Andie and I both joined Weight Watchers today. We both already needed to lose some weight before the pandemic hit, and we've both not taken great care of ourselves, so we needed to do something a bit more "drastic". Previous attempts were proving hard to stick to or not particularly effective, so we wanted to go with something that was a bit more likely to work.
Neither of us have done Weight Watchers before, but we both had success with Slimming World, so we figured we'd likely have similar success here over the long term. We've both made a 9-month commitment to the program, so we're in it for the long haul — and we figured that with Weight Watchers, we're probably more likely to be able to stick with it, even if we feel like being lazy about it.
Weight Watchers, you see, is a lot more widely supported than Slimming World is. You can get Weight Watchers ready meals, desserts and all manner of other stuff in regular supermarkets, whereas Slimming World ready meals, sauces and the like were Iceland exclusives. Likewise, you're seemingly a lot more likely to be able to find out how many Weight Watchers SmartPoints something is worth than figure out its Syn value on Slimming World, so tracking everything should hopefully be a bit easier.
Essentially, what I'm saying is that Slimming World is the Linux of weight loss programs — it works very well, but you have to put in a bit more effort and it's not nearly as widely supported. Weight Watchers, meanwhile, is Windows; it's widely supported, does the job and is relied upon by a lot of people. Hopefully it's not as prone to whatever the dietary equivalent of crashing and performance issues are.
Anyway, that's the plan. We're starting in earnest from tomorrow, and I'll be interested to see how things go. The first time I did Slimming World, I had an amazing amount of success and I'm keen to repeat that. It'll take time to get there, and that part of things is frustrating — but, well, none of us are exactly pressed for time these days, are we?
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