i really sympathise here i was the same last year. i honestly now regret doing weight watchers. the reason for this is, about 6 years ago or so i lost about 5-6 stone on atkins, i still needed to shift a little bit and never did it, i ended up having some problems and reverted to type and reached for the comfort food, i didnt care the weight was coming back in fact i liked it. stupid when i look back!
this time around i had gained even more than before and started off on atkins, i lost about a stone, but was doing a lot of socialising back then and figured that ww would allow me to go out more and fit the diet in with the lifestyle, and for that it was a godsend. all the f&b pasta dishes were low pro points and tastey, i tried simply filling (filling & healthy as it sometimes called) but the lack of portion control discipline was bad for me. i was overdosing on carbs right left n centre. i became ridiculously addicted to oats so simple which were 'free' on simply filling but still not good for you if your eating 4 to 6 packets per day.. so after ditching ww i went back to atkins where i am now.
i said i regret doing ww but in someways it plays its part. Even in the old Atkins answer book that i have Dr Atkins said that any diet plateaus and when it does it might be worth switching to a low fat diet for a time and then returning to atkins when that low fat diet does the same. so even Dr A knew that they had their place. It was good in a sense of having a weigh in, nothing like going to weigh in to galvanise you into not cheating, and also good to make friends, i met a really good friend there! although we both do atkins now lol
its just down to resolve at the end of the day. last night i was sooooo close to cheating, i think the low carb ketchup i bought is causing me to crave sweet things, so i battled myself and made myself a cheese and mushroom omelette. i shouldnt have been hungry after the mixed grill i had eaten, weighed myself this morning expecting a gain and lost 2 lbs. Sometimes we are really really strong and other times the slightest thing can make us cave and then we beat ourselves up because we have screwed up. Try to figure out what is making you reach out for something. for me it was sitting alone in the evenings watching tv. so i decided to knit, i have knitted everyone now a fancy scarf or 3, it stops me reaching for the chocolate or even the atkins chocolate etc. It didnt even help having my son to watch tv with because he would go and get his goodies to munch on leaving me to drool.. Thankfully atkins does dull the cravings. Good luck honey, try to stick with it and stay away from the things that trigger the pangs for something nice. hard i know, but worth it!!
