didn't change things overnight) and talk to other men and women who were also going through the slim-down process and I also started a food log. I logged (and still do) everything I ate and it counted calories for me, as well as fat, carbohydrates and nutrients I was getting from food.
I lost 6 stone. All by my little ole' self. I didn't think I could do it, but I did. And I didn't give up favorite treats, I didn't cut out all those 'demonized' foods like potatoes, bread, pasta, or even pizza and fried chicken. I still ate my favorite 'sinful treats', it's just I ate them in extreme moderation. I didn't believe in deprivation. Because if I'd deprive myself, I'd eventually cave and eat a restricted food, then throw in the towel and consider the whole thing
mission failed.
That's how people fail on diets and new eating plans. They deprive themselves. Then one night they're tempted and eat that food they told themselves they'll have to live without and whammo, the whole thing is ruined. Then they capture the "all or nothing" attitude and say "Well, I've already screwed it up, may as well go for broke" and eat the refrigerator. Then the guilt sets in. They've ruined everything, they've completely undone all the good they've accomplished. Or so they think. Of course it's not true because one bad day isn't going to ruin it all, but this is what they believe. So they give up altogether instead of getting back on their feet, brushing themselves off and saying "Okay, so I had a weak moment, we all do. Tomorrow we'll get back on it."
And you have to stick with that. Because many people don't. They never really lose that 'failure' mindset and everything goes right out the window. Poof, all gone, bye-bye.
I've been down that road too many times. So I decided to allow myself my favorite treats,
once in a while. If I know in the back of my mind that I
don't have to give up the foods I love that aren't particularly good for me and maybe at the end of the week I can have some pizza or a veggie sub or maybe even a couple of items from my favorite fast food place, that's what keeps me sane. It keeps me going. Never again will I go the deprivation route. It doesn't work. And neither do diets. Diets are a temporary solution. If you want permanent results, you not only have to change the way you eat, you have to change the way you think.
I've been on many weight loss boards over the years and this group here on this board, in my opinion, is the most reasonable and logical. Some of the boards I've been on, omg, they were all about trying crazy diets because they had an outfit they needed to lose 10 pounds in one week for and some of them were pro-ana, i.e. promoting starvation and anorexia. It was awful. If you starve the body, you starve your mind and your soul and everything else as well, because you end up a shell of a human being. Believe me, I've been down that road too when I was young. And it was heartbreaking to see so many women (from teenagers to women in their 30's and 40's) come onto those boards and say things like, "I'll teach you how to become anorexic!"
Where am I going with all of this? I guess I just want to say thanks to all of you that I talk to here about weight, etc, because at least you have heads on your shoulders. You do things the way you need to do them. As an odd, but old phrase my grandmother used to say, "You are the only you that you've got."
And about Realist, although his thoughts and opinions may seem a tad extreme to some, in a lot of ways and about a lot of things, if you really look at what he's trying to say, he's right. I don't mean about the ladies here who like to join support groups, etc. Again, you do for you whatever works. I mean facts about food and diets, etc. Some may not agree with everything he says, but he means well. At least that's what I think.
Enough rambling for now