I think everybody is different. I know of people that lose while staying
within their points having the same foods day after day.

Others, like me, need to keep their metabolism guessing by varying their
meals. When I get into a rut and have cereal for breakfast or salads for
lunch every day I stop losing. Once I shake things up a little I start
losing again.

On Slimming World the green, red, etc days automatically built the variety
in to your menus. I suspect that this plan also encouraged low, medium, high
and super high calorie days as a way of keeping your metabolism going.
Something like the wendie plan. So you could eat those multiple packs of
noodles because on other days you were eating low calorie foods as a way of
balancing out the high cal days. Does this make sense?

On the theory that as long as calories in are less than calories out, you
will lose weight, then you could eat your entire points allowance in junk
food and you'll lose weight. Not exactly the healthy way to do it though :-)
Much better to choose healthy options and have a variety of foods if for no
other reason than variety is the spice of life and will help a person retain
interest so be easier to stay on track.

I find if I eat a lot of one thing it's easier to become bored with it.

There's noodles and there's noodles. Not all noodles are equal in this
world. Some noodles are just that - noodles with nothing added. It's up to
you to add what you want for interest & flavour. You can add lots of yummy
healthy stuff that is flavoursome. BUT - buy something like Pot Noodles and
look at the ingredient list - salt will be in there and remember that salt
as given on the label you have to multiply to get the true level (is it by
4.2???) Alkso there's likely some fat added and lots of flavourings... Those
type of noodles should be consigned to the rubbish bin IMHO.

Cheers, helen s

Hi,

It can be difficult switching from one plan to another. My advice is to
forget what you learned with Slimming World and just concentrate on WWs.
I think my main problem with programs like SW is that IMHO, it doesn't
really teach you good healthy eating habits. Sometimes WW's isn't so
great either, depending on your leader, typified by questions like this.

There are two things WWs attempts to enable us to do:
1. Eat fewer calories than we burn off to enable you to lose weight.
2. Encourage healthy eating ie. Low  fat, high fibre, plenty of fruit
and veg, small quantities of good quality protein foods etc.

In my experience, until I changed my eating habits and learned to make
healthier choices, I couldn't keep the weight off long-term, although
initially I could lose a lot of weight simply by sticking to a very
boring diet. That is how diets like the Cabbage Soup Diet worked, after
all, and many people have accused the Atkins Diet of the same.

The other issue is that a good variety ensures you get all the minerals,
vitamins, fatty acids and other nutrients you need for good health and
plenty of energy. By sticking to one type of food you are risking
significant nutritional deficiencies, for instance, wholemeal bread
contains protein, but the body can only use that protein if it also has
the proteins from peas and beans. Beans on toast might therefore be
thought of as a perfectly balanced meal, but of course it's high in salt
and deficient in iron, vitamin C, vitamins D and E and essential fatty
acids. White bread is even worse - it's basically just starch, which is
OK as a fast energy source, but that's about it. And of course, "Energy"
is just another way of saying "Calories".

Personally, I wouldn't touch so-called "Super Noodles" with a 10 foot
barge pool. Have you read the ingredients and nutritional information
recently? Stuffed full of saturated fats and additives. A friend of mine
and I were looking at them recently (she's switched from SW to WW's
recently too - in fact, I thought you were her!). If you like noodles,
try ordinary Sharwoods Egg Noodles, and add your own Chinese-style
vegetables and maybe a few prawns, some Quorn or chicken. Amazingly
healthy and delicious.

Good luck - I'm sure you'll find WWs a lot easier to fit into everyday
life and I wish you the best.

so far as calories are concerned a calorie is a calorie and it doesn't
matter where it comes from. If you eat 2000 calories of bread it has
the same potential to put weight on or not as 2000 calories of
protein.
However what you eat will definately affect your metabolism, so it
really depends what you are comfortable with, and of course you should
be getting the right micronutrients etc.

Ray