3rd April 2014
If you don’t like where you are, then change
it – you are not a tree!
WOW it appears people have very mixed beliefs
and thoughts about Simple Start and Filling & Healthy ‘rules’, I was
involved in an interesting discussion yesterday online and all I can say is
what I believe, my own experience with my members and what I’ve been trained
in.
As soon as you open the first book you
receive in week one of joining, on the first page of the Simple Start booklet
it says, “No counting, no set portions”.
Then on page 4 it says things like “without the distraction of weighing,
measuring or counting this week” & “there are no portion sizes to think
about”. On page 6 it says again, “there’s
no need to weigh, measure or count any of these Filling & Healthy foods.”
There is further on in the booklet a page on
portion control that starts “even thought you don’t need to think about portion
sizes when you’re focusing on Filling & Healthy foods….”
So that first week in January when my members
tried it, I told them to “fill their boots” so to speak, not to be shy of
putting food on their plate and to trust that the plan would work, of the 500
plus people I weighed, only a handful didn’t lose weight and they admitted they
hadn’t followed the plan 100% so weren’t surprised.
Well surely that can’t work, eat as much as
you want and still lose weight – what’s that all about!
Yeah, how does it work! It’s mad I could easily sit and eat a Big Mac
meal, followed by a share of a KFC bucket and a couple of slices of pizza
washed down with a few pints! But hold
on, I can’t can I if I’m following Simple Start or Filling & Healthy
because NONE of that would be on the list.
How much does a Big Mac weigh and those fries, not a great weight, I bet
they wouldn’t even be equal to the weight of a jacket potato with half tin of
baked beans on yet the big mac and fries is costing 26pp (my entire daily
allowance!) and the spud and beans less than half of that. If I eat the spud I won’t eat again for a few
hours because I’ll be physically satisfied, if I eat the big mac and fries I’ll
be emotionally satisfied for the duration it takes me to eat it, but then I’ll
be physically hungry again in half hour, I can and have sat and eaten two big
mac and fries in the past when I’ve had a coupon giving me a bogof offer!
The Simple Start / Filling & Healthy food
list is not only really healthy but it’s satisfying too, because they are bulky
foods, often containing lots of fibre or water, which are low in energy
density. Most people tend to eat a
similar amount of food each day rather than a certain number of calories. By eating plenty of bulky, low energy dense
foods (i.e. from the F&H list) you should fill up faster without overdoing
it. (And yes there will always be the exception – if only so they can prove me
wrong).
My belief is, if you join a group like Weight
Watchers you want to lose weight, you want to change your bad habits into good
ones and feel healthy and happy, therefore why would you want to sit there
eating ten crumpets with a couple of tins of beans and poached eggs on?
Having said that if you did sit and do that,
you wouldn’t be eating anything else for a good long while, and you might be
spending more time thinking about how your tummy now felt and how close the
nearest toilet was!
The majority of my members including myself who
follow SS or F&H and don’t get a weight loss that week, know it’s more
likely to be because they didn’t stick to the list 100% or that they went over
on their 49 weeklies, than it is because they had an extra crumpet on their
plate, or two chicken breasts!
Personally I’ve found my finances help to
keep me in check with sticking to F&H, even if my stomach could cope with the
copious amounts of food my eyes/head wished it could on occasion, my purse can’t
afford to buy that amount of food! My
shopping bill is already large enough without doubling up on the quantity I buy
of F&H foods!
I eat to my appetite most of the time, I
listen to my body, and if I overeat my body feels sluggish. I know what a plate of food “should” look
like! However some days, such as when I’m hormonal, my appetite is through the
roof and I have no concept of how much and neither do I can what I SHOULD eat,
I just want more, I’m like an Hormonal Oliver Twist in the kitchen but instead
of talking to Mr Bumble, I’m talking to
myself! If I wasn’t following F&H, I’d
probably whom I kidding with probably, I mean definitely go off track, I’d
start by having a bag of crisps and a bar of chocolate to satisfy my mind, a
little of what you fancy and all that, so there’s 10 or more ProPoints gone,
then I’d go back in the kitchen for another bag because now I’m physically hungry
too, so I’d add a couple of slices of bread and butter to it, oh dear that’s
just took me well over 30pp. My brains
telling me I can have anything I want as long as I ProPoint it, so I want junk
food, any logic that’s trying to tell me that’s not going to fill me up is
being bitch slapped by my hormones and told to shut up!
Now if I was following F&H on that same
day, yeah I’d have started the day with 2 crumpets, 2 eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes
and bacon medallions. For lunch I’d have
had Salmon, boiled potatoes and roasted vegetables then for tea I’d have gone
for a couple of brown Warburton thins with a pile of ham and salad on it. Then I’d have gone to bed physically
satisfied and a little bit more hormonally balanced because that food has
helped to balance out my blood sugars!
Funnily enough this is kind of how my week
has been! That F&H day was
yesterday, whereas Monday and Tuesday, I thought I could do F&H on
hormones, it didn’t work out very well, Monday I ended on 58pp and Tuesday 48pp
and that was me TRYING to stay on track, however fighting a huge appetite and a
bitch load of hormones – I lost as you can tell. Yesterday even if you were to ProPoint it,
comes out at 26 – spooky and that was without even trying! Now normally I struggle to stick to 26pp a day
– what’s that all about?
When I eat good Filling & Healthy food, I
get full up faster, I feel better for it and I don’t seem to be thinking about
food all the time and craving all the junk.
That’s my take on it all anyways, of course I’m
always more than happy to hear your views….
Have a great day BeYOUtiful and remember to
Eat Gorgeous.
Healthy and Happy all the way. xx
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