Joining in the conversation about SW, I did it a couple of years ago and lost 3 stone which I kept off until lockdown. For me at first it was a really good way to start watching what I was eating - I’ve always had relatively healthy meals but snacks have derailed me. Starting off with not having to really worry about weighing stuff (obviously some things you still have to weigh on SW but not everything) and making sure I only had 15 “syns” worth of treats really worked for me.
I restarted SW in Nov last year, and found I wasn’t getting anywhere with it. Mostly because I wasn’t sticking to it. I’ve started calorie counting instead now, and I’m finding that now I have the foundations from my time with SW, calorie counting is much easier and far less restrictive. Yeah, I can’t eat unlimited amounts of pasta (lol) but I can have some oats for breakfast and a wrap or some bread with lunch within my calorie count. It’s making me realise that there are loads of foods I avoided unnecessarily on SW, which I’m really happy about.
The main thing that’s changed for me with calorie counting compared to when I tried calorie counting in the past (Pre SW) is I’m way more honest now. Before, I would totally look for the lowest number of calories associated to a food on My Fitness Pal and input that one (and wonder why I didn’t lose anything) whereas now I scan and weigh everything. Also figuring out my TDEE and basing calories from there is so much better for me than just going off what MFP suggested which was way too restrictive.
Weigh in tomorrow - hoping for another loss!