MSE Newborn to 1 year Baby Club 1

Sammie_03

Has anyone tried the weight watchers diet? Noah will be 1 next month and I still look pregnant at times! :eek: thinking of having a weight watchers meal for dinner and fruit/slim fast shakes in the day? Hmm maybe it's a slim fast diet ill be doing then? I don't know? I just want to be thin :think:
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Gillyx

I think Slim Fast is Shakes for Breakfast and Lunch and then a balanced main meal for dinner.

WW is a points system so every food has points and then you can have so many a day

I'm thinking about booking a holiday so I really need to get back onto a diet if I'm thinking about bearing my body in a bikini! :eek:

Sammie_03

So if I had a shake for breakfast and lunch and a weight watchers ready meal for dinner do you think that would work?

Where you looking at going on holiday?
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fluffnutter

What about that 5/2 diet? It seems really popular at the moment and gets good results. Plus it's unbelievably easy. Eat normally five days a week and have just 500 calories on the other two. Your 'fast' days can be whenever you want but not two in a row.

My dad's doing it. It's working but then I always think men find it easier to lose weight anyway...

Gillyx

Probably but the WW meals are tiny, I'd be starving and it's the type of diet the minute you start eating normally again even just 3 meals a day, the weight goes back on I'd say.

WW and Slimming World are probably the best for sustained weight loss

I don't know anywhere really probably Baleric or Canary Islands just somewhere with sun and the beach x

fluffnutter

Sammie_03 wrote: »

So if I had a shake for breakfast and lunch and a weight watchers ready meal for dinner do you think that would work?
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Yes, but it would be incredibly low calorie. A slimfast shake is 220 cals, a weightwatchers dinner maybe 350? You'd not be clearing 800 calories. That's not enough if you're doing it every day.

As soon as you swapped your shakes for meals again, you'd pile it all back on. Plus some probably.

Sammie_03

Thanks ladies, I will look into the diet you mentioned fluff also just found on their website there is a weekly weight watchers meeting down the road from me every Thursday at 6pm. I could go tonight and there is a no joining fee + 1st session free voucher I can print off.
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fluffnutter

If you want the weight to stay off, Sammie, the only way to do that is to change your eating habits for good. I know it's a cliche but it's a message that sometimes gets lost, because some diets are really effective in the short term.

If you fast for 2 days a week, you'll lose weight. If you drink nothing but slim fast shakes you'll lose weight. The problem is keeping it off once you 'end your diet'. And that's the problem with diets - they always end. So you always put the weight back on. Always.

Sammie_03

fluffnutter wrote: »

If you want the weight to stay off, Sammie, the only way to do that is to change your eating habits for good. I know it's a cliche but it's a message that sometimes gets lost, because some diets are really effective in the short term.

If you fast for 2 days a week, you'll lose weight. If you drink nothing but slim fast shakes you'll lose weight. The problem is keeping it off once you 'end your diet'. And that's the problem with diets - they always end. So you always put the weight back on. Always.

You are right fluff and that's what I have to take seriously. I have always done stupid fad diets and lost weight super quick but always put it back on again. A couple of years ago I was only eating 3 apples a day :eek: the weight fell off me and within a couple of weeks I was at my target weight. As soon as I started eating normal foods again I put the weight back on.
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moneypenny21

Sammie - I did weight watchers and lost some weight on it (less than a stone), but looking back now (just found my size 12 jeans that I wore at my lowest weight) I remembered feeling starving alllll day as its basically just calorie counting wrapped up in a fancy way. Slimming World - I lost 2 stone on when I was younger, never felt hungry and ate a chocolate bar every day. I'd never recommend WW as the weight piled back on quickly and I think it actually wrecked my metabolism! I'm currently doing some vague version of SW but within limits of what I can actually manage and I'm losing weight slowly - if I stuck to it rigidly it'd be falling off me. So I'm seriously pro-SW and never ever hungry as there is always a snack in the fridge I can have for "free" on it. The other thing I didn't like about WW was that a banana was 2 points and a milky way was 2 points. So at no point ever would I choose a banana! Anyway, that's just my 2 pence worth but fluff is right (I seem to say that a lot on this thread, is fluff the oracle I wonder?! ) about life style choices. If I started doing aerobics 7 nights a week and didn't change my diet, I'd lose weight but it isn't sustainable long term for me, whereas 3 walks a week definitely is sustainable. Good luck with whatever you decide