Weight Watching

I have a g/f who briefly turned herself in to Weightwatchers recently in
order to encourage her clinically obese office manager to attend, which
worked well enough. I know Verdi also had a lot of success with them
recently. I have been reading through the diet plans and the points
system and counting up what one *should* eat in a day and how big
portions should be.

Bloody hell it's quite depressing how little we actually need to eat and
how much at each sitting. I calculate I would get 27 of their points a
day. A single BK double meal is over half of that. Cereal is counted out
in 30g portions, pour that out and see how little it is. Indian food is
atrocious, one could consume 20 points at a sitting.

Saving graces, beer isn't all that bad, M&S chicken drumsticks are on
the menu and Chinese is ok. My own weight is incredibly stable, given
the beer and wine intake amazingly so, but I don't pig out (diabetic). I
always gain ~5kg/10 days when I travel Stateside though. Counting it up,
no bloody wonder. Probably consume double the points over there, at
least.

Was wondering what the experiences of others is with food and going to
WW.

 

My weight spiralled upwards after quitting smoking in 2001, I now realise
that weight loss appears to be a harder battle to fight than quitting
smoking ever was.

 

LOL well batted that man!
Naturally it is part of the Great Plan to starve the 3rd world as a form
population control.

Of course you don't like food anyway.

 

It does look like starvation portions when you're used to a "normal"
sized meal, but I've noticed that it's quite possible to cut down the
amount of food and not be ravenous all the time.

After last week I thought I should cut things down a bit, so small
portions today left me pretty hungry by the time I got home, but same
again for another two days and it won't much matter. Once you get used
to it you're fine, but then one restaurant meal and your back at square
one.

 

Hmm, curry in Manchester Saturday perhaps then!

 

I was under the impression (correct me if I'm wrong) that there was
plenty of food to feed them, just in the wrong places?

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It's not our fault they can't get to Tescos - blame public transport
cutbacks

 

or McDonalds, I mean a bit of obesity would go down well in some parts of
the world

 

I play a little game with myself. I know that a)I don't believe that such
tiny portions will actually satisfy my hunger, and b)it takes about 15 or 20
minutes for the food to actually hit, appetite-reduction-wise. So, I have a
little bit of salad for lunch, with the proviso that, if I'm still hungry
half an hour later, I'll have some more. So far, this has worked well on
the workplace snacking front. Now I just need to sort out the large meals,
snacks and booze in the evenings, and get more exercise.

 

Champ says...

Who the **** wants to cut back on anything?

 

Well your bored and laid up, what else is there to do

 

Never happen. We have HIV3 sitting in the lab waiting

 

It does look like starvation portions when you're used to a "normal"

Yeah, but that doesn't matter 'cos once your home you can make up for it and
pig out and eat loads all night.

[just had a couple of pain au chocolats (always feel a twat saying that and
strangely, thats the first time I've ever typed it and it feels just as
wrong), to supplement my 'too busy to eat properly at work' diet today]

 

It looks wrong as well.

 

pains au chocolat, she said pedantically.

Ali

 

ITYF it's "typed pedantically".

 

True. You win that one. (Are we twins?)

Ali

 

<Does little 'I win I win' dance>
<Stops and thinks>

Dunno about the twins bit.
Describe your distinguishing features and I'll say if mine match.

 

I can, but I'm not, as that's not really the point.

 

Um, you're a boy, aren't you?

Ali