Can someone explain to me how I can eat as much of certain things as I like

[Yourcoffinormine]

For example, I can eat as many Muller lights as I like, let's say the average Muller light has 100 calories in it, and I eat 5 of them in a day, what is the difference between those 500 calories and say 500 calories in a chocolate bar?

Do you have any evidence of that ?

I have read every magazine for twelve years have copies of every recipe book and been to every consultant training session and of the recipes I see 99.999999% have no ML in. Recipes posted by members might have ML in but not official ones, or no more than any other yogurt.

I have never made a SW recipie.

I follow the plan by eating lean meat, veg and potatoes/rice type of thing.

No Muller lights. No weird recipes.

Just good clean eating.

SW is about CHOICE

I guess @italiancortado that eating good healthy food in sensible portions is at the heart of every diet.

All I know is that I'm losing weight on it and two cousins have kept the weight they lost off for three and four years respectively. Because they've learned 'new' ways of cooking meals or have had to actually think about what they eat and why.

And no one forces anyone to eat ML (or yoghurt of any sort).

That's why I like it. I can work it around the items we, as a family, like to eat. I can serve the same meal up to my DS and DH, most of the time I don't have to faff about weighing bits and bobs out and I don't have to work out if certain things are within a number of points or calories. I just cook items on the free food list and I know the weight will drop.

I tried WW in the past with a lot of success but I found I became food obsessed. I knew the points value for everything I ate, every day. I found myself constantly trying to re-jig points.

With SW I have no idea what the calorific value is but if it's on the free food list I don't worry and because of that I've learned to just eat until I am full - which is what my slim DS does - and the weight is falling off. I just cannot eat as much as I used to now because the food I eat is filling.

That's one thing I like about it. My kids don't see me weighing stuff out and counting calories. They see me eating meals that they eat, piled with vegetables. They have full fat dairy and I have fat free but it looks the same. They know I'm on SW to lose weight but as far as they are concerned it just means eating fewer biscuits!

I'm looking in my SW book now. There is a mention of 'split pot' yoghurts which have 6.5 points each. That's it.

The weird Mueller obsession on here has got to end!