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WW or SW?

Marley, 29 July, 2009 at 10:24 Posted on Beauty & Wellbeing 0 3

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I've lost around 20lb since Christmas by doing ELMM. I've very much stagnated now and I think I need to do a structured diet to give myself a bit of a kick up the arse. I want to lose around 1.5 stone by this Christmas.

I've done both WW and SW in the past and have lost weight with both of them. I had issues with both though. With WW I started to get terribly obsessed with points and became a total diet bore. With SW I didn't like the over emphasis on things like quark, muller light and sweetner (this could be from my MIL who is a lifelong SW'er and eats loads of miller lights and sweetened quark)

I like to cook from scratch but I like to cook from scratch with nice things. I wouldn't for example want to make a cake out of branflakes so that I could eat 2 slices. I'd rather have half a slice of proper cake.

Can you do that with either diet? I really need to do something or else I shall remain porky forever. I'd really value some opinions from those who are doing these diets.

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Gryfon · 29 July, 2009 at 10:45
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I'm doing WW. No food is bad for you, you can eat whatever you like...you just have to remember to stay within your points! So if you want a slice of proper cake you can do but you need to work out where you can save points, like 0 point soup etc. I had a pecan and golden syrup pastry thing last week, was loooooooooovely ? Just had more salad and stuff at lunchtime and saved some points that way.

At the moment I'm having porridge for breakfast, 3 points and keeps me full till lunchtime. Then a big salad for lunch and for evening a WW recipe, recently I've done roasted tomato sauce with pasta, mexican beef tacos, chicken stirfry and roasted salmon which was lovely!
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Zooropa · 29 July, 2009 at 11:35
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I've done both ww and sw and am currently doing sw. ww was great until I got down to 22 points a day and then i found I was constantly hungry. I ended up cutting out all fruit just to save points and i started stagnating. I then moved to sw and it was great to be able to eat fruit again. I must admit I do eat a couple of muller lights a day but I refuse to give in to the call of sweetner.
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Marley · 29 July, 2009 at 13:15
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TORTY · 29 July, 2009 at 13:56
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Having done both in the past I have to say for me its WW all the way ( however my friend has just lost 2.5 stone on SW..)I have been doing it since 22 of jan 2009 and have lost 4 stone and 1/2 a lb.. only 3 lb to go until goal.. I eat "normal food".. just less of it..

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