I know this blog is a little late to the game, I've been doing Slimming World for 10 weeks, but from now on, I'll try to post a blog every week after I've been weighed, so people can follow my weight loss journey.
I did a blog post in my main blog a 10 days ago, entitled "Slimming World: A Lifestyle, Not Just a Diet", which can be viewed at http://danielcollins1980.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/slimming-world-lifestyle-not-just-diet.html - So please, have a read, there's a couple of pictures of me on that post, to show you the difference between me last year and at the 9 week mark.
In 10 weeks, I've lost a grand total of 3 stone and 3 pounds, averaging a weight loss of 4.5 pounds per week, which is no mean feat. On my very first weigh in, I was very sceptical that Slimming World would work, but 10 weeks in, I can honestly say, YES! This week I lost 3 pounds, which I wanted to get myself rounded off to 17 stone, 3 stone away from my target weight of 14 stone. I will point out that you'll never be asked to reveal your weight to the group, the reason being is that a lot of overweight people are embarrassed about their weight, the only thing that will be revealed is how much you lose each week and how much you have lost in total. I'm not embarrassed about my weight, so I'm OK with sharing it with you here, on my blog.
My girlfriend Fliss and my step-son George are also doing Slimming World and have both lost a good amount of weight each. I won't talk about them much on my blog as this blog is about me, we all support each other and I think that helps us all with our journey.
The food is great, which is one of the great things about Slimming World, you can have as much or as little Syn Free food as you want and a lot of the meals that we eat are Syn Free, so we still have the same size portions of them as we used to. There are a lot of recipe books with all your favourite meals in them, from Spag Bol to Chilli Con Carne and from Burgers to Fish and Chips, so you can still have the food you used to eat, difference is that the Slimming World recipes for them are healthier, sometimes a lot healthier. I might add that the food might taste different from the full fat/sugar variants of them, but in my opinion, it doesn't detract from the enjoyment of the meal, which is another great thing about the food. Anyone who knows me will know that I love my food, so being on a diet that allows me to eat as much as I used to is an amazing part of this diet.
I know I've referred to it as a diet a couple of times, Slimming World is more of a lifestyle than a diet. What diet lets you eat huge portions of food and still lose weight? Exactly! Fliss, George and I get weighed in every Thursday evening at the 7pm at the Old Meeting Place in Bedworth with Nicci Montgomery as the consultant, she's really nice and really supportive, so if you live in the Bedworth & Nuneaton area and you want to lose weight, get yourself down there, join up and see your weight come off.
Another thing to have a look at is Tom Lawton's Syn Bin blog and group on Facebook, he's really entertaining, take a look: https://www.facebook.com/thesynbin/?fref=ts
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