I posted the following on Rosemary Conley's online slimming club Community Chat board:
What do I mean by this? Well, let me use my work as an example! I'm part of a team of 4 bakers, each of us have specific times we work, but we are a team. I'm the afternoon baker - the others are either morning or they will do the odd afternoon if I'm on a day off or on holiday etc. Now if the morning bakers don't finish what they are supposed to finish, I do their job as well as my own - now I would say this isn't good team work (although on busy days it can't be helped). They are not working efficiently. Now this is the similar to dieting!
Rosemary's diets DO work - they really do BUT you have to be part of the team. The diet will only work for you, if you work with the diet plan. If you slack here and there, don't fill in your food diary (as I haven't been doing lately and not lost any weight), don't follow the recipes closely, nibble here, nibble there, the diet isn't going to work because you're not being part of the team!
There are some teams you really don't want to be part of - it may be very very difficult, but they won't do you any good! I can't be part of Team Crisps - why? Because once I start I can't get enough of them - they are an addiction! Last Monday I visited my parents and my dear dad buys multipacks of crisps and gives them out (as multipacks, not just one bag from them)! On Monday he was trying to give me some ready salted multipack of Smiths crisps, plus some other multipack of flavoured crisps. The flavoured crisps had ingredients I can't eat (wheat and dairy), so I said we would have the flavoured crisps (to keep him happy because he just enjoys giving people things - he's a darling)! I don't want to be part of Team Crisps because I know once I start I could eat all 7 packs in the multipack and my poor hubby and son wouldn't get a look in!
So come on folks - the diet WILL work if you work WITH the diet! Come on be part of TEAM DIET (or LIFESTYLE CHANGE/WEIGHT LOSS PLAN - whatever you want to call it).
To date I have lost 3st 8lb (50lb/ 22.67Kg) by working WITH the diet plan. I'm now in the green section of the BMI charts. It has taken me a fair few years to get into TEAM DIET mode, but once I 'joined' and worked WITH the plan, I lost the weight!
No excuses now - come on board and let's work together with the plan we're on!
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