When you start slimming world the first time, you get a pack with all the things you need to start the diet, one of the things in the pack is a document called something like 'your fabulous first week'.
I have never started SW with a fabulous or fantastic first week usually I either gain weight or maintain, on the odd occasion I have lost half a pound, for whatever reason no matter how hard I stick to the diet, if I have been off it for a while I just don't seem to lose weight that first week back.
I would like to say to anyone who has started SW for the first time, that if this happens to you, it will eventually come good. Stick with it, keep your food diary and bask in the fact that if after 4 weeks you haven't lost weight SW will give you your money back as long as you hand in your diary each week. I have not yet, despite my history of poor starts, been able to squeeze a penny out of them!
Now back to this week, I am sure you can tell from my absence that I lost the plot a bit the other week, felt a familiar pattern emerging again, the pattern I was keen to stop when I started blogging about my SW escapades, 2 gains in 2 weeks - thankfully only 4 1/2 pounds not 7 this time but still a sure sign something needed to change.
I decided to stop with the targets, aiming for a specific weight loss seems to have the opposite effect, the most success I have had was when my only goal was to stick to the plan 100% and keep a food diary. So I have started that again.
I decided to use the online food diary on the SW website, it is quick and convenient and allows you to look up your syns by keyword - which is great when you can't think who makes something. There are elements I would like to change - it would be good to be able to group ingredients by recipe instead just a long list but overall I found it helpful, I even logged in at work to keep it updated.
So what was the net result of my efforts, I had 72 syns all week (and it was a bank holiday) and lost 4lb!!
My food diaries for the week:
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